Thread: #istandwithadam

Social media campaign rallies for Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes




As Sydney Swans players prepared to run through a banner adorned with the simple word "RESPECT", youngsters, footballers, actors and well known Australians threw their support behind Adam Goodes and the #istandwithadam campaign promoted by Fairfax Media on Saturday.

Goodes, who is on leave after being continually booed at football matches, has received strong support from Fairfax Media through The Age and Sydney Morning Herald editorials declaring their support for #istandwithadam.

Actors Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxborough and Peter Phelps as well as other well known Australians, including Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Greens MP Sarah Hanson-Young and TV personality Georgie Gardner, on Saturday sent videos to Fairfax Media backing the #istandwithadam campaign. Actors Les Hill and Paula Duncan also stepped up, emailing in their support.

All of the Melbourne football players wore the colours of the Aboriginal flag in tape on their limbs, mostly at their wrists, while indigenous player Travis Varcoe of Collingwood wore an Aboriginal flag taped to his bicep.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews backed the Fairfax Media campaign with his own call to action: "My challenge to the people of Victoria or those at the SCG this weekend is this: if the person next to you starting booing - call them out It's wrong, it's not in the spirit of the game and it's not in the spirit of our nation," he said.
Elaine Carbines, chief of Geelong business group G21, described The Age's coverage as inspirational.

ctor Les Hill, writing from Los Angeles, described himself as a Swans fan: "My family is of indigenous heritage, and are related to the Ella brothers, proud Australian athletes who never had to put up with (to my knowledge) the disgraceful behaviour that AG is dealing with.
"The current situation, in my opinions, is bringing to a head important points and questions about who we are as a nation. As people, and as a nation.
But it should not be at one good mans expense. It is not his burden."
Paula Duncan wrote: "A great sportsman, a fine man who has given and contributed so much to our Australian community, demonstrated great spirit in promoting inclusion and acceptance in diversity and respect for others. Australian of the year, I stand right behind Adam Goodes."
Writers like Hannah Kent and human rights activists Hugh de Kretser and David Mann also sent video messages and tweets in support of the #istandwithadam campaign.

Melbourne Radio 3AW talkback host Neil Mitchell has tweeted about Adam Goodes after he condemned Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews for calling booing fans "bigoted".
"How does he know that most of the people booing Adam Goodes are racist? How does he know what's in their head?" Mr Mitchell said earlier in the week.
But on Saturday he tweeted two posts saying Goodes was "hurt personally" and needed to be treated decently.



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this has been a media beatup from the start

oh look , sheep

AG - HTFU

Originally Posted by baldrick

this has been a media beatup from the start

The media have fuelled the flames. A man has been bullied out of playing this weekend, and possibly into retirement.

Australians do not like being exposed as racist rednecks, unfortunately, many are.

He's let the racists win by not playing, those boos should have fired him up, the pussy.

I guess he must be shit because the Aussies do have a history for being far more tolerant in racial matters than Britain or America.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

It's wrong, it's not in the spirit of the game and it's not in the spirit of our nation,"

Neither is being a pussy and not battling in sport

Someone should start a #grow some bollocks Adam campaign

There's some Ashes bait in there

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I guess he must be shit because the Aussies do have a history for being far more tolerant in racial matters than Britain or America.

Are you kidding, hunting aborigionals was only outlawed in 1936. Don't get me wrong I do generally like the convicts but many are also some of the most racist people I've met.

Xenophobic or patriotic is the word your looking for, I think stink

Yup my bad

He is booed because he is an arsehole not because he is HALF black.

^
Correct 100%
It is only news because he is a whinging half black arsehole.

*Some* are rabid racists.

Usually the poorly educated ones.

If everyone that got booed quit the game then we wouldn't have any umpires or referees in any sport.

He and Anthony Mundine don't get booed because of their colour, they get booed because they are both arseholes.

There are plenty of great Aboriginal athletes that get cheered.

I see that idiot thunderbird puppet Shane Warne has been spectacularly missing the point.

Originally Posted by Stinky

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I guess he must be shit because the Aussies do have a history for being far more tolerant in racial matters than Britain or America.

Are you kidding, hunting aborigionals was only outlawed in 1936. Don't get me wrong I do generally like the convicts but many are also some of the most racist people I've met.

IMHO the confederate flag waving types in the US of A would get along better, in general, with Aussies than Brits. Just a generalization ... Of course.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Originally Posted by Stinky

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I guess he must be shit because the Aussies do have a history for being far more tolerant in racial matters than Britain or America.

Are you kidding, hunting aborigionals was only outlawed in 1936. Don't get me wrong I do generally like the convicts but many are also some of the most racist people I've met.

IMHO the confederate flag waving types in the US of A would get along better, in general, with Aussies than Brits. Just a generalization ... Of course.

We all have our share of flag waving racists, most of whom don't even understand why they are racist, but I think in Blighty we're a pretty tolerant buch on the whole, more so than most other euro zone countries.

Originally Posted by Ozcol

He is booed because he is an arsehole not because he is HALF black.

Why do you think he is an arsehole? Is it because he is an uppity nigger daring to complain about being called racist names?

It's Wigger

He's a sook....nobody likes a sook.......nawt to do with red, white, yellow or mexican.

nothing against mexicans.

if chopper was still alive.....still there's some vids of his he should watch.

If the reason s that he is a sook, why aren't 50.other afl players being booed like him???

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Is it because he is an uppity nigger daring to complain about being called racist names?

he is being trolled - you should go and comfort him and sooth his hurt feelings

he only is a sport player for fcuks sake - not like he does anything of importance

Originally Posted by baldrick

not like he does anything of importance

Think he's done a fair bit with disadvantaged & marginlized youth. ..

if I had an ounce of cynicism in my body I would say photo ops organised by his press team

Even James Packer stands with Adam

Adam Goodes hecklers make James Packer ?ashamed? to be an Australian as booing labelled bullying | News.com.au

The swans stand with Adam, as do the other teams.

Even GA and JT from NRL stand with Adam

Adam Goodes: Players, fans turn out at Swans match against Adelaide paying tribute to team-mate - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)