Major brands and sports codes endorse statement condemning booing of Adam Goodes

A cluster of privileged, inner-city bourgeois Lefties, who are rich enough to not be affected by anything they advocate, are buying into a nonsense non-issue, using their employer’s funds. It will fail.
Brands and organisations listed above are in it for the money and influence, and nothing else – everyone knows that.
Goodes is a fine footballer. He tried to build his personal brand by using race politics as a wedge. A pretty cheap and nasty tactic, unworthy of him. Clearly, people with vested interests have influenced him with poor advice. Now his “brand” is seriously damaged.
The footy fans saw straight through the ruse, and let him know it.
In the same breath they cheer and roar approval for all other players of Aboriginal background.
So where does this end? If they boo someone or Irish descent, it’s racist too?
Do European opera fans who love to boo their disapproval need to check the racial background of everybody on stage?
Is booing to be banned by the PC Police?
Everyone needs to get over themselves, leave their pretentious, ostentatious virtue at the door, and get back to enjoying sport.

Nice work to everybody involved.

Nick and 303, well done and take care.

Mike: Nonsense.

MIke… If it is a “non issue” – why do you care? Why did you write this?… What are you contributing to society? The Right to Boo? … congratulations. You’re winning.

^^ wow so much hate.

This one has me stumped. I understand the ‘turning your back on racism’ marketing direction but isn’t a whole supporter crowd turning their backs towards the field considered a show of disrespect and contempt by the supporters for what’s happening on the field?

So these companies promote grown men using a 13 year old girl as their own personal vilifcation to supposed racism? They cry over generic words used by white man, yet feel free of any negative emotions when they use those same words amongst and about themselves? Adam Goodes is a decent man, however, he is a product of supporting reverse racism….and companies support that? Adam Goodes needs to be educated about racism…..it is treating everyone equally, so what is good for him and ‘his people’, as such, is good enough for the rest of us! Or does racism only work, if a non white states it is so?
And as for the booing…..get it right….if anything…it is bullying, not racism! Although bad sportmanship comes under the heading of ‘right to show disgust’, which has been around since ancient times.. Adam has been taught to feel ‘gutted’ if a white person says ‘ape’ to him….God only knows why….try teaching him to stand tall and be proud of who he is, without trying to race beat people into respecting him….he has the respect for who he is, not what race he is…..if I only had respect for him because of his race, I would, indeed be racist!

@Mike – in footy, crowds boo a player when they do something perceived to be unfair (like a cheap head high shot on an opponent), or because they want to put a player off (lining up for a kick at goal), or think they are unsportsmanlike (like taking a dive to get a free kick), or because they switched teams (like how Hawthorn boo their ex-player Buddy Franklin). This is all part of a footy atmosphere, and the booing goes for about 10seconds at a time, or perhaps till the end of that game in the case of a cheap high shot.

The mass booing of Adam Goodes falls into none of these categories. He gets booed just for touching the ball. Tell me any player, in any sport, anywhere, who gets that sort of relentless treatment.

Some FACTS on this issue, for you to digest:

* Adam Goodes has been playing AFL for around 18 years.
* For about 16 years, he was just another player going around
* No mass booing of Adam Goodes occured for these 16 years.
* The mass crowd booing started – immediately AFTER he pointed out a racist comment from a girl in the crowd
* The mass crowd booing has continued ever since.
* There are no other instances of mass booing of any player, ever that extends over matches and seasons.

This is not about banning people’s right to boo at the footy. This is not political correctness gone mad, as you believe.

This is about respect for a fellow human being, who is being bullied by the continous mass crowd booing every time he touches the ball. It is clearly affecting him, and a decent thing to do would be to stop contributing to the mass booing.

It’s all goode

Mike, So Goodes is called an Ape and calls out the person in the crowd. He shows great empathy to that person nevertheless, like the true sportsman and gentleman that he is. Then, at another game where booing (mainly because white, rich influential bigots have influenced the mob to do so, via their media and broadcasts), oh and more racist remarks, Goodes displays an indigenous war dance, after scoring a goal. Mike, you say Goodes is using ‘race politics’ to define his brand?

Mike, Adam Goodes is on the receiving end of what Australia’s indigenous have been on ever since white Europeans arrived. Continually ostricised by influential bigots. Mike, I can’t comment on how influential you are, however you are racist. If you cannot see that Goodes is one of the good guys, then the propaganda machine has worked wonders on you.

“Goodes is a fine footballer. He tried to build his personal brand by using race politics as a wedge. A pretty cheap and nasty tactic, unworthy of him.”

Oh, I see. So Goodes is doing all this for his personal brand? He’s not doing it because he recognises racism and wants to make a positive difference in the world?

Corporates bandwagoning the issue, may well be “A cluster of privileged, inner-city bourgeois Lefties”, but you’re [edited under Mumbrella’s comment moderation policy]

There is still a debate out there as to whether the booing was racist or not. It’s certainly not a done deal that the targeting of Goodes is racist, although that certainly arguable. Given that, should SBS as a taxpayer funded broadcaster be taking a position on this? The statement goes beyond just condemning racism, it is stating as a fact that the crowd’s actions were racist. The latter is a matter of controversy.

The crowd’s own chosen show of support — a standing ovation in the 7th minute of the 3rd quarter — was a 1000x more positive and authentic than 303Lowe’s odious “turn your backs on the Auskick kids at half time” campaign. But the pamphlets made great paper planes, so cheers for that.

Thanks Steven – you’ve just summed up exactly what I wanted to say but couldn’t articulate!

Turn your back on the halftime entertainment to show support for Goodes? Huh?
This was a nonsensical and embarrassing protest idea.

Steven, you are pretty much spot on.

I arrived shortly before the bounce and had received the “Turn Your Back on Racism” flyer outside the ground. I thought it odd, but thought it good that action had being organised.

At half time we stood with our backs to the field then thought … what next. A bit of a let-down.

Then 7 minutes into the third quarter there was this noise building. I thought something was happening out on the ground, but couldn’t see what it was.

Having arrived pretty late I had no idea about the #37 campaign for the third quarter and the seventh minute. Then it clicked – it was a show of support for Goodesy. Many around me hadn’t heard about it either (I think it was just one guy and handmade placard), so I stood up was yelling to those around me out “Stand Up, Stand Up and show your support”. To see and hear 38,000+ people standing and applauding Adam Goodes was pretty spine-tingling. Seriously, it was up there with 2005 and 2012.

So maybe lessons have been learnt. Maybe things may change a little quicker. One can only hope.

Then we get comments like Mike and DA’s. 469 years ago John Heyward wrote “There are none so blind as those who will not see.” How prescient that all those years later Mike and DA demonstrate just how right Heyward was. Mike, you must really miss the days when you could not only boo, bully and abuse, but also throw your beer bottles and cans.