06-09-2021, 03:22 AM
How do you establish who is booing for racist reasons and who isn't ? Does such a question even make sense ? If 10,000 people are booing Goodes, do you ask for a show of hands as to which have racism as a motive ? Can you even tease out such reasoning ? 1000 people boo because every one else is doing it, 1000 boo because they don't like the Swans, 1000 because he stages, 1000 because of his hair cut................. If no one owns up to it, is it just a figment of Goodes' imagination ? Do people even have a proper way of connecting their thoughts, opinions, actions to racism ? Do the victim's feelings and opinions count i.e if he feels he is being racially targeted, isn't that enough ? If the field is part of his workplace, and he no longer feels safe there, isn't that in itself a big problem ?
Frankly, I don't think he's a sook, I don't think he has an overactive imagination, and I don't think he was bothered about boing in general. He feels that something changed when he started taking more of a stand and becoming more outspoken on this issue, and I'm inclined to believe him. When you have McGuire making his King Kong comments, and you have people of Facebook making racist comments after his appearance in a David Jones campaign, you figure he has a point.
Frankly, I don't think he's a sook, I don't think he has an overactive imagination, and I don't think he was bothered about boing in general. He feels that something changed when he started taking more of a stand and becoming more outspoken on this issue, and I'm inclined to believe him. When you have McGuire making his King Kong comments, and you have people of Facebook making racist comments after his appearance in a David Jones campaign, you figure he has a point.