Good on you Tahu,
Racism is an ugly sentiment. I hope you can take this further & encourage all racists to have a good look in the mirror each morning. You obviously made this stand as part of an agenda & I for one hope that it is a decent one not mere media gimmick

"I simply think we need to harden the F### up!"

Like everything else there is a balance. Just how much racial villification should someone have to tollerate before the other party has the right to be offended or to take action? If racial insults are Ok then should those who like to toss them around have to harden up if someone else decides to give a physical response?

There is value in being tough enough to do what you need to do in the face of pain (emotional or physical) but hardening up beyond that leads to a society and world with little regard for the needs of others.

If anything we need to a tenderness that's able to cope with the tough times rather than a calous hardness which seems to be the direction called for when people are told to harden up over wrongdoing.

R0bert

Funny thing about what is politically correct.

There was a an earlier thread where it was argued that banning the burqa (the single most odious example of discrimination against women) was a war against women, as it is a freedom of speech issue.

But with racist comments, howls are for immediate action. While I cannot condone Andrew Johns, I wonder about perspective and who is determining the PC agenda.

I can. Harden up Belly. Isn't that what you were saying?.

Way back in the mid 70s, I watched the service manager of an auto company in Rabaul PNG rant at a bunch of his local staff, when they had stuffed something up somewhat. He was shouting that they were a bunch of rock apes, just out of the trees. That he should check to see if they still had tails, among other things.

I was shocked, & also surprised that I was so shocked. After all, it was their country, & I had never heard someone carry on like that. Perhaps I'd led a sheltered life.

Today I'm almost as shocked to find that such a rant now appears to be worse than mugging someone, & leaving them bleeding in the srteet.

Ballance does appear to be lacking in all of this.

In terms of balance, perhaps there is an issue of course, but Rugby League players are expected to be role models for both good and bad. The same goes for the ex-players, labeled as Legends of the Game, Arthur Beatson, Wally Lewis, Joey Johns, etc.

Tahu has taken this stand in order to stop this being continued. It is one step at a time, so I applaud his stand. About time someone stood up to be counted.