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People are free to say whatever they want, that's true.
So long as it's not defamatory or racist.
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People are free to say whatever they want, that's true.
And this boys and girls is why racism will never be eradicated.I was all ready to join the masses in condemning this girl until I found out what it was that she said ...
"To come to the boundary line and hear a 13-year-old girl call me an 'ape', and it's not the first time on a footy field that I've been referred to as a 'monkey' or an 'ape', it was shattering ... "This week is a celebration of our people and our culture."
So **** it! I'm just going to come right out and say. The reason why, Adam, is because, like it or not, you do kinda look like an ape. Tar me racist all you want, but it has nothing to do with your people, your culture or your skin colour. I also happen to think Fraser Gehrig looks like an ape. Would I be accused of racism or sullying a celebration of indigenous culture for calling Gehrig an ape?
So to those who would call me a racist, and to Adam Goodes, I say get over yourselves. You are the ones drawing the distinction of race here. I'm just being mean spirited in the same sense people are when they say Rebecca Judd looks like a horse, or Paris Hilton looks like a lama.
And this boys and girls is why racism will never be eradicated.
Wumming obviouslyI was all ready to join the masses in condemning this girl until I found out what it was that she said ...
"To come to the boundary line and hear a 13-year-old girl call me an 'ape', and it's not the first time on a footy field that I've been referred to as a 'monkey' or an 'ape', it was shattering ... "This week is a celebration of our people and our culture."
So **** it! I'm just going to come right out and say. The reason why, Adam, is because, like it or not, you do kinda look like an ape. Tar me racist all you want, but it has nothing to do with your people, your culture or your skin colour. I also happen to think Fraser Gehrig looks like an ape. Would I be accused of racism or sullying a celebration of indigenous culture for calling Gehrig an ape?
So to those who would call me a racist, and to Adam Goodes, I say get over yourselves. You are the ones drawing the distinction of race here. I'm just being mean spirited in the same sense people are when they say Rebecca Judd looks like a horse, or Paris Hilton looks like a lama.
Surely this is some terrible attempt at a joke??? Please??I was all ready to join the masses in condemning this girl until I found out what it was that she said ...
"To come to the boundary line and hear a 13-year-old girl call me an 'ape', and it's not the first time on a footy field that I've been referred to as a 'monkey' or an 'ape', it was shattering ... "This week is a celebration of our people and our culture."
So **** it! I'm just going to come right out and say. The reason why, Adam, is because, like it or not, you do kinda look like an ape. Tar me racist all you want, but it has nothing to do with your people, your culture or your skin colour. I also happen to think Fraser Gehrig looks like an ape. Would I be accused of racism or sullying a celebration of indigenous culture for calling Gehrig an ape?
So to those who would call me a racist, and to Adam Goodes, I say get over yourselves. You are the ones drawing the distinction of race here. I'm just being mean spirited in the same sense people are when they say Rebecca Judd looks like a horse, or Paris Hilton looks like a lama.
Primate is a classification, evolution has no evidence whatsoever it's akin to the suggestion the cup evolved into the tea cup due to physical similarities. This is the moronic mechanist rationalist viewpoint the need to believe in any convoluted theory told often enough by perceived authorities given the same scientific dictatorship as their education.
I was all ready to join the masses in condemning this girl until I found out what it was that she said ...
"To come to the boundary line and hear a 13-year-old girl call me an 'ape', and it's not the first time on a footy field that I've been referred to as a 'monkey' or an 'ape', it was shattering ... "This week is a celebration of our people and our culture."
So **** it! I'm just going to come right out and say. The reason why, Adam, is because, like it or not, you do kinda look like an ape. Tar me racist all you want, but it has nothing to do with your people, your culture or your skin colour. I also happen to think Fraser Gehrig looks like an ape. Would I be accused of racism or sullying a celebration of indigenous culture for calling Gehrig an ape?
