hasbeen - I do get a bit sick of some of the garbage that goes on, with some people looking for something to bitch about.

Its clear thats been the case here. I thought the player was supposed to be a big strong (some would say (erroneously) 'heroic' male). as things transpired, he now looks like a namby-pamby mummys boy. Whats the world coming to when people who like to portray a public image of uber-masculine take to crying piteously like a new-born baby ??

As for the nonsense about changing word usage, virtually everyone in this country has some ancestral events way back in the mists of time that could conceivably construe discrimination. There were certainly some very interesting happenings in the days of my ancient ancestors (for the peanut gallery, there were **NO** convicts) but why should I give a rats about stuff than happened hundreds of years back. When its all said and done, the other side probably deserved their fate :)

Just to get the blood pressure of our do-gooder friends racing, I have for many years in a particular area used a certain indigenous 'title' that upsets the politically correct lunatic fringe no end. Funnily enough, I have the full approval of the relevant people to use the term and in fact its a source of considerable merriment to them. Don't even think about aggro, the elders have a hard time not splitting their sides when they encounter the usage. Point of this ramble is that a lot of the terms which offend do-gooders are of no consequence whatever to those with a direct connection.

poirot: If you're saying what I think you're saying about people with whom you have contrary views...I think you had better re-examine your terminology.

Wow, poirot, you must have a guilty conscience or something. I mentioned no names, are you admitting that you maybe a potential terrorist but you don't want anyone to know. If it was me, I wouldn't jump in so quickly, that seems to say something. Doesn't it?

It wasn't about people with contrary views either. I have differing views to lots of other people on here without being nasty. Unlike some people. Some of those nasty people have exhibited views that could be construed as the views of potential terrorists. Are you one of those? I don’t know.

Remember the word Jigaboo & Jive were words invented by African Americans to describe themselves in the first instant. I have explained that before, but it seems to have been ignored by some people for some reason.

PC people do like to play up the “Black Card” at every opportunity they can. PC people do like to take advantage of “whitie,” & cry, “poor me, now gimme some more moolah.” These PC people see hate in everyone & everything. They spend their entire lives trying to be offended by everything & everyone. It’s a type of Mental Illness & they can’t help it, unfortunately.

Yes "JIGABOO" is offensive.

individual>> My answer is No ! Jigga Boo is a term that is used to indicate a useless non-thinker<<

Since when Indi?
Jigaboo has always been a derogatory name for blacks, perhaps one of the connotations is brain dead, but that is part of the slur…brain dead, lazy, useless, less of a person than the one calling them jigaboo. It is all inferred by the sledge jigaboo.

For no reason other than suspicion, I doubt our mate Jansey is a black fella, but then again one sixteenth gets you into the club here…..there are not as many black fellas as there are claimants.

Have any here seen the blue eyes/brown eyes social experiment? It proves that it does not take much to make a white feel marginalized.

I'm still astounded by the rationalisations and pseudo logic people use here [not to condemn racism], but to justify their beliefs that they have a god given right to perpetuate it, or condone it, declare its authenticity - no matter what. And these same people believe they are fair minded, upstanding citizens. The mind boggles!

When I read through comments here its clear that it has become commonplace for an Australian brand of whiteness to pervade and regulate discussions surrounding race and racism. This Whiteness is represented as invisible, as the unseen or the unmarked, as a non-colour, the absent presence or hidden referent, against which all other colours and ethnicities are measured as forms of social and cultural deviance. But of this Australian whiteness is only invisible for those who inhabit it. For those who don’t, it is hard not to see whiteness; in fact it become quite ubiquitous and stark.

Rainier,
We obviously have vastly different experiences because I have met a lot more black racists than white ones.