Goodes and the unpleasant mirror of our nature

Updated July 31 2015 - 10:31am, first published July 30 2015 - 9:13pm

The ongoing debate over the booing of Adam Goodes not only casts a poor light on the mentality of crowds but it reveals a deeper problem with the nation’s ability to maturely approach its own weaknesses.  The usual squawking media commentators have come out to criticize Goodes for playing the victim card. Ironic when he is in fact the victim of racial targeting. Only those who have known that position can claim it. Moreover he comes from a race that is very much history’s victims. It is easy as part of the safe majority, blissfully wrapped in ignorance, to use a label like “victim culture” to dismiss otherwise incomprehensible suffering and unimaginable outrage. 

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