So to those who would call me a racist, and to Adam Goodes, I say get over yourselves. You are the ones drawing the distinction of race here. I'm just being mean spirited in the same sense people are when they say Rebecca Judd looks like a horse, or Paris Hilton looks like a lama.
Answer the question. Would I be racist for saying Gehrig looks like an ape?
I knew well before I posted that some nuffie would pull the race card. But it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with someone having their feelings hurt. I doubt the girl even understands the deeper racial connotations of what she said.
Democracy: Freedom of Speech very important part of it.
Freedom of speech
Australians are free, within the bounds of the law, to say or write what we think privately or publicly, about the government, or about any topic. We do not censor the media and may criticise the government without fear of arrest. Free speech comes from facts, not rumours, and the intention must be constructive, not to do harm. There are laws to protect a person's good name and integrity against false information. There are laws against saying or writing things to incite hatred against others because of their culture, ethnicity or background. Freedom of speech is not an excuse to harm others.
Surely this is some terrible attempt at a joke??? Please??
Someone ban this guy. After all that happened last night and today, I can't believe that somebody would come out and say this. Look at how upset Goodes was today in his interview. How do you feel about going up to him and telling him that this is how you feel?
Answer the question. Would I be racist for saying Gehrig looks like an ape?[/quote
You really think there's nothing racially charged about calling Goodes an Ape? For centuries black people have compared to monkeys as a way of putting them down as a subspecies. This Social Darwinistic view is how people justified slavery, segregation and discrimination for a long, long time. That's why it's a racially charged term. It's pretty bloody understandable how Goodes would be really offended by being called an ape. Despite being a star of the game, a great role model and all around good bloke that has achieved pretty much everything that anyone could ever achieve in the game, some people still don't view him as their equal.
I was all ready to join the masses in condemning this girl until I found out what it was that she said ...
"To come to the boundary line and hear a 13-year-old girl call me an 'ape', and it's not the first time on a footy field that I've been referred to as a 'monkey' or an 'ape', it was shattering ... "This week is a celebration of our people and our culture."
So **** it! I'm just going to come right out and say. The reason why, Adam, is because, like it or not, you do kinda look like an ape. Tar me racist all you want, but it has nothing to do with your people, your culture or your skin colour. I also happen to think Fraser Gehrig looks like an ape. Would I be accused of racism or sullying a celebration of indigenous culture for calling Gehrig an ape?
So to those who would call me a racist, and to Adam Goodes, I say get over yourselves. You are the ones drawing the distinction of race here. I'm just being mean spirited in the same sense people are when they say Rebecca Judd looks like a horse, or Paris Hilton looks like a lama.
Wow, 1965 called.
Please go back there!
No Goodes did, who are you to say what another person (and the man this was addressed to) is offended by?
So what else could she have meant by calling Goodes an Ape?He can be offended all he wants, but he has no right to infer the intent of another person where it is not so clear. This girl, rightly or wrongly, as I don't know her intent either, has now been accused of racism and everyone seems to be swallowing it down as 100% fact she made a racially based comment. I'm just not so sure it can be deemed as such given I've often thought Goodes and Gehrig had an ape like look about them, Fevola too to some extent.
Agree. there was no intent of racism in that comment at such a young age. Tell her its wrong by all means for calling someone a name, don't call her racist for something where she didn't intend to be racist.
He can be offended all he wants, but he has no right to infer the intent of another person where it is not so clear. This girl, rightly or wrongly, as I don't know her intent either, has now been accused of racism and everyone seems to be swallowing it down as 100% fact she made a racially based comment. I'm just not so sure it can be deemed as such given I've often thought Goodes and Gehrig had an ape like look about them, Fevola too to some extent.
So when the Indian fans hooted like monkeys at Adam Symonds or when European soccer fans have thrown bananas at black athletes this was just the same as people noticing Nick Riewoldt's similarity to an internet picture of a llama. An entire history of racial slurs is conveniantly ignored.
http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/3-coon/6-monkey/