Sick of it.

[dimelb]

Thanks for putting up the Robbo article Liz.
The really disturbing thing about it is the dopey responses from several people - I didn't go all the way down the list. Goodes is a troublemaker? Goodes is a racist? Get your knuckles off the ground, you people.

[jono2707]

Thanks for putting up the Robbo article Liz.
The really disturbing thing about it is the dopey responses from several people - I didn't go all the way down the list. Goodes is a troublemaker? Goodes is a racist? Get your knuckles off the ground, you people.

Fox Footy also posted the Robbo article on Facebook this morning, and some of the comments are awful. I hope Robbo sees it and calls some of the scumbags out on it......

[Reggi]

Seem to be a bit flip floppy in your POV there.

One minute you agree that implied racism boos "doesn't reflect the views of the entire Essendon supporter base"
Next you imply that "racism was behind the booing" (by a large amount of Essendon supporters at the game)

???

So?

[Ampersand]

Second Essendon supporter now accused of racially vilifying Goodes. Can those that deny there is a racial component to the Goodes hatred kindly remove their heads out if the sand?

[Reggi]

Greg Baum has just written a great article about this at Agesport / realfooty

[CureTheSane]

I'm not Reggi.

If I didn't re-post your post, his reply ti it would have been meaningless....

[CureTheSane]

So?

Just assumed that when someone posts an opinion about something like racism, it's a one that they stand behind.

I am happy to say that classifying the booing (by apparently a large percentage of the Essendon supporters at the game) as racism is well off the mark.
Accusing thousands of people of being racist based on booing a player is stupid.

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I have a proposal.
everything has been misinterpreted.
The boos came from a particularly loud group of Swans supporters who were calling gOOOOOOOOOds

[magic.merkin]

Second Essendon supporter now accused of racially vilifying Goodes. Can those that deny there is a racial component to the Goodes hatred kindly remove their heads out if the sand?

Did anyone specifically say it wasn't a component? Most denying were replying to it being the sole/major component. Which is bull@@@@, as Liz said, he;s been booed for years and years. Winning multiple flags, brownlows and having BOG games against your side will do that.

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Goodesy does play for frees though

Yep, he has got the sooks up. He has got off some interesting reports and he has had questionable judgment against other players.

Plenty of that will occur if you are the number 1 man for near 300 games in as much of an intense sport as ours.

Opposition fans will then grab at these straws for something, anything to pull him down. Sadly others resort to racist bigotry.

[Swansongster]

I'm not denying any of that, or disagreeing with you, just pointing out that they get booed by our fans.

Understood Doc. I'd like to think I reserve my booing for umpires (unless they are unconscious) and politicians but I am sure I would have booed James Hird and the Bombers last year if I went to that Swans game.

[Swansongster]

I have a proposal.
everything has been misinterpreted.
The boos came from a particularly loud group of Swans supporters who were calling gOOOOOOOOOds

"Booo-irdy" they were saying (to steal one of Smithers' lines)

[Ludwig]

This is an interesting article about the racial vilification of Adam Goodes that brings up some good points:

why-some-fans-are-challenged-by-goodesl

I imagine most Australians are not aware of just how serious racism is in America, where it goes beyond the dreadfully normal police brutality and murders which also occurs in Australia. In the US you can be forced out of Congress (Cynthia McKinney) framed for crimes you didn't commit, sometimes managing to overturn the verdict after years of imprisonment (Hurricane Carter), sometimes not (Muamar Abu Jamal). If you're a big enough pain you just get assassinated by the government (Martin Luther King).

We are not quite at this stage yet, but the fact is there are too many ignorant people, both here and in America, that just don't like 'uppity' blacks. What a shame that as we once again approach indigenous round, this deplorable behaviour has surfaced once again.

Never back down Adam, the most worthy Australian of the Year.

[liz]

I just came on to post a link to that same article. It is refreshing (and maybe a little surprising) to see an article like this in the sports pages of one of our national papers. In some ways, it is merely a longer version of Robbo's observation that some Australians just weren't ready for Goodes' appointment as AOTY. But it's interesting, nonetheless.

[Reggi]

I just came on to post a link to that same article. It is refreshing (and maybe a little surprising) to see an article like this in the sports pages of one of our national papers. In some ways, it is merely a longer version of Robbo's observation that some Australians just weren't ready for Goodes' appointment as AOTY. But it's interesting, nonetheless.

Many people need to grow up a bit on this issue. I notice Peter Fitzsimmons has written similar in the SMH

[desredandwhite]

It's a little disappointing, but not particularly surprising that so many people have those sorts of opinions (I'm not saying a majority of people do, but those who do are pretty vocal). As has been mentioned, one thing that IS pleasing is that more people are prepared to stand up for what they know is right. The Bombers member who was ejected on Friday night was dobbed in by a fellow Bombers supporter who wasn't prepared to tolerate it. Good on him for speaking out.

It's a curious mentality. There's a significant group of people who don't hate him because he is black, per se. They hate him because he is an indigenous person who DOESN'T KNOW HIS PLACE. there's a few typical comments online that seem to keep coming up:

Ape isn't offensive. Well, actually it kind of is. You're saying that he is an animal and nothing more. That's pretty racist. Not knowing or understanding why it's racist doesn't make it ok to say it.

If I said the same things he said, I would be branded as a racist. Well your people haven't had decades and centuries of disadvantages and oppression have they? So there is not the same weight of history.

[Reggi]

It is worth noting though that quite a few were reported and they acted on one