I know they haven’t won a final in decades but that is just too extreme mate.
Rumour Jeremy Finlayson under investigation - 3 game suspension
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I know they haven’t won a final in decades but that is just too extreme mate.
I think he'll cop similar to Clarkson, maybe with some of the fine suspended due to his immediate apology.
Seems to me that that the easiest way to avoid any sort of sanction is simply to swear at another player if you want to say something to vent at them. An Effing C or Effing idiot or something like that isn't racist nor homophobic. I am probably showing my age but at school in the 80's you'd be called all sorts of 'homophobic' names, and it would be water off a duck's back.
Anyway this is the world we're in and people have to be very careful, hence a simple cursing might be the only way to vent and make a point.
Anyway this is the world we're in and people have to be very careful, hence a simple cursing might be the only way to vent and make a point.
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It wasn't water off a ducks back if you were a gay kid though, it was exhausting to hear that sort of shit day in day out back then. I left the country in the 90s and moved to the UK because hearing that kind of language constantly growing up I didn't think I'd be safe to come out here and I know I'm not the only one. Words have consequences.
He owned it because he was caught.
Pity the Afl didn’t get there knickers in a knot over the snorting of coke.Have a listen to this lot on here attacking anyone who has any common sense.Attack attack anyone who doesn’t agree with there left leaning garbage.How will you cope if anything remotely serious happens in your life.The Media goth at the mouth over this garbage fine the guy educate and move on.This site has become laughable.
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The thing is, the AFL is a workplace, and employers have a positive duty to eliminate discrimination and sexual.
Go check out the human rights commissions guidelines on harassment and discrimination that came into effect earlier this year/late last year. If they don’t make a big deal out of CLEAR cases then what chance do they have of convincing the commission and others they’re proactively working on it to prevent? They don’t want more run ins with AHRC after the clarko/fagan hawks fiasco
Clarko Fagan fiasco has not been been proven yet.Maybe the fiasco is players lying for $$$.More damage is being done by making such a big deal out of this incident.
I will listen to the Afl when drugs are reported properly and betting adds don’t flash around the ground at each game ,gambling does more damage in society than one bloke making a stupid comment.Seriously the world has gone mad.Stop being brainwashed by deflecting industries like the Afl.
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Even if it was in the heat of the moment, what sort of mind resorts to spewing out a homophobic slur? I mean, there are plenty of non-homophobic insults in the arsenal to use.
I'm confident to the point of certainty that in the same situation I wouldn't be saying something similar, even in anger my mind wouldn't go there.
So you’ve never said anything like it?
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No, I've never used a homophobic slur. As I implied, my mind hasn't gone there.
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$20k and 2 weeks suspended sentence was the going rate for Homophobic slurs just two months ago
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I have, 25 years ago when I was a teenager in school. It was very common back then, particularly when you go to a bogan school. Not that that makes it ok, but edgy teens are dickheads.
As a 28 year old man in 2024 it's pretty weird that Finny's mind has it stored up as a word that can still be used. Suggests that maybe he throws it around in private.
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Its not really about whether the guy is gay or not, its using the word as an insult, being picked up on a mic means impressionable people think that being gay is something to be embarrassed about or vilified because of your preferences. Weve moved past this
Where I went to school it was basically a synonym for ‘living being’. Granted I am older than him** and the area may have also contributed to that.
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Just call them Whiskers instead.There’s a few that identify as cats these days i better careful calling someone a pussy.
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The current timeline is stupid and should be called out as such, we have gone way too far and precious about everything. There are so many thing wrong with the world but as a society we seem to make way too much of nothing issues like this instead.
Without excusing Walker, if he got more games I wouldn't have complained, but he never said shit to Tarrant - he said it to a teammate referring to him
Club trainer overheard and reported it
He never abused anyone, he used ****ed up language between his mates
Power should play in the rainbow guernsey for the next couple rounds. To demonstrate that they are are not homophobic .
Finlayson should also undergo some kind of therapy to help him understand his crime. Perhaps live as a gay man for a few weeks to walk a mile in the other guys shoes, so to speak.
Finlayson should also undergo some kind of therapy to help him understand his crime. Perhaps live as a gay man for a few weeks to walk a mile in the other guys shoes, so to speak.
What would this involve
