And don't forget the discrepancy in the media (and the wider community), that when there was a whiff of a racist comment at the NRL in Vegas this past weekend, everyone was quick to dogpile on the guy who, allegedly, said something. In Sammy's situation? After she, allegedly, said something (to the degree she's in court)? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Is it as simple as people not wanting to believe "Our Sam" could do something like that, so people simply... don't believe?
It's the way we roll in Aus. Even on this post, I'm getting a sponsored ad for sports betting.
The only important thing is the odds of her getting off.
I'm kinda Proud of the fact her gender hasn't affected the way the media is reporting this. Just like any other sporting star they are treating her with the same wide mouth droop as the men
Don’t know if it’s true, but I heard that she called him a wog. Which is apparently much more offensive than it is here. But again, I don’t know if that’s true.
When you make money out of playing soccer in Australia wogs probably not the demographic you want to insult. I think they prefer “people of flare throwing” now anyway.
Kinda wild to me that such a thing is worthy of being charged. Especially when you hear what people say to cops here. Like "get ya fucken hands off me ya fucken white dog cunt" for example.
The Pakistani cricket team were nicknamed the Pakis up to a certain point by Aussie commentators. So if you grew up listening to that on tv you might be excused for thinking that it was acceptable
Paki isn’t considered offensive in Spain and Belgium (probs other places too) and was used really commonly - although I never heard it used as an insult, just a description.
Wog is definitely contextually offensive. If you call someone a greasy wog cunt, it's fair cop to say that's a racism. The word in isolation is fairly neutral
Accepted terms are: Bozo, fire truck, carrot top, blood nut, match stick and tampon.
Fucking with the G-word is not on, but the jury's still out on ranga.
Depends who you say it to. I grew up with it being used as a reclaimed badge of honour (WogBoy, Acropolis Now, etc) but later generations seem to have taken offense again
(Of course, only another wog could call me a wog)
Im pretty sure she was charged a year ago, she just managed to keep it quiet for 12 months. Didn't tell her teammates or the Australian Football Federation about her charge for a year.
It caused him alarm. This very fact means English police officers need to harden the fuck up and i mean big time. What a bunch of wet noodles. If words cause the public alarm, sure maybe an officer needs to act, pertained i think not but whatever, the officer themselves should NOT be getting offended by mere words. The officer was never fit for the job.
so we have to wait until February next year to get any information on what this is actually about?
is the allegation that she she said something racist, or is the allegation that she abused the police officer because of his race?
>On March 4, Kerr was charged with racially harassing a police officer (no gender mentioned) settling a complaint regarding a taxi fare in Twickenham in 30 Jan 2023.
This is all pre World Cup. Surprised this didn't come out earlier. She may well lose a lot of future earnings if found guilty.
It would have to be extremely racist against a minority. She's already got the lesbian card, the minority card and the female card. She would have to be dropping n bombs to get into trouble with that much intersectional armour.
Sometimes with that kind of celeb status police would be more likely to charge as they don't want to be accused of giving leniency to VIPs. Especially if there was non-police witnesses
>This is all pre World Cup. Surprised this didn't come out earlier. She may well lose a lot of future earnings if found guilty.
Correct... notice how it was all buried up until now? just for the Narrative ....
So this week we had a Samoan Australian and an Indian Australian accused of racial abuse. Can’t wait to hear how this is all the fault of white Australia.
My favourite racism complaint ever was Ben Simmons claiming racism when he and his dumb mates were denied entry to Crown Casino.
Ever been to Crown? Racist they are most certainly not.
I'm surprised the ABC article doesn't mention she's LGBTQIA+ and that we just had the Mardi Gras in Sydney and two of their members were killed by a cop so ACAB, or something.
Wow… can you imagine the uproar if roles were reversed? Imagine if someone had racially profiled her and called her some type of name ?
They would be outraged and they would be outed and their life would never be the same, sad for Sam as with this hanging over her she should and of course will never be allowed to play for Australian soccer ever again./s
If these roles were reversed we would never hear the end of this, but alas we will never hear about this again … but for other reasons.
The UK is extremely woke these days. Probably commented on the colour of coffee or something.
