drake
First Grade
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When you're in the work place, which the football field is for these blokes,just use merkin. It's more than offensive enough. Tacking anything on the front of that word, whether it be white, black, Mediterranean Descendant, skippy, fat, skinny, short, ugly, dumb, gay or whatever is just plain idiocy.
Outside the work place it's a great way to start a punchup, sometimes with more than the person intended. Your dentist will rejoice.
I have been called a white merkin many times on the footy field, most especially when playing Cleveland St back in the day. A couple of my team mates came out unscathed; they were Koori lads. "Mate, they just like to bash you white merkins, don't take it personal."
No matter what it's not nice to cop racist abuse. Modern society might ignore it against Anglo-Celtic caucasians of english speaking backgrounds, but it still stings. Whether manifested as sadness, anger, contempt or frustration depends on the victim.
I have always strived to be imaginative in my insults, so a tacky racial slur is pretty low brow IMO.
I used to live near a Greek community, and had a lot of mates from Greek backgrounds. Strangely enough, a lot of them didn't tell their parents I was an "Aussie", because they were discourage from associating with non Greek Australians. It made me pretty angry to be villified based on race, especially by foolks who chose to be near us.
By the time I hit twenty, I had been called a white merkin, a Mediterranean Descendant prick, filthy gook and even dirty Aboriginal. When buying some Metho with a mate we were asked if we wanted some orange juice to go with it.
You see, I am an Anglo Aussie, but with black hair, dark eyes, off white skin all due to a speck of Chinese in my ancestry, which means I can fulfill many racial slurs. I can be whipping boy to everyone.
To wrap up my diatribe, racial surs are stupid and unnecessary.
I'm sure Dean Widders is not crying himself to sleep over this, but he is right to be angry that someone could use such an insult in a professional arena in the modern day.
This isn't maroubra vs Cleveland st, it's two professional sporting arena with millions of viewers, it's absolutely untenable. If Dean were to have called Brian a white so-and-so, I would be saying the same thing.
This crap just has no place in professional sport. If we can't get it out of sport, how can we hope to get it out of society in the main?
Outside the work place it's a great way to start a punchup, sometimes with more than the person intended. Your dentist will rejoice.
I have been called a white merkin many times on the footy field, most especially when playing Cleveland St back in the day. A couple of my team mates came out unscathed; they were Koori lads. "Mate, they just like to bash you white merkins, don't take it personal."
No matter what it's not nice to cop racist abuse. Modern society might ignore it against Anglo-Celtic caucasians of english speaking backgrounds, but it still stings. Whether manifested as sadness, anger, contempt or frustration depends on the victim.
I have always strived to be imaginative in my insults, so a tacky racial slur is pretty low brow IMO.
I used to live near a Greek community, and had a lot of mates from Greek backgrounds. Strangely enough, a lot of them didn't tell their parents I was an "Aussie", because they were discourage from associating with non Greek Australians. It made me pretty angry to be villified based on race, especially by foolks who chose to be near us.
By the time I hit twenty, I had been called a white merkin, a Mediterranean Descendant prick, filthy gook and even dirty Aboriginal. When buying some Metho with a mate we were asked if we wanted some orange juice to go with it.
You see, I am an Anglo Aussie, but with black hair, dark eyes, off white skin all due to a speck of Chinese in my ancestry, which means I can fulfill many racial slurs. I can be whipping boy to everyone.
To wrap up my diatribe, racial surs are stupid and unnecessary.
I'm sure Dean Widders is not crying himself to sleep over this, but he is right to be angry that someone could use such an insult in a professional arena in the modern day.
This isn't maroubra vs Cleveland st, it's two professional sporting arena with millions of viewers, it's absolutely untenable. If Dean were to have called Brian a white so-and-so, I would be saying the same thing.
This crap just has no place in professional sport. If we can't get it out of sport, how can we hope to get it out of society in the main?
