Stand by Goodes

**Ludwig** · 4th August 2015, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by AnnieH

I won't tolerate it from anyone. I grew up in a time where I was told daily that I'm a greasy @@@ and to go back to where I came from. I come from here. Enough is enough.

Racism stops right here, right now.

I'm sure you know from my posts over the years that I'm 100% behind you. What I've wanted to see for a long time is action taken against those media personages like Sam Newman, Dermott Brereton, Mark Fine and Eddie McGuire who have condoned the booing of Adam Goodes and by their support have encouraged racism. The Footy Show has been a disgrace in its racist, homophobic and sexist positions, although McGuire says it's the best thing that ever happened to football.

Listen to the support from the audience for Sam Newman's racist speech in this YouTube video and you'll see why the show should be pulled from the air.

**AnnieH** · 4th August 2015, 04:49 PM

There's no way I'm watching that.
I don't watch that garbage on principal and I'm not an enabler.
Marngrook is a much better show.

**Sandridge** · 4th August 2015, 04:51 PM

[QUOTE=Ludwig;678668]I'm sure you know from my posts over the years that I'm 100% behind you. What I've wanted to see for a long time is action taken against those media personages like Sam Newman, Dermott Brereton, Mark Fine and Eddie McGuire who have condoned the booing of Adam Goodes and by their support have encouraged racism. The Footy Show has been a disgrace in its racist, homophobic and sexist positions, although McGuire says it's the best thing that ever happened to football.

Listen to the support from the audience for Sam Newman's racist speech in this YouTube video and you'll see why the show should be pulled from the air.

Yes, it's galling to think that someone whose idea of comedy is getting his penis out on tv can feel entitled to call anyone else a jerk, let alone Goodesy.
And did you notice Newman's "look at me" costume when he participated in the Neil Daniher ice challenge to raise money for MNS a few weeks ago? And he thinks he's suitably qualified to make comments on race relations?

You can add Shane Warne, Alan Jones and Jason Akermanis to your list of media villains, Ludwig. And what do all of those guys have in common? Massive, massive egos. Egos that make them smugly impervious to criticism - "I got booed and it didn't bother me" - but also make them completely insensitive to the feelings of others. Sociopathic even. As Frances Leach said on the ABC last week, in the world of the AFL, philanderers, thugs and drug cheats don't get treated as badly as Goodesy has been. In fact, a lot of them end up being rewarded with jobs in the media!

**dejavoodoo44** · 4th August 2015, 05:17 PM

[QUOTE=Sandridge;678675]

Originally Posted by Ludwig

I'm sure you know from my posts over the years that I'm 100% behind you. What I've wanted to see for a long time is action taken against those media personages like Sam Newman, Dermott Brereton, Mark Fine and Eddie McGuire who have condoned the booing of Adam Goodes and by their support have encouraged racism. The Footy Show has been a disgrace in its racist, homophobic and sexist positions, although McGuire says it's the best thing that ever happened to football.

Listen to the support from the audience for Sam Newman's racist speech in this YouTube video and you'll see why the show should be pulled from the air.

Yes, it's galling to think that someone whose idea of comedy is getting his penis out on tv can feel entitled to call anyone else a jerk, let alone Goodesy.
And did you notice Newman's "look at me" costume when he participated in the Neil Daniher ice challenge to raise money for MNS a few weeks ago? And he thinks he's suitably qualified to make comments on race relations?

You can add Shane Warne, Alan Jones and Jason Akermanis to your list of media villains, Ludwig. And what do all of those guys have in common? Massive, massive egos. Egos that make them smugly impervious to criticism - "I got booed and it didn't bother me" - but also make them completely insensitive to the feelings of others. Sociopathic even. As Frances Leach said on the ABC last week, in the world of the AFL, philanderers, thugs and drug cheats don't get treated as badly as Goodesy has been. In fact, a lot of them end up being rewarded with jobs in the media!

Sociopaths? From a distance, I'd guess that both Jones and Newman would score very highly on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. While Akermanis and Warne are probably more along the lines of, larger than average ego, less than average intellect and far too much access to a microphone.

**giant** · 4th August 2015, 08:15 PM

It's hard not to think that those critics with a skerrick of self-respect won't look back on these comments in 10 years time and realise they got it horribly wrong. History won't be kind I suggest.

**Big Al** · 5th August 2015, 07:39 AM

A black man is deemed to be a jerk for standing up to racism and they tell all and sundry that it isn't about race. Yeah good luck convincing anyone with an IQ higher than a pot plant of that fact.

Giant is spot on. History won't be kind to these dickheads.

**Auntie.Gerald** · 5th August 2015, 09:05 AM

Sam

the weak will always hide in numbers

the racists that incite are only a small proportion of the booing crowd in my opinion

BUT now they have been exposed and they don't like it !

**Big Al** · 5th August 2015, 04:30 PM

**ScottH** · 5th August 2015, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Big Al

**Swansongster** · 5th August 2015, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by ScottH

It looked and sounded awesome on the TV.

I wonder if we can make this a regular thing?
How would it work away from home??

I would love to see this as a regular thing. The seventh minute of every third quarter we play. Much like WS Wanderers' fans celebrate with the Poznan for the whole of the 80th minute at every game they play (in memory of the first game of soccer played in western Sydney in 1880).

Could be a lasting legacy of this battle when No.37 is retired upon the retirement of Goodesy and a regular reminder to the rest of the league that racism has no place at the Sydney Swans or in the AFL.

Make it happen.

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