Timana Tahu
Some people dismiss political correctness too easily.
Political correctness, when we are protesting a person being demeaned publicly, is simply about insisting that people pay due respect to others. At one level, it is about insisting on civility. At a deeper level, it is about upholding fundamental values about what it means to be human and to have dignity.
I know that many Australians, and especially in my experience of sports clubs, many Australian men, think that racist comments aren’t racist – they’re just funny.
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Timana Tahu should be incredibly proud of himself and his family incredibly proud of him.
Not many people are prepared to put their money where there mouth is on issues of discrimination, and the impact of a player of Tahu’s stature taking the stand he has might mean something in the NRL actually changes.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if a player such as Tahu took a similar stand when instead of calling someone a “black c***”, like Andrew Johns did, a senior figure in the League calls someone a “dumb slut”?
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Silvia says:
Great to see that a story about sexism has been derailed by most of the commenters here, into talking about racism. This is what women see all the time on the internet, when any sane journalist has the guts to come out and say “Hey, what about sexism? Doesn’t that… Read more »
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Hona says:
I’m Maori and have lived in Australia the past 30 years with my wife and our 12 children. Our experience has been mostly positive although we have noticed some serious differences between how a Maori history has evolved in contrast to the indigenous history taught here in Australia. In 2000… Read more »
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