Aboriginal Australian footballer booed continually by racist crowds

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Pretty livid about this. The guy is an Australian of The Year and looks like he may not be playing anymore because he gets booed at every stadium he plays.

The booing of Aboriginal footballer Adam Goodes from crowds during matches is a terrible thing for Australia, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has said.

Goodes, who is a former Australian of the Year, has taken leave after being subjected to continual and targeted booing, which intensified after he performed an Indigenous dance during a game.

Mr Scullion said he did not believe everyone booing Goodes was racist, but said there did appear to be an element of racism involved.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-...er-slams-booing-of-goodes-as-ignorant/6661424

Absolutely disgusting display by sectors of the Australian public.
 
Didn't take Shane Warne to be such an apologist cunt.

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They should be taking down names and photographs of the boo-ers and banning them from further matches.
 
Wasn't this the guy who told off a little girl during a match?

A little girl who was calling him racial epithets?

I feel bad for the guy.

Absolutely disgusting and shameful.
 
samn said:
They should be taking down names and photographs of the boo-ers and banning them from further matches.
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A 13 year old girl called him an ape and Goodes had her ejected. The mother now wants him to apologise to the girl claiming she didn't know it was racist. This is the sort of crap he has had to endure and now he is being persecuted for it.
 
Kenshin001 said:
A 13 year old girl called him an ape and Goodes had her ejected. The mother now wants him to apologise to the girl claiming she didn't know it was racist. This is the sort of crap he has had to endure and now he is being persecuted for it.
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Jesus. I feel so bad for the guy, must be horrible :(
 
I guess taking their home and almost destroying their culture wasn't enough, the subhumans don't have the right to play football in peace.

And will someone think about the poor racists who can't boo him anymore ?
 
Ugh. There's 71 indigenous AFL players and he's the only one that gets booed. But I've never seen such sustained asshattery from a crowd about a single player. There are many more people who are way more annoying dipshits in the AFL, but then again they're white boys. Can't fucking believe the ejected girl's mother wants him to apologize. Of course ape is fucking racist you twat.

Either way, it doesn't really matter who's right. This shit needs to stop if not because it's racist but because it's the absolute fucking height of jackassery and embarrassing us as a country. Sydney should just walk off the field if it happens again.
 
This is horrible. Like what year is it in Australia? When you make America look good in comparison, you're doing something wrong. Jackie Robinson is crying somewhere right now.
 
Australia gonna Australia

A friend of mine currently living there on his visit to London was pleasantly astonished, according to him, Australia is still pretty much segregated.
 
If people aren't booing at him because he's an aborigine, they what would they be booing him for? Is he a terrible footballer? Does he have a terrible reputation off the field? It seems like he's a pretty swell guy who helps troubled youth and won Australian of the year 2014. The fact that the booing "intensified" after he displayed an indigenous dance would make the source of their ire it fairly clear, yeah?
 
I thought we had come far enough as white folk that this shit didn't happen anymore. Don't get my wrong I know racism is alive and well, I just thought we were better at hiding it at least and not being so obvious as this.. I feel so bad for this guy. I thought this kind of shit ended with Jackie Robinson.
 
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.


*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
 
30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.


*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
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So, if I'm reading this right, you're saying Australians hate minorities that don't know their place and who don't quietly accept racial abuse?

This doesn't surprise me that much really, you can't have a White Australia policy for decades and not expect at least some of your population to hold deeply racist views.

That's not to mention the whole forcefully taking Aboriginal kids from their parents and forcing them into adoption with white families.
 
MMarston said:
I don't think Goodes has been shot yet.
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True but at least in the US he wouldn't be booed for being an aboriginal. He'd actually be able to play in peace and be booed for sucking. My cities basketball team has an Aussie aboriginal (patty mills) didn't take long for him to become a fan favorite. I can't imagine fans booing and yelling racist shit at a pro game here.
 
Hoping Geelong supporters set a good example next weekend and not boo him... its fine to boo a player once or twice in the thick of the action, but to carry on like that, every touch, every game makes you look stupid and feral. People should go to games to enjoy them and have fun, if a player annoys you that much, don't go. The people saying its not racist are wrong. There are racist people out there that are booing him, and joining in makes you part of them even if you have different reasons, it is clearly making things worse now. Anyways astounds me that people want to use the game to attack the players. Are fans getting bored with AFL, they have find some other kind of amusement?
 
Superflat said:
If people aren't booing at him because he's an aborigine, they what would they be booing him for? Is he a terrible footballer? Does he have a terrible reputation off the field? It seems like he's a pretty swell guy who helps troubled youth and won Australian of the year 2014. The fact that the booing "intensified" after he displayed an indigenous dance would make the source of their ire it fairly clear, yeah?
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The "argument" is that they boo a good player getting the ball cause he's not on their team.
 
