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when eddie said he didn't like your teddy you knew he was a no good kid

May 30, 2013 23:51

[High profile Australian football club president/veteran media figure] Eddie McGuire apologises for [indigenous football player] Adam Goodes King Kong gaffeEddie McGuire has apologised for suggesting Adam Goodes be used to promote the musical King Kong, just days after the Collingwood president apologised for a racist taunt directed at the Sydney ( Read more... )

race / racism, white people, sports, *trigger warning: racism, australia, indigenous people

Comments 14

lozbabie May 30 2013, 14:10:54 UTC

It would be bad enough if he made this comment out of the blue. But after this week with all the controversy it's just inexcusable. And if you're going to make this comment when tired, you are a racist.

While I believe the 13 year old was being racist, I've been really uncomfortable with her face being everywhere, from her name being everywhere, to being interrogated by security for two hours without a guardian present. And her mother being in the media constantly isn't helping. Whole thing is a cluster fuck.

Adam Goodes has been so eloquent through this. Huge admiration for him, and good on Harry O'Brien and Nic Nat for his twitter comments calling out McGuire.

mahsox_mahsox May 30 2013, 23:54:16 UTC

Yeah, the way she has been dealt with is way out of step with the usual Australian practices of legal justice when it comes to 13 year olds who screw up. Oddly enough, if she'd actually been charged with something I think there would have been a better chance of keeping the media intrusiveness
to an acceptable level.

soundczech May 31 2013, 02:22:59 UTC

Yeah. I thought it was kind of sad that the best advocate for the 13 year old girl was the man she racially abused in the first place.

thecityofdis May 30 2013, 15:18:13 UTC

gdi your subject line

that's going to be stuck in my head all effing day now

soundczech May 31 2013, 02:25:10 UTC

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thecityofdis May 31 2013, 02:27:30 UTC

oh, you are wicked

i like you

soundczech May 31 2013, 02:45:30 UTC

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Thread 5

underlankers May 30 2013, 15:42:07 UTC

Yeah, I don't see how anyone looks at King Kong analogies directed at POCs and says "But that's not racist, honest."

lamardeuse May 30 2013, 15:53:17 UTC

That's "clarifying the meaning", is it? Sounds more like "being caught with your pants down and babbling nonsense a mile a minute to try to cover it up".

otana May 30 2013, 17:56:22 UTC

"We acknowledge that a comment made by Eddie McGuire on Triple M’s Hot Breakfast show this morning may have been interpreted by some listeners as being racist," the statement reads.

How about "by fucking everyone"?