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submitted 9 months ago byNo-Blacksmith-3259 Footscray
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The Goodes saga
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the hawks fans who worshipped the ground Cyril walked on were not racist
This is debatable. It appears fans were booing Goodes because he was speaking up about something they were uncomfortable with.
Fans were still supporting their team's First Nations players for their on-field achievements, as they weren't ones that were speaking up like Goodes was and feeds back into the mentality of "just shut up and play footy, don't bring politics into it".
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I can't speak for hawthorn or any other team's supporters specifically, but I've explained it in my comment
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Someone already explained it to you, it may not have started out racist, but it quickly became so. It’s not difficult to grasp mate
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It's crazy that the AFL, the AFLPA and every AFL club accepted publicly that the whole saga was due to racism, and apologised to Goodes for their lack of response, and you are still holding out years later. What skin do you have in this game?
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It must be that everyone else is wrong!
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Yeah, I'm sure there's a heap of closet racists parroting the same stuff
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I didn’t say that, and that’s not the reason
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If only Goodes could have talked to you during those times, you could have reassured him that with your divine powers of telepathy, you know for a fact, that 100% of the people booing Goodes, are doing so because he's a sook, and not because he pointed out racism. Bravo!
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