Adam Goodes Vs the spreaders of hate

[karliandjacko]

We have people spreading the hate for everyone from the PM to the disabled and refugees everyday.

Today we have Adam Goodes, who truly lived up to his name.

[Anonymous]

what are they saying?

[nicnacs_4u]

Nice to re read the Mia's posts..things haven't changed in 2 years....he should learn to get over it imo

[go-tazz]

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@bluecat*dancing wrote:

I think Waleed Aly nailed it on the head on the Insiders program.

“I think it was the fact that this was some kind of cultural expression that some people found confronting,” Aly said.“There is no mystery about this at all. And it’s not as simple as it being about race, it’s about something else. “It’s about the fact that Australia is generally a very tolerant society until its minorities demonstrate that they don’t know their place. And at that moment, the minute someone in a minority position acts as though they’re not a mere supplicant, then we lose our minds. And we say, ‘No, no, you’ve got to get back in your box here’.

“And that’s why Adam Goodes ruffles feathers. It’s not ‘cos he’s controversial, it’s not ‘cos he’s a

provocateur,it’s none of that. It’s because he actually says, I’m going to say something…’ “What happens is the minute an Indigenous man stands up and is something other than compliant, the backlash is huge and it is them who are creating division and destroying our culture. And that is ultimately what we boo. We boo our discomfort.”

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That all happened on the football field,

95% of football supporters have probably never heard anything that he has said outside of the sport shows

so they would not know about anything else he has said/ commented on.

They boo because he's trying to intimidate the crowd and it's backfired on him,(plain and simple),

[iapetus_rocks]

"The one thing he should stop doing is trying to intimidate the crowd, . . . "

I aggree. When i saw him throw that imaginary spear into the crowd, I also saw one of the female spectators visibly flinch and recoil a little.

Then Goodes made that offensive arm/elbow gesture at the crowd which is just provocation.

He should, in my opinion, harden up and behave with a lot more proffessionalism than he has so far displayed.

I don't like the "ape" comments either, but you don't meet the most cultured of people at a football match anyway and he should not engage in activities which serve to inflame an already distasteful situation.

that's my 2 cent's worth.

[Anonymous]

That all happened on the football field,

lol

[Anonymous]

I don't like the "ape" comments either

its obviously insulting but i didn't  like the

way the situation was handled either.

a 13yo girl taken away by the police 

and questioned for hours without parents

being present.  obviously ppl still remember

that. 

[bushies.girl]

I'm with Alan Jones on this one

[j*oono]

People have forgotten a lot of things.  From the article -

''People don't understand how one word can cut me so deep,'' Goodes says in a video on the Australian of the Year website, before later adding: ''I haven't always been a confident, young man. I was shy growing up. I learnt about standing up for what you believe in.'' Now, there's standing up for what you believe in, and there's standing up in front of tens of thousands of people at the MCG and watching on TV at home.

But it isn't about that moment that makes Goodes a hero.

It is about the next day, when he took a call from a distressed teenage girl, and then asked via social media for the community to support her.

It is about how he handled Pies president Eddie McGuire a few days later after he joked on radio that Goodes would make a good promoter for the King Kong stage production.

It is about the way Goodes has used his own ugly, heartbreaking experience and turned it into the best possible tool to wipe out the stain of racism that is still there, even now.

It is about the GO Foundation he formed in 2009 with cousin and former Swans teammate Michael O'Loughlin to provide scholarships for indigenous students.

It is about the past year when he has been at the forefront of raising awareness of the issue of domestic violence.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/adam-goodes-the-right-man-for-australian-of-the-year-20140126-...

[Anonymous]

as go tazz said.

majority of people are probably not aware of

any of that.  they react to his conduct on the 

field.  

[bluecat*dancing]

I think that the bullies in the crowd need to be better educated and brought into line.