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I can be critical of tasteless bahaviour, find it abhorrent even, but still defend the right of an individual to act that way, especially at a private function. The AFL is not the arbiter of reasonable behaviour, no employer is for mine. No laws broken except those of taste. AFL should not be involved. The fines are excessive as always for AFL players. Below is a sample a quick search for "man fined $5000 bought up." The AFLPA need to grow a spine and standup to the AFL overreaction.




 
Then why are they fining players for dressing up as famous movie characters?
One in all in type situation. Once the AFL were drawn in to investigate, they had to act. If it was only movie characters and Twin Towers, I believe the AFL couldn't of looked at the incident and therefore was not obliged to act.
 

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The most extraordinary part of this is Conor Idon being fined for doing a act from a popular movie that I would guess may on this board have watched many times. Tarantino treatment of a sensitive subjective is ironic, funny, moving at times but filled with gauge, over the top violence and mayhem. Its irreverent. For me I love his dialogue but sometimes the violence is too slapstick.

Now the AFL, in this case I will guess the majority of people involved in handing down sanctions are white middles class people. Obviously Dillon is. Its stunningly wrong to me that they feel they can judge a black man, who took the time to discuss this with the other black men before going ahead, for dressing up as a black character to do a scene from Django.

This is a serious overstep by the AFL and too me extremely ignorant. They have no right to make this judgement.
 
That is incorrect. Legally speaking, due to the public nature of their position, whilst they are afforded annual leave, they do represent the club, the AFL and their own public image 24/7. The AFL can pull their morality or public image clauses whenever they like as soon as things are made public.

I believe AFL cares more about this than other issues because they really want to have a squeaky clean image when it comes to sexual misconduct and women. I am pretty confident that if there was no sex dolls, this wouldn't have been an issue for the AFL.
Why the other fines then?
 
The most extraordinary part of this is Conor Idon being fined for doing a act from a popular movie that I would guess may on this board have watched many times. Tarantino treatment of a sensitive subjective is ironic, funny, moving at times but filled with gauge, over the top violence and mayhem. Its irreverent. For me I love his dialogue but sometimes the violence is too slapstick.

Now the AFL, in this case I will guess the majority of people involved in handing down sanctions are white middles class people. Obviously Dillon is. Its stunningly wrong to me that they feel they can judge a black man, who took the time to discuss this with the other black men before going ahead, for dressing up as a black character to do a scene from Django.

This is a serious overstep by the AFL and too me extremely ignorant. They have no right to make this judgement.
About 20 years ago a bunch of guys did a jackson five impersonation on hhis red faces . Harry connick jnr almost caused the show to close down as he was offended as a judge

The kicker was that the guys were indian med students
 
Idun asked for permission first and he's black himself.
The rape stuff absolutely should be condemned but I can't believe Idun is attracting any sort of punishment for Django.
 
The most extraordinary part of this is Conor Idon being fined for doing a act from a popular movie that I would guess may on this board have watched many times. Tarantino treatment of a sensitive subjective is ironic, funny, moving at times but filled with gauge, over the top violence and mayhem. Its irreverent. For me I love his dialogue but sometimes the violence is too slapstick.

Now the AFL, in this case I will guess the majority of people involved in handing down sanctions are white middles class people. Obviously Dillon is. Its stunningly wrong to me that they feel they can judge a black man, who took the time to discuss this with the other black men before going ahead, for dressing up as a black character to do a scene from Django.

This is a serious overstep by the AFL and too me extremely ignorant. They have no right to make this judgement.
One thing you'll notice watching Tarantino movies is the way violence is portrayed towards victims vs perpetrators is completely different. The slapstick violence is reserved for the latter. For the former he's actually a lot more reserved and shies away from showing it in an exploitative way, often it's more suggestive and disturbing.

I find the punishment over the Django stuff to be the most perplexing.
 
The fact that it was a private function matters, but the staff deserve a safe workplace as well.

I have no idea what they dressed up as or did. But if I employed staff at a pub and they complained about people dressing up say as Hitler or Stalin or something then they'd have my support to spit in their beers.
 

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Have no issue with the AFL coming down and the punishments here. In the same boat as many others here and if I did this myself at any form of work event, I’d be out the door instantly.

Whoever thought those scenarios and dress ups are funny I think need to reconsider their values.

Sexual assault, abuse and 9/11 aren’t some dress up joke and make fun of thing.
 
The most extraordinary part of this is Conor Idon being fined for doing a act from a popular movie that I would guess may on this board have watched many times. Tarantino treatment of a sensitive subjective is ironic, funny, moving at times but filled with gauge, over the top violence and mayhem. Its irreverent. For me I love his dialogue but sometimes the violence is too slapstick.

Now the AFL, in this case I will guess the majority of people involved in handing down sanctions are white middles class people. Obviously Dillon is. Its stunningly wrong to me that they feel they can judge a black man, who took the time to discuss this with the other black men before going ahead, for dressing up as a black character to do a scene from Django.

This is a serious overstep by the AFL and too me extremely ignorant. They have no right to make this judgement.
Yes. He should honestly sue them to expose their idiocy and hypocrisy. I bet the dimwits responsible for this decision wouldn’t be able to even locate Ghana on a map, let alone recall anything about how it - the place where his family is from - was affected by slavery.

Would they fine an aboriginal player $5k for performing a skit about the frontier wars? Because it’s completely analogous.
 
What sort of loser dresses up in a costume enacting the September 11 bombings??? Thank god they went out straight sets. Losers galore.

That is not political correctness, that is just disgraceful.

I am the last person who believes in the laughable crazy political correctness from people getting constantly offended on other peoples behalf, but this is not that.

You don’t go around dressing yourself up as a terrorist attack… very low character

Close to 200 million people were killed in wars in the 20th century and we've been lampooning them for decades.

Have a bex and a lie down.
 
Idun asked for permission first and he's black himself.
The rape stuff absolutely should be condemned but I can't believe Idun is attracting any sort of punishment for Django.
Agree 100% with this, the SA stuff is totally egregious

I assumed it was Django when I read the article, and given Idun is black I’d assumed he was the instigator and thought it was harmless and funny

One of my best friends girlfriends is black and some of the self deprecating jokes she makes about herself are totally non-PC

She named herself a slur at Ballers Clubhouse on the virtual darts for example

A lot of us love controversial humour and some black people love playing on the discomfort it generates when they make a self-deprecating or racially themed joke about their own race in a group of non-blacks

I find it hilarious and think Idun/Whitfield deserve no punishment
 

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And how anyone could take exception to epidemic being used to describe how big an issue DV is in Australia is staggering. Not gonna botner with the whataboutism that follows. Your clear views on this topic tells me you're someone I want absolutely nothing to do with, so peace out.
LOL. Nice rational argument
 
No surprise here that the only ones offended by this and backing the AFL are also the worst type of people imaginable. A roll call of the worst of the worst in this thread, a bunch of chronically online losers who will wax on about standards and morality while probably charging back their Uber Eats order despite there being nothing wrong with it or taking gift cards out of the wishing well at a friends wedding. Bottom of the barrel individuals who just want others to feel the pain that they have in their hearts. Sick
they are referred as the "tolerant left"for a reason
 
So because the afl accept gambling revenue, they are precluded from having an opinion on anything else, right?

Yes. 100% yes.

How many lives are destroyed by gambling?

How many lives were destroyed by this private party?

Its pretty ****ing simple. The AFL has no moral high ground on literally anything.
 

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