Racial abuse in Australian junior football
It's common worldwide. Sport tends to wind people up and some act incautiously in the heat of the moment as a result. Should not be taken too seriously
"A COUNTRY football umpire is the latest figure to be involved in a racial vilification case this year. He is alleged to have racially abused a player in a North Gippsland Football League match last weekend. The player was from Woodside Football Club, playing Cowwarr.
It is alleged the umpire racially taunted the indigenous player during the last quarter before the player retaliated by kicking a ball at the umpire's head.
North Gippsland league general manager Gordon Bailey said the issue was disappointing. "We got a complaint from Woodside about the alleged vilification of one of their players by an umpire," Bailey said. "The umpire and his association have agreed to attend a mediation session. Hopefully it will take place sooner rather than later."
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3 comments:
The umpire should be fired for stupidity, if nothing else.
Team sports are nothing more than ritualized warfare. Sometimes it's a good safety-valve; other times it provokes "inter-tribal" violence, especially when the spectators are fueled by alcohol and testosterone (although the players themselves are not unknown to go beserk)!
Names get used more for effect than for belief. You may, for example, have many fine fat friends whom you admire, but let a fat person tick you off and see if you don't then use "fat" as an insult. Even fat people themselves do this.
Racial insults these days usually (tho not always) follow the same pattern. The overreaction to them is based in politics and the grievance industry.
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