Mega Thread Coronavirus & the AFL - Stage 4 Restrictions in Place in Vic - Part 3

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Mega Thread - Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. (Thread part 1 - cont in part 2, link in thread)

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Mega Thread - Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. Part 2 * CONTINUED ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED *

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Mega Thread - Coronavirus & the AFL - Stage 4 Restrictions in Place in Vic - Part 4

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[madrigal]

I'm a brown skinned middle-easterner and I think they should leave US politics out of Aus sports - am I racist?

Dunno, what is your opinion on Israel?

 

[Black white]

yep, every team has their dickhead supporters

They sure do, don't worry , you can have another go

 

[FRUMPY]

AFL players to take a knee before round two restart in support of Black Lives Matter movement

Collingwood and Richmond football players will take a knee before the opening bounce of tonight's game to show their support for those protesting the death of George Floyd.

www.abc.net.au

what does everyone think ?

Hasn't taken the social moral giant long to make a stand has it - back to business as usual. Too bad it wasnt around when members wanted their money back. I wonder if any collingwood player who called harry-o a chimp will take a knee or eddie.

Be nice if we could get a week of football without claiming some moral high-ground.

 

[FRUMPY]

Imagine changing your way of thinking because of athlete's opinions

Its gets too confusing with the likes of Ablett Senior, Carey, Micky-O, Nick Stevens, Justin Murphy, Stephen Milne etc.......

 

[Stax on the mill]

Will any player have the guts to not take a knee and not bow down (literally) to the pressure.

Highly doubtful, even if privately they feel it’s a nonsense. Imagine the howls of “racist” from the mob. Gil would then feel obliged to suspend the dissenter and pack him off to an intensive re-education gulag. Tokenistic tripe.

 

[tandino]

People are more than free to ignore it if they want to.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Don’t like it. This is AFL football, please leave the politics out of it.

Oh pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Leave politics out of sport

Supporting the status quo isn't non-political.

 

[FRUMPY]

The patting themselves on the back will be nauseating - the AFL, channel 7, media circle jerk over it.

 

[Teen Wolf]

The patting themselves on the bag will be nauseating

Yeah sounds pretty gross

 

[carloss]

I believe the AFL is considering banning the Confederate flag at games as well.

 

[Forward Press]

I think we get your point, doesn’t mean it was a good one. You can’t compare where the UK was at 59 cases to where we are currently at.

Of course, because the UK at 59 cases weren't enforcing quarantines or lockdowns at that stage and it therefore went out of control into society.

Just saying if it say becomes 65 tomorrow with no idea where the other 6 came from, that's not good. Even if you want to take the position of 'oh well, just 65 out of 6 million, that's nothing to be concerned about'.

 

[FRUMPY]

Yeah sounds pretty gross

haha my mistake - but probably not far from the truth at the same time

 

[Cotchins Hair Piece]

Imagine changing your way of thinking because of athlete's opinions

There’s a lot of stupid people out there. Imagine buying a product because some blonde bimbo who has her ass out on Instagram spruiks it. People are dumb.

 

[SportsCentre]

It's going to take a lot more than thousands of unemployed and unwashed chanting slogans at protests to do something about these "issues". It's not like ScottMo or any other politician at the time is going to fix things at the click of a finger .

A bunch of footballers kneeling on the ground is sure going to change a lot, may as well cure cancer while they are at it!

What if they also offered "thoughts and prayers"?


The gesture will be written about in tomorrow's papers and then not referred back to again.

 

[Tygrys]

Typical AFL selective wokism at work. Loud and clear when it comes to black lives matter, yet no condemnation or criticism about the tens of thousands of idiots who ignored pleas from medical authorities and marched during a global pandemic that has taken hundreds of thousands of live. People who not only endangered themselves but more importantly others they may subsequently come in contact with. But again not a word because that would be politically incorrect. Just simply pathetic.

 

[Black white]

I presume the AFL games in china will be off now in protest at the imprisonment of over 1 million Muslims for daring to have a faith. Koch head let's hear you

 

[FRUMPY]

I believe the AFL is considering banning the Confederate flag at games as well.

Wearing a beanie or hat ok? (yes joking)

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Candace Owens is a nutty alt-right commentator and rising star of the young conservative movement. She is the founder of Red Pill Black on YouTube and also serves as Turning Point USA's "director of urban engagement." Get it? Because she's the only black female TPUSA supporter who isn't a stock photo model. White supremacist leader Richard Spencerhas described Owens as "the last stand of implicit white identity".[3]

Candace Owens

Candace Owens (1989–) is a disgraced wingnut commentator and rising airhead of the young conservative movement. She is the founder of Red Pill Black on YouTube and serves as Turning Point USA's "director of urban engagement." Get it? Because she's the only black female TPUSA supporter who isn't...

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[Dinsdale]

They sure do, don't worry , you can have another go

I didnt mean you back then, but now I do. Got another quote from 5+ years ago?

 

[Cotchins Hair Piece]

People are more than free to ignore it if they want to.

It would be like ignoring a banana being shoved down your throat.

 

[Upgrayedd]

An extremely pointless exercise, it's based off an American issue.

We don't have racism in Australia? News to me

 

[FRUMPY]

It would be like ignoring a banana being shoved down your throat.

Racist?

 

[Black white]

I didnt mean you back then, but now I do. Got another quote from 5+ years ago?

Regarding a story older than 5 years. None to mind. But you put your 1 cent dig in again if you want.

 

[tandino]

It would be like ignoring a banana being shoved down your throat.

Organisations are in feverish competition for your attention every second of every day. What's the difference?

People have to accept that others have different viewpoints to them. Acknowledge it, accept it, or ignore it, and get on with your life.

 

[Upgrayedd]

This isn't about equality - it's in support of a specific American political movement, Black Lives Matter, which if I recall correctly makes dubious use of it's donations and the founders have made racist comments in the past.

Sounds like you are coming up with epistemic reasons as you dont seem to believe why the movement is happening.