Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils

October 2006

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because most of them did not speak English.

Codie Stott's family claim she was forced to spend three-and-a-half hours in a police cell after she was reported by her teachers. The 14-year-old - who was released without charge - said it had been a simple matter of commonsense and accused the school and police of an over-the-top reaction. The incident happened in the same local education authority where a ten-year-old boy was prosecuted earlier this year for calling a schoolfriend racist names in the playground, a move branded by a judge "political correctness gone mad."

Codie was attending a GCSE science class at Harrop Fold High School in Worsley, Greater Manchester, when the incident happened. "She said I had to sit there with five Asian pupils," said Codie yesterday. "Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language.

According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn't understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher. "I said 'I'm not being funny, but can I change groups because I can't understand them?' But she started shouting and screaming, saying 'It's racist, you're going to get done by the police'."

A complaint was made to a police officer based full-time at the school, and more than a week after the incident on September 26 she was taken to Swinton police station and placed under arrest. "They told me to take my laces out of my shoes and remove my jewellery, and I had my fingerprints and photograph taken," said Codie. "It was awful." After questioning on suspicion of committing a section five racial public order offence, her mother Nicola says she was placed in a bare cell for three-and-a-half hours then released without charge.

Michael Gordon writing in The Age, Saturday, August 1, 2015:

"Goodes' problems began during the
Indigenous round in 2013 when, in the midst of a best-on-ground
performance, he was called an "ape" by a voice in the crowd and
Goodes pointed out the perpetrator, who turned out to be a 13
year old girl."

"The next day the girl told Channel 10 she had not meant to be
racist and that she had apologised to Goodes,
"When I called him an ape, he explained what ape
means for Indigenous people and he
said that he doesn't hate me and that I've got to learn from
my mistakes," she said."

Goodes responded with grace, insisting he placed no blame on the
girl and declaring, "The person who needs the most support now
is the little girl."

More than two years on, the story has become so twisted that
Goodes has somehow become the villain and is now being urged by
some, to apologise to the girl..."

Amazing stuff!

Gordon writes - Goodes' second "transgression" was to use
the platform afforded by being named Australian of the Year to
encourage a national conversation about racism, just as
Rosie Batty has used her award as a platform to confront the
scourge of domestic violence.

Then came the third strike, the "war
dance," performed after Goodes kicked a goal in this year's
Indigenous round that critics saw as aggressive and
confronting, yet was conceived as a celebration of Aboriginal
culture.

Gordon asks - whether the booing stops when Goodes returns
looms as a test of the national character. Will the tall-poppy
syndrome the disdain for authority and the portrayal of
Goodes as a divisive whinger by those who have never walked in
his shoes see it continue? Or will those other traits we like
to identify with prevail: an innate sense of fairness,
a generosity of spirit, an egalitarian ethos, and most of all,
a willingness to back the under-dog?

If they do, as Gordon states, something good will emerge from
Goodes' pain.

Gordon tells us that:

"I stand with Adam."

Me Too!

What you do not understand Foxy, is that taking the type of action that you advocate would escalate the problem. Goodes has done enough of that, himself. He does not need your politically correct advice, he needs advice from someone with a bit of sense

cont'd ...

I forgot to add a very important point that
Michael Gordon made:

The harshest critici9sm has come from white
conservatives - including shock jocks and columnists
who have never, like Adam Goodes, experienced the
legacy of the stolen generations or the racism that is
part of the daily experience of Indigenous Australians.

News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt was so bruised at being
accused of racial vilification on the ABC's Q&A last year
(an accusation that was promptly withdrawn with an apology)
that he could not face going to work the next day.
How could he cope being booed by thousands of people he did
not know, week-in, week-out?

An ugliness has been unleashed and is being felt by coaches
of the game who have appealed to fans not to vilify players
warning that any fans who boo Goodes from now on will be
showing they are bigots.

Hopefully this will have the right effect.

Foxy, you'll be shocked to learn that a lot of people have a big problem with Rosie Batty as well, she's another working class person who's unwisely thrown her lot in with the parasite class. We all agree that family violence is wrong, that it's a problem and that more could be done to prevent it, yet Ms Batty who in other circumstances may have been a powerful advocate for the victims has, like Goodes fallen in with the hated Social Justice Warriors.
Remember that Social Justice activism is all about saying words on the internet and has nothing to do with taking action in the real world, it's for that reason that such campaigns always generate a powerful backlash. Unlike the anonymous, insubstantial SJW activism that backlash manifests itself in real world actions and real life consequences, like booing at sports matches in this instance and real world bullying and assaults in others.
I predicted this years ago, that Social Justice activism would lead to profoundly negative consequences for ethnic and sexual minorities because it's purely an expression of White, inner urban midle class solidarity and has no real world base. I mean, my God, look at the havok caused by "Black lives matter" in the U.S, the murder and incarceration rate for Black males has actually spiked in NYC, Baltimore, Chicago and elsewhere since the whole sorry charade began.

You have no sense of proportion, do you, Foxy? How can Bolt, who faced a baseless accusation of racism in the poisonous atmosphere of the ABC, taking the following day off, be compared with Goodes, whose own self-centred nonsense caused him to be booed?
Bolt braved a hostile environment to present a rational point of view and was subjected to a gratuitous and baseless attack by an activist. Goodes turned the attendance in a benevolent sporting environment into a hostile mob , by actions flowing from his boneheaded false sense of entitlement.