Knowing when you’re being racist at the football can be difficult nowadays. I can understand how this can be a little tricky for some of you to get your head around, so to help out I decided to put together this guide. You’re welcome.
I am being racist when…
1) I continue to boo an indigenous footballer despite being aware that he believes my booing is racially motivated and finds it deeply offensive. I don’t believe this is enough reason to warrant stopping.
2) I justify my booing of an indigenous footballer by asserting that I’m doing so for various other reasons unrelated to his race. Therefore I believe I’m justified in continuing to engage in behaviour he finds deeply offensive.
3) I believe that being told to stop engaging in behaviour that an indigenous footballer finds deeply offensive is an authoritarian attempt to stifle my beliefs, so I will continue to engage in that behaviour because I have a high moral standards.
4) I believe that engaging in behaviour that an indigenous footballer finds racially offensive can be justified because he previously told officials that a person in the crowd racially abused him, and that person turned out to be a 13-year-old girl.
I will continue to engage in the behaviour he finds racially offensive to make a stand for all of the kids out there who are racially abusing people before reaching the age where it becomes wrong to racially abuse someone, whatever that age happens to be.
5) I am not booing an indigenous footballer for racist reasons; it is because I don’t like him for other reasons.
Yet I understand that other people are booing him for racist reasons that he finds offensive. However I shall continue to boo him for my own personal, non-racist reasons to make an important stand – because free speech, or something.
6) I am booing an indigenous footballer because I find an indigenous man performing an indigenous war dance during an indigenous round aimed at non-indigenous people that are booing him for being an indigenous person highly offensive and threatening.
7) I believe it is more important to vocally defend the people who are booing an indigenous footballer for non-racist reasons then it is to put a stop to the people who are racially abusing him.
8) I continue to boo Adam Goodes.
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