runner - What is so sad is that a representive of a people group can have such a victim mentality that the pc police, AFL and indigeneous industry castagate a young girl who should of been reprimanded and then life got on with

The event illustrates just how pathetic the whole politically correct crap really is. Footbrawlers in general love to flaunt their supposed uber-masculinity, however the fact that one can be reduced to tears by a young girl whose outburst could only ever be construed as slightly racist by the most fanatically one-eyed politically correct drone proves the clown is merely a namby-pamby mummys boy. The player and all who take his side should take a spoonful of concrete and harden up. If this is typical of what constitutes a matter of national importance, its no wonder the country is in the poo that it presently is.

A grown man felt the need to hold up to public ridicule, possible assault and life damaging impairment a potty mouth child. And the great and good breach all child protection protocols and abuse this child in the media whilst the same assiduously protect the Pommy Head Lopper. Surely this child abuse has criminal aspects?

McCackie - A grown man felt the need to hold up to public ridicule, possible assault and life damaging impairment a potty mouth child. And the great and good breach all child protection protocols and abuse this child in the media whilst the same assiduously protect the Pommy Head Lopper. Surely this child abuse has criminal aspects?

You may well be right. Personally I believe both the supposed racism & child 'protection' protocols are utter crap, but in this case one wrong unquestionably deserves another in response. Chucking a few child protection lawsuits around like confetti might just be what the doctor ordered to put the idiots back in their boxes. To be fair to the player, he may not have actually instigated all the ludicrous hoo ha that ensued, certainly nobody I've ever known of indigenous ancestry would be so thin-skinned. I suspect a few of the do-gooder lunatic fringe have been at play here, those clowns seem to have a knack of stirring up trouble then ducking for cover.

Charlton Heston's famous speech on political correctness delivered to the Harvard Law School is well worth listening to. Here it is,

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/charltonhestonculturalwar.htm

Well said, JP. Perhaps Secular Greg believes in secular miracles.

Greg, I am critical of Darwin’s ideas as misguided, Nineteenth Century philosophy that naturally lends itself to promoting racism. This is not to say that everything Darwin said was wrong, or that he was personally aggressive or lacking in sympathy to other people. Nor did ideas of racial superiority originate at this time. Only that justifications for racism increased markedly after the publication and popularity of this book, ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, Darwin C., 1859’.

In criticising Darwin in my article, I didn’t actually offer any positive proposal towards a solution. In this regard I could happily agree with the sentiments in your last paragraph. That is, we could teach our kids that we are one big family. We are all cousins, in that we are all quite closely, genetically related.

The problem is, however, that’s not what Darwin taught. (Darwin knew nothing of genetics. That was Mendel’s department.) Darwin believed that the non-white races were stuck at an early stage in their evolutionary ascent from the apes, having been preserved with those earlier levels of mental and moral development.

That we are all really quite closely genetically related is shown in the example of George ‘Snow’ Wilson and the kidney he donated to his Vietnam War mate, Bill Coolburra. Bill and Snow’s transplant compatibility would be surprising to most people, considering that evolution theory says that their respective ‘races’ were supposedly separated for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. You can get the full story (with a picture) here:
http://creation.com/blood-brothers

This kidney transplant story is an example of scientific fact, not evolution fantasy. It’s the kind of story that can help to unite us.

Michael Viljoen

The pain Adam Goodes felt was not caused by what the 13 yr old girl said. That pain has been inside Adam Goodes for many years. It was triggered by what the girl said but if he was truly comfortable with his own aboriginality it would not have affected him at all. That is not to say that the girl was not possibly trying to trigger his pain and perhaps she should have been dealt with appropriately for that but Goodes must take responsibility for his own feelings. There are many other indigenous people who would not be so affected by what was said because they have looked at the pain they have endured and dealt with it as an adult and not as a child. It no longer affects them.

Dealing with your past is incumbent on all adults and sometimes this requires professional help. The fact that Adam Goodes acted as he did in a very public way and then went on to tell us about his childhood experiences which was totally unnecessary looks very much like a cry for help. It does not help racial tensions when you try to silence everyone in the hope that your personal pain will not be triggered. It does not help society in general when people on the periphery identify with his pain and label him a hero for ‘standing up to racism’. He would be much more of a hero if he faced and dealt with his past. Perhaps then the 13 year old girl would have someone to look up to – if ever she has to confront the traumas of her past such as being paraded before all and sundry as a villain