Some are claiming it's only ever happened to goodes, that's not true, and that's entirely relevant. Not sure where you asked when what happened. No. People are saying it became systematic with Goodes immediately following the AotY award and the 13yo girl incident and his becoming a spokesman on abo...

I think most people are casually racist. I would even say that of myself if I was honest. You prejudge a group of black youths more than a white one if they are coming towards you down the street. You prejudge them as less reliable with out evidence of the individuals record, just look at football,...

The worst part of all this is that now it's just about booing, so once again those tricky f***ers have weasled out of confronting their racism or hate of agitators. But this always happens: once enough people start calling others on their idiotic ideas, it seems like a gang press and then those with...

Whether or not you yourself are racist, plenty of Australian are. No, I don't have statistics. No, ok I can't even say that it's a majority. So go ahead and shoot my argument down. You can look around you and decide for yourself. But what you have written so far in these two threads suggests that y...

H : can you stand by while an innocent girl repeats the racist slogans of her parents/friends towards you? Would you just shrug your shoulders and get on with your work? Where did you pull that one from? Your arse?. How dare you denigrate the girls parents?friends without a shred of prove to go on....

Love this idea that anyone is being denied their rights to be an arsehole! Knock yourselves out, but don't you dare assume you are beyond reproach and don't deny us our rights to call you on it. A couple of people have just asked politely for you not to do it. If you do do it, then you deserve to be...

Tell me the lie Austinn? He didn't know she was 13? He didn't say on National TV that the face of racism in Australia is an 13 y.o girl? The lie is that claiming that Adam Goodes - by drawing attention to an innocent girl mindlessly repeating racist slogans in a crowd of adults directly at an abori...

CURLY wrote:Don't give me the try and live a day in his shoes because trust me if would be a piece of piss.

Hahahaha! Big words!

So you dont think he should be booed but you don't like being told what to do? Is that your position after all of those ramblings? The issue of the 13 yo has completely escaped you. I say it again. It is not about the individual girl. Her knowledge of whether or not it is racist is not relevant. Th...

the fact was that even Goodes acknowledged she probably didn't know it was racist. She need to be educated. You dont hang a kid for being ignorant. But that is EXACTLY Goodes did the next day. He knew she was a 13 y.o. kid and went on National TV and vilified her with his political statement of her...

Probably all members of the KKK You people are truly bizarre. You are like the Tories in the 70's who just shouted COMMUNIST at everyone and thought they were morally superior and had won the argument. Must be so nice to live in your glass houses. Signed the Grand Wizard of the Melbourne KKK chapte...

Imagine if he was gay as well. Fmd the threads on all footy sites would make the Internet's explode Probably explains why no current AFL player has ever come out of the closet. Curly: how about you try a day in Goodes' shoes? Get over it? You can't even get over umpiring decisions, let alone being ...

What about just taking a risk averse, pragmatic strategy into the game? Let's just say we have no idea whether the booing is racist or not, but we wont do it in Rd 22 anyway just in case. I mean is booing him really that important to people? Just grab a pie or a beer or something instead. I don't k...

How about just for starters, consider the years and years of downward dehumanising black people, is some cases using the exact same term. Compare that to the meagre history of dehumanising of white people. Sorry, I didn't realise the whole issue was one of volume. I thought it was about how we trea...

why do you talk down to everyone? I understand how being called an ape is upsetting to Adam. I understand how he regards it as a racist taunt. Just because people don't agree with you does not mean that they are in denial. You think that everyone who boos adam is racially motivated to do so. I don'...

I actually don't think that if you boo Goodes you are automatically a racist, and I think it's unhelpful to bring absolutes like that into the argument. Many of the people who hate Goodes do so because he is an outspoken black person, but that doesn't make them racist. So agree with you on this poin...

Bunk_Moreland wrote:lol Con eloquent.

When confronted he called me a member of the KKK.

yeah wish I had that fantastic reason.

Quick I have an alternate view, call me a RACIST.

Hurry or I might have another alternate though on the christ child Goodes.

You people are bizarre

Playing the man, not the ball.

Dear me, never has there been a clearer case of people deliberately missing the point than some on here. To even imagine that a white person being called an Alpaca in Australia is the same as a Black person being called an ape. That is pure ignorance of the issue. I'm not hysterical for pointing tha...

Here's where I stand: Goodes has evolved into what he is due to the vitrol heaped on him over time from the stands. Now the people on the stands condemn him for it. I can see the difference between people booing for a push in the back or because they they think the player is a flog or because they h...

True Believer wrote:By the way, what is "Goodesy" a victim of - being a millionaire footballer?

Hahaha! Ye gods! Is this actually a serious question?

Goodes is now having a few days off. Obviously really effecting him. And he isn't a sook IMO for doing that because none of us know how he is feeling. True. Most of us are lucky enough not to be born black in this country, to be vilified and racially abused almost every day. This is the sad lot of ...

You don't have to be black to be hated for being a big head/loud mouth/wanker... But it helps!

OK then, I still stand by my original statement, but how about "Ask anyone which black players they don't like..."

It is designed to imitate violence, thats what war is about. Dont know what part of Europe you are from, but people have died because of players inciting violence from the crowd with gestures like this. I was in Krakow and the two teams there graffiti the walls of the city with hatefilled racist sl...

As for the dance: It is designed to imitate violence, thats what war is about. Dont know what part of Europe you are from, but people have died because of players inciting violence from the crowd with gestures like this. I was in Krakow and the two teams there graffiti the walls of the city with ha...

Is Islam a big part of AFL? How many Muslim players are there in footy? Has there been historic abuse of Muslims at the footy? Maybe not Houli, but perhaps in a generation's time we might see a Muslim player react to the prejudice they cop daily. and what the f*** is Brindal? Still, I disagree with ...