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.

[watta*drama*queen]

And don't bring other players into it.

[gleee58]

this article sums it up well.... I've selected a segment to post

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/adam-goodes-its-racism--and-its-an-unprecedented-campaign-of-bullying-...

When you press the speaker for what Goodes has said that is "political", it'll somehow meander back to him pointing at a 13-year-old girl in the crowd who called him an "ape" or Eddie McGuire likening Goodes to King Kong or the guy who was kicked out of Perth last week for saying he should "go back to the zoo" and how "political correctness has gone mad".

If this turd of an argument is a little more polished, you'll get the likes of the Herald Sun's Rita Panahi telling you people have been rubbed the wrong way by Goodes' reminding whites to "remember whose lands you are on".

Got it.

An Australian of the Year milks a few frees - doing exactly what other AFL greats like Steve Johnson, Joel Selwood, Jimmy Bartel, Jordan Lewis and Sam Mitchell regularly do - then he gives us a history lesson, so we boo him more than any other player in the history of Australian sport?

Really?

We all know what's going on. It started because Goodes is an "uppity" black who said things white Australia didn't like hearing.

It's now moved to an expression of power; people who know they can inflict pain without any ramifications to themselves - the very definition of a bully.

The fact one of Australia's best-known bullies, Alan Jones, has today added his voice to the hectoring of Goodes, serves only to confirm this observation.

People love to dismiss objections to this sort of stuff as "political correctness" but - just for a minute - replace that term with "emotional correctness".

Does the way Adam Goodes is booed every single minute, of every single game, more than any other player in the history of the sport ... does that feel correct? Does it feel right, to literally boo him into retirement?

In a nation that prides itself on a "fair go", the emotionally correct response is clear.

Adam Goodes is not being given a "fair go".

[go-tazz]

Reverse racism at it's best,(it's not his fault as he's Aboriginal so it must be everyone else that's at fault),

Goodes wont get a "fair" go as you state because he's not respected and continues to be his own worst

enemy.(he deliberately inflames things to stay in the spotlight,after all Buddy is now stealing his thunder

so he has to do something to get them to focus on him).

The football field is for playing football,(it should not be used for a player to deliberately use as a platform 

to push his own agenda and opinions that have nothing to do with football).

[serendipityricho]

Nicky Winmar started it all off many years ago..........................................Richo.

[gleee58]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

Nicky Winmar started it all off many years ago..........................................Richo.

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How can those who respond to racist taunts be the ones who start it?

[i-need-a-martini]

Thanks for that article glee, it sums up how many people feel - that this is out and out bullying.

Whether you believe (as I do) that he is being bullied for his race or whether it is because he has been inexplicably labelled a "sook" or whether it is because he has dropped a couple of balls - whatever - it is bullying on a massive public scale and the behaviour is indefensible.

This would not be accepted in any other area. So why are people defending the bullies?

Do we tell children who are victims "It's your fault because you shouldn't have fought back"? 

What sort of an education is this for future generations?

[i-need-a-martini]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

Nicky Winmar started it all off many years ago..........................................Richo.

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Started what?

This man was subjected to horrific racial abuse throughout his career and hardly a line was written about it. In his case it was not only the crowd but other teams that did this and they all went unpunished. And lets not forget the antics on the Footy Show.

But when he does something as basic as lift his shirt and point to his skin as if to say "Yes I am indigenous and I am proud of it" suddenly we all get into a tither about HIS actions. As if HE did the wrong thing.

Go figure.

[i-need-a-martini]

Another great article:

https://newmatilda.com/2015/06/01/not-so-level-playing-field-why-we-love-cathy-freeman-and-hate-adam...

I particularly like this bit:

...make no mistake: the boo-ing of Goodes is not about his on-field performance. It’s about his Aboriginality, pure and simple. Obviously, we can argue the toss on that all day long, but just as any individual has the right to pretend to hate Goodes for his ‘on-field behaviour’ (his two Brownlow medals were awarded as the season’s ‘best and fairest’ player, and he’s only been convicted of four infractions in a career spanning 17 years) the rest of us have the right to assume that the ferocity of that hatred indicates the depth of that person’s racism.

What’s most instructive about the growing hatred of Goodes is that by contemporary Aboriginal standards, Goodes is anything but a radical. He doesn’t seek publicity, he doesn’t court controversy. He supports constitutional recognition, while many in the Aboriginal community do not. He even served on the Howard government’s Aboriginal advisory council, a hand-picked board of advisers devised to replace the decimation of the democratically-elected ATSIC.

He is, to put it simply, quite mainstream in his Aboriginal perspective. But Goodes appears to have no tolerance for racism, and when it’s directed at him, he confronts it head-on.

The challenge is that it occurs on the sporting field, a venue which has long provided the perfect cover for Australia’s slipperiest form of bigotry - the ‘you can’t prove I’m a racist - I’m pretending to hate him for his footy’ sort of racism that has long polluted our ovals and stadiums. Boo-ing black sports stars has always been the preferred way for Australians to ‘hate the blacks’ without ever being held to account for it. Despite their obvious brilliance, we did it to Michael Long, we did it to Nicky Winmar, we still do it to Anthony Mundine, and now we're doing it to Adam Goodes.

But he's calling us out on it. Goodes has changed the rules. Apparently no-one has yet convinced Goodes that he’s still supposed to stand in line. And quite a few of us **bleep**ing hate him for it.

[iapetus_rocks]

How many other aboriginal players get booed?

Name one.

Goodes is not being booed because he is aboriginal, it is because he has behaved like an absolute wally on the pitch. He is reaping the rewards of his own aggressive and unsportsmanlike behaviour.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

How many other aboriginal players get booed?

Name one.

Goodes is not being booed because he is aboriginal, it is because he has behaved like an absolute wally on the pitch. He is reaping the rewards of his own aggressive and unsportsmanlike behaviour.

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Seriously? The last 2 posts before yours names a few.

Have you not taken note of other posts in this thread? Perhaps read post 177.

And then perhaps read the article I posted for more names.