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MRP / Trib. Will Powell (GC Suns) Banned for 5 rounds for using a homophobic slur during their loss to Brisbane.

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It's unhelpful to make essentialist statements like "X is a bigot" and instead better to call out the specific behavior, like "X's words were bigoted". Someone shouldn't be defined by something they did - and everyone should be encouraged to learn and grow and be forgiven.

Plus, it gives the people arguing in bad faith (like in this thread) no opportunity to play the victim.
How many uses of bigoted language from him before we're allowed to call him a bigot?
 
It's unhelpful to make essentialist statements like "X is a bigot" and instead better to call out the specific behavior, like "X's words were bigoted". Someone shouldn't be defined by something they did - and everyone should be encouraged to learn and grow and be forgiven.

Plus, it gives the people arguing in bad faith (like in this thread) no opportunity to play the victim.
Would you be arguing semantics if he called another player a n*****.
 
Lol at you thinking it's some kind of win because reasonable people don't engage with stupid opinions.

The below post succinctly destroys all of the stupid arguments being used in this thread. But you can keep playing the victim all you want.
It is not bigoted to disagree with the inconsistency applied to recent punishments of using slurs.

It is not bigoted to question whether the AFL would apply the same punishment (more than 5 games now that the increase for every new offence has been applied) to a star player at a bigger club

It is not bigoted to argue with those comparing an organised sporting game to a standard workplace. Yes, you may get fired for using a slur at your work. You probably won’t get tackled through your desk either.
 

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If you really think that then good for you. But be great to only see the absolute worst in people
It’s hardly seeing ‘the absolute worst in people’ to recognise that in 2024 there are not really any excuses for using homophobic language.
 
It’s hardly seeing ‘the absolute worst in people’ to recognise that in 2024 there are not really any excuses for using homophobic language.
i do agree with that.

but 5 weeks is too much, and really what will it do? people see others on death row, the murder rate is still high.

id reckon a week, a huge fine, education and some kind of relative community service.
 

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i do agree with that.

but 5 weeks is too much, and really what will it do? people see others on death row, the murder rate is still high.

id reckon a week, a huge fine, education and some kind of relative community service.
Happy with the suspension.
 

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