Eddie McGuire makes on-air gaffe about Adam Goodes and King Kong
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So, who's gonna win tomorrow night?
Sure as nobody in the family even looks remotely like one it would be the lamest insult ever.
What I do find quite offensive is people making sweeping statements like "Anyone in Australia who doesn't know that calling an Aboriginal "ape" is monumentally offensive has had a bad upbringing. Pure and simple."
Where I've lived and grown up it has never been used as an insult against the aboriginals. Call someone an Ape (before Friday at least..) and you would probably get a WTF? look. Call an aboriginal a n****r, bong, coon or even an abbo and you had better be ready for a fight.
Not just having a go at you because many others have said similar things as well, but it really pisses me off when people claim that anyone hasn't heard of 'ape' as a racial slur is some ignorant idiot, especially when you've spent a fair amount of time growing up around aboriginal people.
The girl got hung out to dry being publicly shamed when there IMO was a very real chance that she wasn't 'racist' at all. An absolute disgrace.
Wasn't aimed at you specifically, just the people who refuse to see both sides of the situation, and basically abuse and insult any poster who refuses to toe the PC party line.
The people running around with their skirts over their head yelling "racist!" at everyone are every bit as bad as the genuine head-in-the-sand racists. But they think that because they're on the super-safe politically correct side of the fence it makes them immune from looking like fanatical morons.
Political extremism works both ways, and is equally silly no matter which camp you're in.
I know exactly why I asked the question and it's far more innocuous than you've suggested. So where does the suggestion of anything being "more Aboriginal" come from? It comes from you. You can either react with injured sarcasm, or take ownership of your thoughts. It's your choice. I don't much care.
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As an adult, though, and not a five-year-old, you'd know it's not nice to stereotype people by their appearance. Kids say super racist things. They're not hating, they're just noticing what's different. But you and I, and that 13-year-old, should be able to get past the fact that this guy's skin is different to mine, or that person's nose is bigger. Because that is racism: judging a person by their race, rather than who they are.
People might not always like what Andrew Bolt has to say, but it's hard to disagree here.
"I blame New Racism for some of this. The Indigenous Round is a fashionably racist event that encourages people to divide the world into a white "us" and an Aboriginal "them". It assumes a grievance and a difference. It encouraged commentators to see in the 13-year-old the archetypal white racist rather than a scared and sorry girl who'd been naughty but now needed her mum."
"The girl is just a girl and not a "white". Eddie is just Eddie and not that bright.
Can we all get on with the footy?" ~ Bolt
Eddie is an entertainer, TV Host, President of a football club and a family man and has his tentacles in a stack of other areas, he calls it multitasking, i call it over commitment and it has come back to bite him on the bum as he has already acknowledged that exhaustion had a lot to do with his brain fade. Something has to give with Eddie 'everywhere' Mcguire before he becomes Eddie 'nowhere'? His days are numbered as Collingwood president or as the host of Triple M hot breakfast, now which one pays more?
"I blame New Racism for some of this. The Indigenous Round is a fashionably racist event that encourages people to divide the world into a white "us" and an Aboriginal "them". It assumes a grievance and a difference. It encouraged commentators to see in the 13-year-old the archetypal white racist rather than a scared and sorry girl who'd been naughty but now needed her mum."
"The girl is just a girl and not a "white". Eddie is just Eddie and not that bright.
Can we all get on with the footy?" ~ Bolt
Eddie is an entertainer, TV Host, President of a football club and a family man and has his tentacles in a stack of other areas, he calls it multitasking, i call it over commitment and it has come back to bite him on the bum as he has already acknowledged that exhaustion had a lot to do with his brain fade. Something has to give with Eddie 'everywhere' Mcguire before he becomes Eddie 'nowhere'? His days are numbered as Collingwood president or as the host of Triple M hot breakfast, now which one pays more?
Where is he at?
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I could go on, but I'd have to change my username if I was going to. You'd be surprised at what I've seen and done Bernie. By the way, I think I'm going to report your username for using a racist term. I'm sure my Japanese friends are losing sleep because of it you racist.
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Stop quoting my posts, i'm done with you, if you said that to me in person you would be more than sorry.
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Because you go for Collingwood.
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Wait, so you are offended, so it is okay to threaten me with, I assume, physical harm, but it is not okay for Adam Goodes to be offended and state he is. Gotcha - thanks for clarifying
- Go into right-wing hysteria. Label everyone who doesn't completely agree with you as PC police.
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- Feel vindicated by support of fellow ignoramus to race discrimination currently and historically and continue to display tunnel vision.
- Explain that your view on the situation is only correct one and anyone who tries to look at it differently is automatically an hysterical bigot
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So you wouldn't apologize to a friend or significant other if you accidentally upset them? Even though you didn't mean it? To put it in context, Eddie accidentally upset a whole portion of our population.
I'm not Aboriginal, and I'm gonna take a wild guess that you're not either. Neither you nor I have any business telling them that they're being "too ******* touchy" when we can't possibly understand what it feels like.
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All this talk about monkeys is reminding me about monkey magic and sandy and pigsy,gee that was a political correct show wasn't it lol.
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fair enough.
That he does.
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I don't think it's Ok to question the intelligence of a posters 5 year old daughter, you feeling me bro?
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I always cringe when people are sent in to the AFL for 're-education' . . . it sounds so fascist.
Well that's one step in a more sympathetic view if you're admitting that.
Or otherwise you should absolutely reread your posts before posting. Misconstruing things is one of the arguments made in this thread and on this issue, if you been following any of it.
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So now do I go on for 50 posts about how I don't think there is anything wrong with questioning your daughter's intelligence? How I do it all the time? How I question the intelligence of people who I know are actually intelligent. And then any time someone makes a comment about it repeat the same thing ad nauseum? Are YOU feeling ME *bro*?
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Lets PRAY your not bestowing your wisdom on her.
