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22 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

It's common human decency and respect for others.

Has not Australia always prided itself on the maxim of a fair go for everybody?

Still don't need PC politics and posturing shoved down my throat.
Just get on with the game and hope Kozzie kicks 5.

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36 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

That's the part of you that needs work.

Yeah you're right. Perhaps you could come around and sung Kumbayah with me.

That'll fix everything

 

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1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

But part of me also says Koz should toughen up a bit.

FFS.

Imaging jumping on the internet to anonymously tell a 20 year old Indigenous AFL footballer they need to 'toughen up a bit' in the face of the racism they've faced all their life.

Pathetic comment and it's sad that you will never have the self awareness to even think about what you said.

 

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17 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Yeah you're right. Perhaps you could come around and sung Kumbayah with me.

That'll fix everything

 

This is [censored] poor Jnr. You're far better then this mate.

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1 hour ago, Fork 'em said:

Still don't need PC politics and posturing shoved down my throat.
Just get on with the game and hope Kozzie kicks 5.

There are two things that I’d like to say about that comment.

The use of ‘Political Correctness’ is one of the biggest misnomers in public discourse today, and has been bastardized from what it started off as.

Initially, it was a means to make language more inclusive, and to take the implicit bias out of certain terms. For example, ‘chairman’ became ‘chairperson’ and ‘air stewardess’ became ‘flight attendant’. Fairly banal stuff really.

It has been unfortunately conflated with what now passes as ‘progressive’ politics, which in turn has been conflated with any type of attempts to achieve equity, inclusivity or fairness. Previously, these attempts were made by both sides of politics, based on a mutually held acknowledgment of what our shared challenges were. The only difference was that both sides differed on how we solved said challenges.

Alas, for some, the issue is no longer the approach taken, but whether the problem as it is described is as stated. Or if it is as described, whether it really is that big a problem. Or, if one is particularly despicable, it’s secretly approving of the injustice, but engaging in sophistry and obfuscation to make reality unrecognizable. 

In short: pure gaslighting. Something that has been making regular appearances in these threads. I’m reading it here as we speak.

Secondly, politics touches our lives regardless of whether we like it or not. As it has been said elsewhere, the ‘personal is political’ because our immediate environment is partially determined by the political zeitgeist we live in. Partisanship (one party/ideology competing to beat the other) is another matter, but the idea that a society can be completely detached from the political context (the emergence of issues/obstacles/challenges and discussion as to how to handle/discuss them) it exists in is rocky at best.

The better question to be asked is if so called PC politics (as described earlier) shouldn’t exist in sports period, shouldn’t establishment politics either?

I wholeheartedly support the ANZAC day matches as I understand troops get sent where their governments send them, and that one can firmly disapprove of a mission but not the person dispatched. However, I wonder how the ‘keep PC politics out of sport’ crowd would react should someone assert that ANZAC Day football is a celebration of colonialism, militarism, xenophobia and jingoism, and these values are partisan, right wing and unacceptable in a multicultural and tolerant society? I am merely playing devil’s advocate here, but judging what happened to Yassmin Abdel-Magied, I’m guessing their reaction would not be so restrained. 

To me, those who make the call to ‘keep PC out of sports’ are happy if values are expressed through sports, so long as it’s their own values.

P.S. That said, there were probably a few other reasons the reactionary media complex and their assorted troglodytes and acolytes went after Yassmin with as much venom as they did. We all know those reasons. Bear that in mind in regards to the treatment Kozzie got on SNS.

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, Supermercado said:

I reckon we should use the back of this year's indigenous jumper (without the player names) as the back of our regular jumper. Looks great, doesn't impact on the front design, and would make us the first side (?) to have a permanent indigenous presence on the jumper.

I would rather see the AFL have the red, black and yellow somehow incorporated in the design of all club guernseys; perhaps as a border around the bottom?

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1 hour ago, Fork 'em said:

I don't need PC politics shoved down my throat whenever I watch the football thanks.

I understand your desire to enjoy the game in the vacuum of your moral sanctity. However, seeing you feel the need to attempt to trump a perfectly reasonable discussion on how best the show support for one of our own players with illiberal ideology, I’d like to take the opportunity to call out your cynical use of the term political correctness as a fig-leaf of naked prejudice and a smoke screen for regressivism.
To demonise the term, is not a passive cry for freedom of speech or political thought, but a means of suppression for those who care to think outside their own bubble and more specifically those who face discrimination on a consistent basis. 

The antonym of political correctness is political incorrectness, a concept that one who usually writes in an intelligent and well meaning way, I’m sure sees as an oversight. 

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52 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Yeah you're right. Perhaps you could come around and sung Kumbayah with me.

That'll fix everything

 

Three cheers for nihilism!

Hip, hip….

Not much point. Seems kinda contradictory to the whole exercise.

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42 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

There are two things that I’d like to say about that comment.

The use of ‘Political Correctness’ is one of the biggest misnomers in public discourse today, and has been bastardized from what it started off as.

Initially, it was a means to make language more inclusive, and to take the implicit bias out of certain terms. For example, ‘chairman’ became ‘chairperson’ and ‘air stewardess’ became ‘flight attendant’. Fairly banal stuff really.