30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.


*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
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That's pretty explicit. People need to learn there's no contextualizing cuntish behaviour. Just don't do it.

Also that rationale is textbook modern racist. This isn't a unique situation we have here.
 
So this is what someone I'm acquainted with was talking about on her artist/band page on Facebook...


Yeah... Congrats on that crowd pretty much proving a point.
 
The problem is that he does do things that can get players booed here (flopping, whinging to umpires, etc) so that the people booing can claim that they are just booing him because they don't like players doing that. (and I honestly believe a decent amount are booing because of that + others are already booing him)

However he's nowhere near as bad at those things as other players who don't get booed which the people booing refuse to acknowledge.
 
30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.
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Holy fucking shit did you even read what you wrote?

It's not racism, they're only booing him because he's from a minority.

That is AMAZING.
 
Risible said:
Holy fucking shit did you even read what you wrote?

It's not racism, they're only booing him because he's from a minority.

That is AMAZING.
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They're booing him because he's from a minority and he's outspoken on racism.

Not "They're booing him because he's from a minority and they're booing him because he's outspoken on racism"

Whilst it's still clearly racism, it's not as overt as this thread would have you believe.
 
30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.


*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
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Wow
 
Ochre said:
They're booing him because he's from a minority and he's outspoken on racism.

Not "They're booing him because he's from a minority and they're booing him because he's outspoken on racism"

Whilst it's still clearly racism, it's not as overt as this thread would have you believe.
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No, that's still some pretty overt racism.
 
Miles Quaritch said:
So, if I'm reading this right, you're saying Australians hate minorities that don't know their place and who don't quietly accept racial abuse?

This doesn't surprise me that much really, you can't have a White Australia policy for decades and not expect at least some of your population to hold deeply racist views.

That's not to mention the whole forcefully taking Aboriginal kids from their parents and forcing them into adoption with white families.
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Yep, that's about it. We love you regardless of your brown skin (as long as you quietly fit in and keep your mouth shut and don't rock our boat).

The White Australia Policy is irrelevant. It's an archaic and distant memory.
From the 70s to 2001 all sides of politics backed the idea of Multi-culturalism. We were an open and very tolerant country. Hell, when I was a kid I can remember we bullied a kid at school because he called our classmate "not a real Australian" just because he was a Vietnamese refugee. He was ostracised by 9 year olds for being racist.

But since the Tampa incident rednecks who were given short shrift before have been given a prominent voice in the conservative side of politics (and the Murdoch press). It's 'okay' to be intolerant now and no-one is allowed to call this bullshit out now.
 
rjinaz said:
This is horrible. Like what year is it in Australia? When you make America look good in comparison, you're doing something wrong. Jackie Robinson is crying somewhere right now.
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If it was America a white cop would come onto the field and shoot him for standing still, then get paid leave.
 
30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.

*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
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Ochre said:
They're booing him because he's from a minority and he's outspoken on racism.

Not "They're booing him because he's from a minority and they're booing him because he's outspoken on racism"

Whilst it's still clearly racism, it's not as overt as this thread would have you believe.
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30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.


*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
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So it's racism, but it's not racism racism?
 
30yearsofhurt said:
I don't think it's an explicit racism.
They're booing him because he's outspoken on people being racist. And because he's a from a minority.

That's not to say they condone racism. One western bulldogs supporter was reported by 20 odd other bulldogs supporters for racist language. And they're as bogan as they come.

They just don't like someone pointing out that we have a racism issue in this country. It's like they feel he's calling them racist. And one thing Australians don't like is 'other'* people calling them racists. Even when we're being racist.

The fact is we hate minorities who challenge the way we (the majority) behave. If someone white said we had an issue then it wouldn't be an issue. There'd be a quiet respect for their opinions. But a minority speaking out of turn and lecturing to us all just gets our gander up. No matter how much truth he/she speaks. If a Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Hawke or Malcolm Fraser had of said it people would see that as 'statesmanlike'.


*'Other' as in not one of the 'Australian' majority. Yes someone has already suggested he be deported from 'our' country.
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Prison rules are strange...
 
So just to clear this up.

Yes it is racism.
But not because he's aboriginal.
It's because he's seen as an outsider telling the majority that their society is racist.

That's why I used the term 'explicit'.

Mainstream Australia refuses to see our country as racist. Well it is. Goodes is right.
But for some reason we just refuse to see it no matter how obvious.
Hell I even had someone defending Dawn Fraser's comments to me earlier this month.
 
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