Behaviour at the Footy

[Ox]

Seriously everyone.

This current talk of RACISM is pure nonsense.

Hitler practiced Racism.

The guy at the footy who calls Krakouer a black idiot is just a moron.

Are you all that stupid or do u simply love playing into wasteful debates with no outcome??

FFS!

Hitler practiced genocide, huge difference, but agree it's a circular debate

True...based on race,creed and color.

I'd like to add,the times I have punched on with a bloke (Wog,colored whatever)
by the end of actual brawl i couldn't give a stuff what race he was.
If anything one probably feels a sense of empathy as well as respect for the opponent.

Good way to meet people an make good mates ??

[gerkin greg]

Did you bash JT? 

[TigerLand]

On one hand I think ge racism is bad just shouldn't happen.

But what I don't understand that if you break it down as simple as it can be:

Why is it acceptable to label someone a 'ranga' but you can't call someone a 'wog'?

Why is that? Having red hair is a type of race? Why is it different? Cause they haven't been slaughtered and repressed? You can't call and asian bloke a 'chink?" Asians have never been made slaves? Why is skin colour sacrosanct but hair colour isn't?

I seems double standards to me? I'm not condoning either one. I'm just saying society have it wrong in my opinion, it seems that their is one type of racism and then there is another.

I'm not really into stereotype insults whether your black, white, fat, muslim, gay, dog, cat or whatever if I don't like you and want to insult you i'll just call you a idiot.

[Penelope]

go out and see kevin bloody wilson before he is ostracised from our tolerant multiracial community.

pee funny and totally a PC free zone

[Dubstep Dookie]

Is this the calm before the storm I'm sensing?

[bojangles17]

No one condones racism but if its a grand final and your team is up by 5 points and the opposition player (say an aborginal player) takes the mark, the siren goes and hes lining up from the boundary line and your in the front row or a couple of seats back then 99% of the do gooders will be spewing forth with the filthiest, most racist comments imaginable. And everybody in here knows thats the truth.

Im sorry 10fl, don't speak for me in that regard...chewy on your boot you #$%$# sucking freak will do just fine

[Infamy]

go out and see kevin bloody wilson before he is ostracised from our tolerant multiracial community.

pee funny and totally a PC free zone

Much prefer Jim Jeffries & Jimmy Carr, download their DVDs from the web... seriously good humour

[Hellenic Tiger]

Eddie Murphy Raw and Delirious.

[Infamy]

I guess it depends on what kind of racism you are refering to. What is the intent? I've never used a racist term in anger or in a abusive way. I'll joke about racial stereotypes, but its never a vindictive thing. I find racist, homophobic and bigoted jokes funny but I'll even laugh about jokes about pedophilia & rape (watch Jimmy Carr's DVDs sometime ), so not sure if being able to laugh at those jokes makes me in anyway racist, or involved in racial abuse.
Actually the one exception to that is standard banter between mates, when having a laugh with the boys there is no limit as long as its jovial and without any malice then it's fair game.

Isn't that part of the issue Infamy? Some people will argue that it doesn't matter if it is vindictive or abusive they are still deemed (wrongly IMHO) as racist comments. I have friends who are indigenous and to be honest if some people heard the way we sometimes speak to one another I'd hung from the highest tree and tortured, the fact that my mate gives better than me seems to be irrelevant I am the only one who gets frowned upon 

I don't really care about the overly PC crowd who are trying to stop people from using colour as an adjective but I think a pretty clear line can be drawn regarding the origins of this debate. If you are using the colour of someone's skin, or any other race based stereotype as part of a sledge or insult then that is not on. If you don't know the person you are speaking to, then there is no place for it either, so any of the muppets out in the crowd need to get rid of it from their lexicon.

I remember a (what I thought was) funny incident where I was speaking with a group of friends and someone pointed out a Greek girl and said look at that stupid haircut (it was one of those half black half peroxide jobs like a block of top deck). One of the girls in the crowd accused the person who said it of being racist by saying she was Greek. That is stupid, she wasn't saying all Greeks have crap haircuts, she was just pointing out that the girl was Greek (she may not have been but she had a monobrow so there's a fair chance ). Those accusations of racism are just over the top, but I think when it comes to muppets yelling out at the football, it's pretty straight forward... zero tolerance.

[Infamy]

OX, as how weird you are some times, you're a fascinating bloke, would be good to have a beer with I reckon.

I reckon I'd need something stronger than a beer  

Johnnie Walker Black label or Chivas would do the trick  

Single malt only for me thanks, none of that blended stuff

Eddie Murphy Raw and Delirious.

Delerious is an all time classic, Raw could never live up to it


For a good example of Jimmy Carr, one of my favourites is
"They say there's safety in numbers. Yea? Tell that to 6 million Jews"

[gerkin greg]

chewy on your boot you #$%$# sucking freak will do just fine

  agree


one of the more recent epic sledges going around was to Sandilands lining up for goal

"hey Sandilands, you're going to die young you giant freak!"

clean and clever, like old Brucey's phallus

[10 FLAGS]

I guess it depends on what kind of racism you are refering to. What is the intent? I've never used a racist term in anger or in a abusive way. I'll joke about racial stereotypes, but its never a vindictive thing. I find racist, homophobic and bigoted jokes funny but I'll even laugh about jokes about pedophilia & rape (watch Jimmy Carr's DVDs sometime ), so not sure if being able to laugh at those jokes makes me in anyway racist, or involved in racial abuse.
Actually the one exception to that is standard banter between mates, when having a laugh with the boys there is no limit as long as its jovial and without any malice then it's fair game.

Isn't that part of the issue Infamy? Some people will argue that it doesn't matter if it is vindictive or abusive they are still deemed (wrongly IMHO) as racist comments. I have friends who are indigenous and to be honest if some people heard the way we sometimes speak to one another I'd hung from the highest tree and tortured, the fact that my mate gives better than me seems to be irrelevant I am the only one who gets frowned upon 

I don't really care about the overly PC crowd who are trying to stop people from using colour as an adjective but I think a pretty clear line can be drawn regarding the origins of this debate. If you are using the colour of someone's skin, or any other race based stereotype as part of a sledge or insult then that is not on. If you don't know the person you are speaking to, then there is no place for it either, so any of the muppets out in the crowd need to get rid of it from their lexicon.

I remember a (what I thought was) funny incident where I was speaking with a group of friends and someone pointed out a Greek girl and said look at that stupid haircut (it was one of those half black half peroxide jobs like a block of top deck). One of the girls in the crowd accused the person who said it of being racist by saying she was Greek. That is stupid, she wasn't saying all Greeks have crap haircuts, she was just pointing out that the girl was Greek (she may not have been but she had a monobrow so there's a fair chance ). Those accusations of racism are just over the top, but I think when it comes to muppets yelling out at the football, it's pretty straight forward... zero tolerance.

Racism is Racism. No excuses!

[gerkin greg]

there are no excuses for Nick Giannopoulos

[WilliamPowell]

Racism is Racism. No excuses!

Understand your point Flagman but....

Can I put forward this example to you and then ask the obvious question

As I mentioned I have a mate who's indigenous, if we are out and joking about like we always do and I call my mate say a "stupid black bug-ger" and he counters and calls me "a stupid white bug-ger" is that being racist?

Am I a racist? Is my mate a racist?

Do we have stop being how we've always been to appease others?

[Ox]

If i don't hire somebody because they're Greek then that's racism.

If i call them a Greek dog,it's not.

LOL-Wankas!