Goodes and booing
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In light of that, I think that it's worthwhile reposting a small excerpt from a recent Guy Rundle article on the booing issue.
"That "what about me" reversal was perfectly expressed by the mother of the young girl Goodes reported, and later spoke amicably with. She thought Goodes should apologise and that would "make him a better person". The girl herself is unfussed and getting on with her life. Of course. Because she had already apologised and had it accepted, and is still a person-in-progress, not a lump of resentful scar tissue like some of the adults around her. Is that the greatest absurdity of all this? That the girl herself has renounced the act that others are still willing, in their thousands, to defend on her behalf?
No. The greatest and most vicious absurdity is that in the week after everyone was billing and cooing over To Kill A Mockingbird, a black man can still be targeted by the mob for having contact with a young white girl."
It's probable that the line, "not a lump of resentful scar tissue like some of the adults around her", is the most applicable one here.Comment
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A few other vociferous booers in the general area were very quiet at the end too. After being told off and generally cheered over the top of for most of the evening.
Collingwood fans are just the worst.Comment
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There was some booing, but a lot of the Cwood people seemed to have a grip on the fact that they were at the SCG and not the MCG. It did start, but it got drowned out by us mob.If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhoodComment
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...and the brain areas that are distinctly human tend to switch off and the sections that are more lower primate and reptilian take control.Last edited by dejavoodoo44; 15 August 2015, 03:12 PM.Comment
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Last night I went to the Cats v Hawks game and Lake was booed after an incident with Hawkins. The Hawks supporters around me yelled out "Racist, Racist". They just don't get it do they?Comment
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Yes the Saints game will be the real test. My experience with their supporters down here is not good. It might help that they aren't near the top of the ladder anymore.
Last night I went to the Cats v Hawks game and Lake was booed after an incident with Hawkins. The Hawks supporters around me yelled out "Racist, Racist". They just don't get it do they?Comment
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Yes the Saints game will be the real test. My experience with their supporters down here is not good. It might help that they aren't near the top of the ladder anymore.
Last night I went to the Cats v Hawks game and Lake was booed after an incident with Hawkins. The Hawks supporters around me yelled out "Racist, Racist". They just don't get it do they?Comment
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I've been off the site for the weekend so I'm just catching up. But from what I saw at the game on Friday, the first time Adam got the ball (and it was down near the Pies supporter group) there was some booing. I mentioned that to my friends and they said ?but look, someone is being ejected" and it looked that way.
So when Adam was lining up for his first shot on goal - also down that end - I looked to see what the Pies supporters were doing. One was waving an Aboriginal flag and a group around him were clapping. If we are going to criticise we should give credit, too. That was a class act, right in the heart of Pies fans.Comment
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