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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Wow, 1965 called.
Please go back there!
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.
So you are assuming a 14 year old girl knows about all those incidents and purposely called him an ape because she knew it was racist?
You really have no empathy for him? You watched his statement today?
So what else could she have meant by calling Goodes an Ape?
You don't have to know the detailed history of a racist slur to buy into it. In fact it probably helps not too. It's not as if the equation of black people with monkeys is obscure or unknown, however much people on BF might pretend not to know of it when they're trying to find an apology for racism.So you are assuming a 14 year old girl knows about all those incidents and purposely called him an ape because she knew it was racist?
Who said anything about her knowing the history of racism? You don't have to be a professor of history to be racist mate.
Could well be but are you assuming this because she's quite young? because when i was her age kids would use the term "ape" knowing exactly the negative connotations of the comment.Same thing as if she said it to Fraser Gehrig.
If you use a term against a person of a certain racial background that historically has been employed as a form of racial abuse against people of that certain racial background, then it is a racist term. It's not a difficult concept.
When i was her age a Ghanaian kid at school was called "ape" "monkey" as well and he looked nothing like any of those. Using her age to excuse her from what she's said, i doubt she's that stupid.Well how is calling Goodes an ape racist? If it isn't based on history. She didn't say black ape, of which would racist.
I'm surprised that people who can't see a link between calling an Aboriginal man an ape and racism are actually highly enough functioning human beings to use a computer.
I'm not sure of her intent, but I just can't accept as fact that calling someone that automatically relates to their ethnicity or racial heritage. It's like Aka's comment years about about "paying peanuts". Sometimes the racial distinction is coming the opposite way to what people like to think.
So all this hoohah is because of the word 'Ape' ? Surely Goode's is joking....
Perhaps the young lass should have paid him 20K to make it all go away....if you know what I mean...
For anyone to say following, this incident that we haven't come any further than where we were 20 years ago is simply wrong, the education, empathy, and sensitivity surrounding this issue for the most part is very admirable and all we have learned tonight is that while the fight against racism is not over, the trend of hate speech, and racial abuse is dying and will eventually be gone.
Racist or not, humiliating and embarrassing someone is never OK.
Really? Have some people not established this (whether they do it or not)?
I'm surprised that those who see this link as automatic actually accuse others of being racist
I just feel that the branding of this girl as a racist might just be well off the track.
Tarzan may have been more....."appropriate"If all she called him was an ape I suggest he toughen up. What a pussy.
I have never said it was. I would never endorse any supporter abusing any participant at the football, including umpires. I've never done it and tbh, I don't even understand the purpose of someone doing this.
I just feel that the branding of this girl as a racist might just be well off the track.