For bob and cue -
I have said continuously on this and the other thread that this isn't about what a 13 year old, knowingly or not, said. The issue is beyond whether a young girl said something offensive or racist.
So feel free to change what you said when your arguments don't hold up :
"But to say it's OK to call a black man an ape after understanding their history of being categorised as apes because they were thought to be sub-human and not see that there could be an issue there is "seriously wrong".
You obviously do think the word Ape can only be about race.
Again you're confusing the discrimination of aborigines in general with this incident which IT ISN"T. Don't cloud your judgement.
I would like to take you back to my opening post:
What I have found the most interesting about the Goodes incident is how many people made excuses that made him look like the antagonist. Almost as if making racist remarks about indigenous people is no big deal. Treating him as if his feelings, his views (and everything about him) is unimportant. And I am staggered at how many people know so little about the history of racism a history that so many generations of indigenous people have had to go through.
NO, no no no no. Just coz' Goodes found it racist doesn't mean that the intent was to racially attack him. The intent was to abuse him for being so hairy. You give that girl so much credit that she should know about the history of racism.
What BOTH incidence highlight is how little respect we give our indigenous people in this country.
What the first incident highlight is we jump to conclusion. Eddy I can see screwed up.
Would we laugh or sneer at a Jewish person who had been at the end of a racial (knowingly or not) comment? Would we tell a disabled person to grow up or chant 'sticks and stones...'?
There's where you don't get it. Anything can be offensive. Do you never have any misunderstand between your family? Supposely I bring up mars bars, not knowing the history of this mom who lossed her son thru a peanut allergy. She can take offense, but doesn't follow the intent was there to hurt her. Supposely I said Jane who's a Jew has a great oven and she takes that to mean her parents were suffocated in the holocaust.
You're again putting up straw mans saying that people should be allow to be insulted. No one is saying that so stop arguing against points never made.
It's an example of a much larger indifference we have to our indigenous people.
See you're clouding your judgement and arguing an entire separate issue. Do indigenous people get abused racially and mistreated in society. Sure they do. This is not what you're arguing. You keep confusing yourself with what I consider a misunderstanding.
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