Scandal Racist fan throws banana at Eddie Betts

[Malifice]

Read the rest of my post. It's not my fault your reading comprehension is lacking. The previous poster asked for an example of when white people are ever referred to as monkeys. I gave one. I wasn't excusing the actions of this racist woman, in fact I decried them in the previous paragraph and said she should be banned. I was just correcting the misconception that monkey is exclusively a racist insult. We all know it carries more weight when used towards a black person.

You have just started a big promotion in a new employment in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Part of the perks is you get two new interns at your work. They both get you coffees, run errands, and do assorted menial chores for you. You jokingly refer to them both as your 'slaves'.

One is white. The other is black.

Same thing? Or something totally different?

Context is nearly as important as intent mate. I see you kinda get it here in this post, but lets not try and suggest (as you did above) that calling a white guy a monkey and a black guy a monkey carries the same context, even when the intent is otherwise pure.

 

[1990crow]

Banning her for life is so over the top.

What.

 

[Danger Zone]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-08-21/betts-treatment-angers-crows

AFL.com article confirming the life ban.

 

[HARKER]

Context is nearly as important as intent mate. I see you kinda get it here in this post, but lets not try and suggest (as you did above) that calling a white guy a monkey and a black guy a monkey carries the same context, even when the intent is otherwise pure.

If one can grasp this concept, then there'd be little further arguing on what is right and what is wrong.

 

[citizen-erased]

Banned for 2017 apparently

and should be. can't be throwing things at people paid to entertain us.

 

[PP34]

Head in the sand. Banana throwing and monkey noises directed at black players happens often in Turkey, Russia, Italy, and the Balkans, at the very least. It is always and entirely racist.



No, no we can't.

No. Go back and read my other posts. I'm well aware that players overseas have copped bananas. I was just saying that it's not like the n word or dressing up in blackface. Doesn't have a long history. The monkey part does.

 

[Armchair Critic]

What.

If it was a player they would not be banned for life, it is double standards. Didn't Will Minson make a racist remark not that long ago (I apologise Will if I am wrong) and what was his punishment again.

Ban her for a year and make her go and do some education or work with the indigenous if she wants to become a member or attend games again but banning her for life is over the top IMO

 

[SterlingArcher]

Banning her for life is so over the top.

Why? You **** up, you lose the privilege, it's not a right. No different to starting a fight in a bar and never being allowed back.

 

[Stumpy Pete]

Banning her for life is so over the top.

No it's not. Racism aside if I came to your work place and threw something at you I bet you they would permanently ban me from your place of work.

Her actions were wrong on a number of levels.

Regards

S. Pete

 

[JeffDunne]

If it was a player they would not be banned for life, it is double standards. Didn't Will Minson make a racist remark not that long ago (I apologise Will if I am wrong) and what was his punishment again.

Ban her for a year sure and make her go and do some education if she wants to become a member or attend games again but banning her for life is over the top IMO

Ummm . . . she threw something at a football player during a game.

That alone should get you a life ban from football. Never mind the racism.

 

[Malifice]

If it was a player they would not be banned for life, it is double standards. Didn't Will Minson make a racist remark not that long ago (I apologise Will if I am wrong) and what was his punishment again.

Ban her for a year and make her go and do some education or work with the indigenous if she wants to become a member or attend games again but banning her for life is over the top IMO

Its not just the comments mate. She pegged something at someone over the fence.

Go to the Opera and peg a bananna at a pianist and see how long your ban is for.

 

[Theo X]

All else aside, that was a pretty accurate throw.

 

[SterlingArcher]

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Nope.

We're in the 21st century.

Just as racism should stop, so should lynch mobs and ruining peoples lives beyond what is necessary.

Adelaide Oval, in conjunction with Port and Adelaide, will punish her. The rest of us should move on and concentrate on continuing to make footy welcoming for everyone.

 

[1990crow]

All else aside, that was a pretty accurate throw.

Jenkins did the team thing and protected eddie

 

[BornPort]

Nah, I've just known enough port supporters in my time to know that generalising them all as feral is pretty much on the money. No mistake.

I think you need to settle down a bit. You seem to have about as much class as this woman.

 

[Armchair Critic]

Its not just the comments mate. She pegged something at someone over the fence.

Go to the Opera and peg a bananna at a pianist and see how long your ban is for.

No thanks, I can't stand Opera

 

[HARKER]

But it's sickening that full grown adults - both the woman in question and people on this thread - don't understand the gravity of an act or a connotation that labels Indigenous people as "apes/monkeys etc."

These people need to do some ******* research. The connotation is that Indigenous people (or other black/native/indigenous groups elsewhere) are unevolved, backwards, unintelligent etc - it is by it's very definition racist. It's a particularly insidious connotation in Australia when you consider the fact that Indigenous people were considered "fauna" until 50 years ago, were unable to vote, were having their children taken away, and are still being treated as/considered second class citizens today.

It's bad enough that one ******* idiot at a footy game makes this insinuation. It's plain ******* disgusting that anyone, in the fullness of time and with the opportunity to properly consider their comments, would try and argue that this is not racist.

It's not until some of these people get called out by their own kids for being racist, that they may start to think about things.

Some actually wear their racism as a badge of honour and the more you poke the bear........

 

[STFU Donnie]

Hi all,

For those suggesting this is, to any degree, Eddie Betts' fault can you please explain to me how someone incites bigotry or racism in another person?

Ban her from attending any entertainment venue in the country.

Regards

S. Pete

Simply by being different is the main reason. Sadly.

 

[Clems Knee]

If it was a player they would not be banned for life, it is double standards. Didn't Will Minson make a racist remark not that long ago (I apologise Will if I am wrong) and what was his punishment again.

Ban her for a year and make her go and do some education or work with the indigenous if she wants to become a member or attend games again but banning her for life is over the top IMO

I understand what you are saying, but this isn't her workplace, like it is for a footballer.
A life ban is an appropriate message to society, and especially to the copycats who will follow her if nothing is done.
And unlike executions, life sentences can be reviewed down the track.

 

[Sweetback]

She would have gotten away with it if she was twelve.

 

[HARKER]

She would have gotten away with it if she was twelve.

Maybe but her parents shouldn't be so lucky.

 

[nobbyiscool]

It's not until some of these people get called out by their own kids for being racist, that they may start to think about things.

Maybe... I guess my fear is that stupid breeds stupid.

 

[Sweetback]

Maybe but her parents shouldn't be so lucky.

I was just being facetious. The Goodes girl was twelve.

 

[Andre the Giant]

Banning her for life is so over the top.

She has not yet been banned for life but I suspect she will.

Her behaviour was more appropriate in a correctional facility where I suspect she has spent time or will spend time in the future.

 

[PoppedCorn]

She should be invited to the port club and as she walks in everyone including players should be lined up and just stare at her as she hands her membership over to kochie

Then we should never hear about this dumbass again