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Adam Goodes kicks goals for Australia's race industry : Comments

By John Slater, published 4/8/2015

The Adam Goodes saga says little about the state of race relations in Australia.

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I agree with Chek and Rhosty. Unless you have walked in Goode's shoes, then you don't really know what racist remarks have done to him over his lifetime.

Hasbeen calls Goodes 'thuggish'.
Why is that?
How is he more thuggish than any of the other footy players?

This subject was discussed on Q&A last night.
I had to laugh as one panelist (African-American) asked why calling Goodes an ape was denigrating his race, given that dark skinned people are predominantly less hairy than light skinned people?

This article hides the author's true intent - saying that the Aboriginals are really lucky to live in such a fab multicultural society as Australia is.
However, to Aboriginal people, it will always be a society taken over by all the other cultures, to the detriment of their own.
Posted by Suseonline, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 3:11:07 PM
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Suseonline, "However, to Aboriginal people, it will always be a society taken over by all the other cultures, to the detriment of their own"

You are saying they are racist and xenophoblic.

How come the endless diversity that is deemed absolutely essential for everyone else is no good where Aborigines are concerned?
Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 6:22:40 PM
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Karma

With thanks to Jay of Melbourne, posting in a concurrent thread,

<Back in 2001, promoting round three of that year’s AFL season, the Sydney Swans aggressively encouraged crowds to boo Sydney’s opponents:

[Swans communications manager Stephen] Brassel said the “Boo a Roo” marketing slogan was necessary to entice Swans supporters to attend because the match was not part of the club’s membership package.
....
“We are going to need all our marketing expertise to make this work, and what we are doing with the ‘Boo a Roo’ thing is capitalising on what has happened in the past. You only have to go back to last year when they (the Roos) played here (in Round 20). They were booed for the whole game.”

And that was considered a positive thing. Adam Goodes, by the way, played in both the round 20, 2000 and round three, 2001 matches. At least one indigenous player, North Melbourne’s Byron Pickett, would have been the target of Sydney’s crowd.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/when_sydney_booed/
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 5:16:35 PM>

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=17558&page=9
Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 7:12:57 PM
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The sooner that people wake up to the fact that it is an honour to be labelled racist or bigoted by ignorant deceitful regressive media and those who share its dogma the better. What greater insult to be seen to be praised by the gw thieves, the baby killers or those who think spearing people is a civilised practice.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 7:26:32 PM
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Onthebeach speaks like the dominant white man he likes to think he is.

Runner speaks like the loving Christian white man he has never been.
Posted by Suseonline, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 7:38:16 PM
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Suseonline,

Everyone gets that you hate 'whites'(sic) and 'white' men hugely more.

Back to the question, "How come the endless diversity that is deemed absolutely essential for everyone else is no good where Aborigines are concerned?".
Posted by onthebeach, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 9:38:07 PM
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