Some people, such as Rita, encourage this vilification by stating that that 'It's not all based in racism.' The reason why many people boo is up to them. You'd have to go an ask each one of them. True. Its not all racism. But Rita is playing with words. I don't think anyone in the AFL is saying that it's entirely racist. What they're saying is that there is a racist element. And it's ugly. I don't think even Rita would deny this.

Whatever the 'reasons', it would be better if the vilification stop. All of the players, including all of the aboriginal boys, are sensing that there is a racist element to at last some of the booing. It's gone on long enough.

Leo, Goodes had no control over the heavy handed treatment given to the young Collingwood fan that night two years ago. That wasn't his doing. We need to encourage the vilification to stop. It's ugly and not beneficial to the sport.

Goodes is back this week for the Geelong game. Those who want to continue booing Goodes until they run him out of the game are going to end looking pretty silly as the season continues.

One contemptible lefty method of lying is by implication.
For instance, the Hound, on another thread, did not say that coal powered power stations were financed by government funds. He challenged us to name one that was not, to imply that they all were.
Foxy cannot point out any fact, in my post, which is not soundly based, so implies it by her disingenuous assertion about not being entitled to “your own facts”. Being of the left, of course, dishonesty is the sine qua non of her approach.
In Shakespeare’s day, the words “left” and “sinister” were interchangeable. There seems no good reason for any change in this usage, which has nevertheless, occurred. I can only put it down to some effort by the left, like their recent attempts to deny that there was any such thing as “the left”, to imply that their views were somehow normal.

Fox,

Who the hell is that author, another you have Googled and post because his uninformed beliefs mirror your own. The Black Armband view of Australian history has been challenged and disproved many times before (and on here for you personally) but you still persist in ramming it down everyone's neck. This stuff is rot for instance,

"..the settlers who annexed Australia took a decidedly different approach. They culled the Aboriginals, killed them, sometimes by the thousands, stole their land, stole their livelihoods, and even stole their children. For 200 years after settlement, they subjugated the Aboriginals, denying them basic human rights (indeed, even outrightly denying that they were human at all until the mid-twentieth century), and relegating them to lives of impoverished insignificance."

What absolute tripe and you have the hide to presume to lecture many other posters on 'balance', claiming you are trying to 'educate' them.

You recently and at long last declared that you provide 'professional services' to migrant (and presumably asylum-seeker) advocacy.

Perhaps that goes some way towards explaining why you make a practice and a virtue out of diminishing and even decrying the contribution of Australia's early settlers, while always over-estimating and lauding the contribution of migrants. Migrants who apparently are without blemish, and immigration policy and multiculturalism that have no downside either. Excepting that you would throw open the gates in order to complete the 'endless-diversification-that-Australia-has-to-have' to cleanse it of the 'White' inheritance that your leftist cultural elitism (the left's self-loathing cultural cringe) finds so offensive and repugnant.

On a number of occasions you have also made oblique references to your role, past or present is uncertain, in 'educating' and 'informing' school children. Mercy!

Dan, there is a racist element right through society, particularly in the attitude of many coloured people to white people, and it is unlikely that it can be stopped, and particularly not by the performance of people like Goodes. He did not control security, but he pointed the kid out to them, like the big sook that he is, and made the ridiculous claim that it was racist to call him an ape.
The girl was simply barracking against an opposing player, and his race did not enter into it. She was surprised when she learned that the dunces regarded it as racist, and made it clear that it was not so intended by her.
You are very partisan, Dan, and backing a loser.
Otb, the vociferous Yank, whose link was posted by Foxy, does have a basis for his garbage in the Redfern speech by the Slimebucket. Previously known as Paul Keating, he dreamed up the name for someone else, but it fitted him so well that he has worn it ever since.
The Yank no doubt, alienated himself in his own society, and is now in the process of doing the same here with his racist attitude

I guess it is inevitable that on a public forum such
as this one there will be posters who cannot defend
their position with facts or reason and therefore
resort to attacking their opponents either through
labelling, straw man arguments, name calling,
offensive remarks, and anger.

Posters who are more interested in condemnation than in
explanation. Explanations seems tantamount to sympathizing and
excusing. This however all too easily leads onto the
questionable practice of stereotyping which can encourage
counter-stereotyping and the result is usually a complete
breakdown in communication.

Then of course there's also those who have a
decidedly jaundiced and unreal
mind-set about - "black-armband history," "multiculturalism,"
"asylum-seekers," et al.
They view any discussions that try to present
historical facts and government
policies of that time as - "sledging" Australia, and distorting
history, and being unfairly critical. Despite the fact that
this information is part and parcel of
this country's history and is available
in state, national, and local libraries.

I try to avoid reading their posts or responding to them.

But I suppose if the right buttons are pushed often enough
one needs to respond.

One needs to remember that these people -
hidden behind a computer screen are prepared to engage in
public virtual stonings - and diminish themselves in the
process.

That seems clear enough, Foxy, you have no facts to back your position, so settle for a general dissertation, denigrating those who disagree with you, with no valid basis for your assertions.
If you would like some well researched facts on aborigines, keith Windschuttle has written some excellent books. Let us know, when you have read them, what you have learnt.
You say: “One needs to remember that these people -
hidden behind a computer screen are prepared to engage in
public virtual stonings - and diminish themselves in the
process.”
How vacuous you are.