It has been unfortunately conflated with what now passes as ‘progressive’ politics, which in turn has been conflated with any type of attempts to achieve equity, inclusivity or fairness. Previously, these attempts were made by both sides of politics, based on a mutually held acknowledgment of what our shared challenges were. The only difference was that both sides differed on how we solved said challenges.

Alas, for some, the issue is no longer the approach taken, but whether the problem as it is described is as stated. Or if it is as described, whether it really is that big a problem. Or, if one is particularly despicable, it’s secretly approving of the injustice, but engaging in sophistry and obfuscation to make reality unrecognizable. 

In short: pure gaslighting. Something that has been making regular appearances in these threads. I’m reading it here as we speak.

Secondly, politics touches our lives regardless of whether we like it or not. As it has been said elsewhere, the ‘personal is political’ because our immediate environment is partially determined by the political zeitgeist we live in. Partisanship (one party/ideology competing to beat the other) is another matter, but the idea that a society can be completely detached from the political context (the emergence of issues/obstacles/challenges and discussion as to how to handle/discuss them) it exists in is rocky at best.

The better question to be asked is if so called PC politics (as described earlier) shouldn’t exist in sports period, shouldn’t establishment politics either?

I wholeheartedly support the ANZAC day matches as I understand troops get sent where their governments send them, and that one can firmly disapprove of a mission but not the person dispatched. However, I wonder how the ‘keep PC politics out of sport’ crowd would react should someone assert that ANZAC Day football is a celebration of colonialism, militarism, xenophobia and jingoism, and these values are partisan, right wing and unacceptable in a multicultural and tolerant society? I am merely playing devil’s advocate here, but judging what happened to Yassmin Abdel-Magied, I’m guessing their reaction would not be so restrained.

To me, those who make the call to ‘keep PC out of sports’ are happy if values are expressed through sports, so long as it’s their own values.

 

 

 

 

28 minutes ago, Demi Dee said:

I understand your desire to enjoy the game in the vacuum of your moral sanctity. However, seeing you feel the need to attempt to trump a perfectly reasonable discussion on how best the show support for one of our own players with illiberal ideology, I’d like to take the opportunity to call out your cynical use of the term political correctness as a fig-leaf of naked prejudice and a smoke screen for regressivism.
To demonise the term, is not a passive cry for freedom of speech or political thought, but a means of suppression for those who care to think outside their own bubble and more specifically those who face discrimination on a consistent basis. 

The antonym of political correctness is political incorrectness, a concept that one who usually writes in an intelligent and well meaning way, I’m sure sees as an oversight. 

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27 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

 

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😂 A well balanced and humorous response, although I’m not sure how your girlfriend would feel about being featured so prominently. I guess she’s used to cleaning up your messes. 

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11 minutes ago, Demi Dee said:

😂 A well balanced and humorous response, although I’m not sure how your girlfriend would feel about being featured so prominently. I guess she’s used to cleaning up your messes. 

I'd prefer her to you.

 

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Just now, leave it to deever said:

Trac putting on a clinic.

Come back over to Gameday thread, Deevs. 🙂

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6 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

FFS.

Imaging jumping on the internet to anonymously tell a 20 year old Indigenous AFL footballer they need to 'toughen up a bit' in the face of the racism they've faced all their life.

Pathetic comment and it's sad that you will never have the self awareness to even think about what you said.

 

You can have your view but don't misrepresent what I say. You sound like the MIss Universe pageant where they all wish for world peace.

Great sentiment but real life is tougher than that.  I happen to think resilience is also a big part of this. Its not going away sadly.

We have to teach him to deal with this as well as do everything we can to call it out.

Life has a lot of hurdles and much if it isn't pretty.

So yeah you can sing Kumbayah too. It's horrible that he has to deal with it but I think our support is helping to teach him resilience as well.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

You can have your view but don't misrepresent what I say. You sound like the MIss Universe pageant where they all wish for world peace.

Great sentiment but real life is tougher than that.  I happen to think resilience is also a big part of this. Its not going away sadly.

We have to teach him to deal with this as well as do everything we can to call it out.

Life has a lot of hurdles and much if it isn't pretty.

So yeah you can sing Kumbayah too. It's horrible that he has to deal with it but I think our support is helping to teach him resilience as well.

You're welcome to rock up to the club on Monday and offer to teach Kozzy how to deal with racism.

Pathetic comments from you that show your lack of understanding of the subject. Rather than dig in and make it worse you should step back from the keyboard and have a proper think about what you're saying. No one has 'misrepresented' it.

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22 hours ago, faultydet said:

That's not annoyingly lefty at all Skuit.

100% reasonable.

I'm sure Koz is feeling the full support of his club at this time. 

Hey Faulty - I'll be honest, when I saw that you responded to my comment I was prepping for an online stoush. Your response gives me greater insight to your character. We obviously don't agree on most things political, but let's share a beverage next time you're up north in Cairns, if you fancy. Ronnie. 

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On 8/15/2021 at 6:05 AM, Supermercado said:

I reckon we should use the back of this year's indigenous jumper (without the player names) as the back of our regular jumper. Looks great, doesn't impact on the front design, and would make us the first side (?) to have a permanent indigenous presence on the jumper.

The 2020 one would barely impact the aesthetic at all, and can make a permanent statement. Designed by Nev. Add new boys as they come. Someone should email the club. Or 2019. We've definitely won the indigenous guernsey premiership.  

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