HH3 wrote:Where one group of people are given a bigger advantage and assistance, just based on their race, and nothing else.
White people in every day life? Why, yes.
by Q. » Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:14 pm
HH3 wrote:Where one group of people are given a bigger advantage and assistance, just based on their race, and nothing else.
by cripple » Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:17 pm
by HH3 » Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:27 pm
Q. wrote:HH3 wrote:Where one group of people are given a bigger advantage and assistance, just based on their race, and nothing else.
White people in every day life? Why, yes.
by Psyber » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:05 pm
by saintal » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:59 pm
by westozfalcon » Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:10 pm
by cripple » Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:20 pm
by on the rails » Thu Jul 04, 2013 8:44 am
westozfalcon wrote:Can you imagine the NBA sending an all-Caucasian composite team out to Australia play the Boomers.
by whufc » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:45 am
cripple wrote:Pretty sure the NZRU have sent teams away as NZ Maori so this isn't a first by any stretch.
by Q. » Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:13 am
whufc wrote:cripple wrote:Pretty sure the NZRU have sent teams away as NZ Maori so this isn't a first by any stretch.
Yep but the don't call them the New Zealand All-blacks, they play under the NZ Maori banner
by whufc » Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:45 am
Q. wrote:whufc wrote:cripple wrote:Pretty sure the NZRU have sent teams away as NZ Maori so this isn't a first by any stretch.
Yep but the don't call them the New Zealand All-blacks, they play under the NZ Maori banner
Yeah, and our team is called the Indigenous All-Stars.
by Lightning McQueen » Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:05 pm
Hondo wrote:HH3 wrote:Apparently the AFL are sending an all Aboriginal team to Ireland
Is it racist to deny people the opportunity to play for their country because of the colour of their skin?
Serious question....
The answer to your question as you've conveniently worded it is of course, yes
But is that what an all-aboriginal team would be ... Australia's national team where white skinned people are denied the opportunity of playing for Australia? No.
We already have a National team for all sports that is not based on skin colour. Outside of the official national sides, in my mind you are allowed to make up teams however you want so long as the motivation is not racist referring to the definition I just posted. Who cares? Make an all red-headed team for all I care.
It's like saying an all-girls school is sexist.
by Dog_ger » Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:24 pm
Trader wrote:As we saw with the Adam Goodes Saga, the intention of the action doesn't matter, but how it is taken.
Given some people are offended by it, then the answer is clearly yes, it is racist.
by gadj1976 » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:19 pm
HH3 wrote:Failed Creation wrote:I agree with what you're saying. The question has to be asked.
If it was an all-white team (picked on that basis, of course) going to Ireland, there'd be a media uproar.
Yeah thats what I was thinking too.
It just seems the AFL seem to be over-complicating what "equality" is.
I saw this the other day. Kinda sums up what equality is.1000755_10151456946836010_1401416237_n.jpg
by whufc » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:21 pm
by cripple » Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:39 pm
by woodublieve12 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:25 am
Q. wrote:HH3 wrote:Where one group of people are given a bigger advantage and assistance, just based on their race, and nothing else.
White people in every day life? Why, yes.
by AFLflyer » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:52 am
by Q. » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:58 am
AFLflyer wrote:Arguments like this are pi## me off, especially coming from the white middleclass MAJORITY.
AFL has something unique in that 10% of the players are indigenous, nothing close to numbers in society. Why not celebrate that fact and get behind them.
To suggest this is racism is absurd!
The indigenous youth need these roll models to represent their culture on the world stage and give them something to inspire towards. Nothing but a positive move, even though its in a micky mouse competition.
by Hefty » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:19 pm
Q. wrote:HH3 wrote:Where one group of people are given a bigger advantage and assistance, just based on their race, and nothing else.
White people in every day life? Why, yes.
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