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“all indigenous people should let the massive inequality and discrimination they face everyday slide off like water on a duck’s back.”
See that all bit? Epiquin wasn’t just talking about Goodes.
Time to make a stand! Why I boo for freedom
I agree.
Problem is it has to stop. Those people might not want to be labelled as racist, should just stop. People are going to assume otherwise from now on it seems.
Time to make a stand! Why I boo for freedom
I think that is a strong possibility. I wouldn’t care if they do, good on them.
Why Adam Goodes doesn't deserve to retire to boos
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/adam-goodes-has-won-only-11-free-kicks-this-season-is-the-perception-really-a-reality/story-fndv8ujy-1227460722688 @Greg Pointing a gun at someone hasn’t ever been in someone’s culture…
The real problem is hidden when you boo Adam Goodes
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/adam-goodes-has-won-only-11-free-kicks-this-season-is-the-perception-really-a-reality/story-fndv8ujy-1227460722688
He isn’t getting all those free kicks or what have you…
[VIDEO] Jetta performs war dance in Swans' loss
He’s been booed the entire year, weeks before he ‘threw’ the spear….an imaginary sharp pointed spear that killed an imaginary enemy…
[VIDEO] Jetta performs war dance in Swans' loss
Carey got booed after an affair with another player’s wife. Matthews barely got booed.
Neither have gotten booed for the length at which Goodes has, in terms of actual ‘boo’ or game after game. Which is what leads me to believe there is a racist minority.
The real problem is hidden when you boo Adam Goodes
Stupidity. Because a firearm hasn’t been a part of anyone’s culture. Ever.
AFL boss says Goodes booing must stop
That’s idiocy. Look at my comments I’ve replied to a number of people like you are using a number of different excuses to justify the booing of Adam Goodes.
Jetta wasn’t “recruited” to do the war dance he wanted to do it in Indigenous round but never kicked a goal. He probably hoped for better in his home town of Perth and realising he was incorrect, wanted to do it then and there.
If you can tell a 13 year old girl from a mile away I’m shocked and suggest perhaps you take a think about that statement and why I don’t think you’re a genius at knowing people’s ages.
The idea that Goodes incited the crowd is idiocy. In any case, he did that to Cartlon. How many Carlton supporters have been at the other 16 games the Swans have played when he has been booed?
AFL boss says Goodes booing must stop
His extensive work in the indigenous community e.g. The Goodes O’Loughlin foundation I’m sure half of the people on the Roar haven’t heard of.
There is no communal desire to racially vilify Adam Goodes
Thankyou. This is what I have been saying and why it can’t be completely without racial elements because Goodes is standing up for something we the Australian society can’t suck it up and make better of themselves.
There is no communal desire to racially vilify Adam Goodes
Read what I said above. If you had a thirteen year old girl and she was being bullied, would you want her 13 year old friends to speak up? Of course you would. They would also know the difference between bulliying and having a joke.
Why Adam Goodes doesn't deserve to retire to boos
His behaviour? You mean pointing out a girl who made racist comments, to which, he would not have known his age? You mean racism, a form of bullying we get kids to stand up to at pre-school and kindergarten that it shouldn’t be tolerated, that this 13 year old girl should have known better?
Why Adam Goodes doesn't deserve to retire to boos
It’s not over used it’s the truth. Tell me why a minority aren’t booing out of racist prejudices?
Time to make a stand! Why I boo for freedom
Dermott Brereton was a cheeky player who did a bit of niggling, therefore a possible reason to why he was being booed. Cheeky also often comes across as arrogance which Aussies don’t like for the most part.
Eagles in war on racist behaviour
Well not to West Coast anyway. Fremantle would be a better fit IF he does want to go home.
Eagles in war on racist behaviour
It is absolutely hilarious and should remain.
Not to begin mentioning the soccer-likeness …
Rule changes to improve the game
Don’t watch many of the Tigers games, but do remember him being of that ilk. It’s just a joke that so many don’t seem to want to do it.
Rule changes to improve the game
Oh so we’ll just let 13 year old girls who yell racist abuse at people roam free. What she yelled comes from somewhere. There is a source, she hasn’t just made that up.
Then there is the issue that Goodes would not have known her age, if not not have actually seen her before he pointed to her.
We ask our kids from pre-school age to stop bullying and speak up. She would know better by her age – I know it was taught to me. Racism is just an upgraded form of bullying that needs to be stopped. N
AFL boss says Goodes booing must stop
Derm was quite cheeky. Some may have felt that rubbed the wrong way.
Eagles in war on racist behaviour
@jax The sniping comment is exactly what that refers too…
The real problem is hidden when you boo Adam Goodes
I really didn’t need to go and watch it again, I watched the game live. For argument’s sake, I did go back and watch it.
He used his body, something heaps of forwards do regularly and are incorrectly infringed (Cloke is a big one). His forearm was on his back but it is his body that the the momentum. You could break your forearm by trying to push someone over with it by only using one arm.
Might I add you are actually allowed to use your forearm in any case.
Laws of the game;
Permitted Contact
Other than the Prohibited Contact identified under Law 15.4.5, a Player
may make contact with another Player:
(a) by using their hip, shoulder, chest, arms or open hands provided
that the football is no more than 5 metres away from the Player;
(b) by pushing the other Player with an open hand in the chest or side
of the body provided that the football is no more than 5 metres
away from the Player;
…
A Player makes Prohibited Contact with an opposition Player
if the Player:
(a) (a)makes contact or attempts to make contact with any part
of their body with an opposition Player in a manner likely to
cause injury;
(i) above the shoulders (including the top of the shoulders
or bump to the head); or
(ii) below the knees.
(b) pushes an opposition Player in the back, unless such contact is
incidental to a Marking contest and the Player is legitimately
Marking or attempting to Mark the football;
(c) holds an opposition Player who is not in possession
of the football;
(d) unduly pushes, bumps, blocks, holds an opposition Player or
deliberately interferes with the arms of an opposition Player, who
is in the act of Marking or attempting to Mark the football;
(e) pushes, bumps, holds or blocks an opposition Player when the
football is further than 5 metres away from the opposition Player
or is out of play;
The real problem is hidden when you boo Adam Goodes
Callnig the girl out was the correct thing to do.
If your kid gets bullied, do you want them to just sit there and take it? Or do you want them to call it out? Racism is a form of bullying, in the most extreme form so I think he was well within his right. If you choose to go to a game and call things out you are in a public place. The girl knows at the basest of levels to not bully – kids are taught that at pre-school. Many don’t mature.
Time to make a stand! Why I boo for freedom
They tried that with some of the cricket didn’t they? From memory it worked quite well.
Rule changes to improve the game
Agreed.
There is no communal desire to racially vilify Adam Goodes