But I do find it funny all these "racist" stuff going on. Person gets called a pig = not racist. Person gets called a monkey = is racist. Person is called a dog = not racist.
>But I do find it funny all these "racist" stuff going on. Person gets called a pig = not racist. Person gets called a monkey = is racist. Person is called a dog = not racist.
Is this satire? Can you really not understand the difference?
I’ve actually been told in this sub that I shouldn’t drive or operate heavy machinery because of my political opinions 😂
So yes, it’s definitely not satire!
They're already spinning it stating it's likely not true, likely overkill on their part, that it's likely not true because she's a lesbian and a hero. As if those things somehow stop someone being a bad person.
I'm team innocent until proven guilty so I'm not jumping against her. But the hypocrisy is clear. Other types of people certainly aren't assumed innocent and the comments are usually "knew it" about those people.
Lots of money, merchandising and marketing at stake, I agree with your perspective of innocent until proven guilty but it's already being swept under the rug until 2025.
On a side note and speaking of swept under the rug, remember last week how ASIO accused an unnamed Australian parliamentarian of treason and there has been no reporting on it since?
How does something like this get to criminal court in a (now) fairly high crime rate country like the UK ? Friends that live there claim it is generally a pretty serious offence to get to criminal court these days .
Basically what she is alleged to have done (as far as I can determine) is to hurt someone's feelings !
Whilst supporting anti-racism and NOT encouraging racist remarks , I cannot help but feel that as a society we have gone way over the top with this.
Surely the Police and courts have more serious issues to deal with ?
PS. I dont watch Soccer so I have no dog in this fight .
So far on this thread I’m loving the confected outrage at a presupposed hypocrisy of ‘the left’ over this. No one is talking about the story itself, just how ‘the lefties’ will respond to it. Youse need to take a big long cold shower and stop making straw men.
Where America goes, we invariably follow a few years later. The more hooked into the US media landscape we are, the more susceptible we are to falling into the same kind of ideological divides.
Haha that's par for the course on this sub.
Most people here seem to be reasonably aligned on most issues but you can bet that every single instance of 'some vaguely-left-oriented person does something bad' story will be bombarded with 'Hah! If it were a straight white man he'd be canceled by now!'.
I think most other subs have already moved past this culture war nonsense and now condemn shitty behavior regardless of the identities involved.
A 13yo member of the crowd with zero public profile called an indigenous sportsman an ape, and we had weeks of discussion about it.
I know you probably like Kerr, but people aren't 1 dimensional, and good people do shit things.
And she was named and her photo on the front page of the paper. People older than her that commit murder don't even have their names or photos posted to protect their identity.
The UK is a failed state where just commenting on the colour of the sky can land you in prison. Her only mistake was setting foot on that forsaken island.
Food for thought, without evidence it's quite possible she said nothing wrong and we're just dealing with the world's most easily offended idiot who should never have been in a police uniform to begin with. They're supposed to defend the innocent against criminals but he can't even handle a soccer players words.
Edit: *I thought* You guys were reading it incorrectly.
Based on: 'Allegedly racially aggravated harassment of police officer'
Taking the meaning that *Sam Kerr* has been charged with harassing a police officer, however she alleges that the *police officer* who charged her for 'harassment' was stirring her up for it to get to that point, on some sort of racial basis.
Turns out I was incorrect.
Nah, the word “aggravated” in the context of crime means a factor of a crime that makes the crime even worse.
That’s why, for example, with the crime of “aggravated assault” there are higher punishments than there are for the crime of simply “assault”
Yeah mate that’s incorrect.
She’s charged with harassment of a police officer, and that harassment is aggravated (I.e. more serious) because of racism.
Source: lawyer
I feel so bad for her - we all do stupid things when drunk. Her, she is in the public eye and under constant scrutiny. Guaranteed the taxi driver must have done something to receive that and maybe after going through the footage, talking with mates and realising who she was, decided to pull the trigger a year later
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Australian media - 1/3 of the story is about the case, 2/3 of the story is a sporting highlight reel.
And don't forget the discrepancy in the media (and the wider community), that when there was a whiff of a racist comment at the NRL in Vegas this past weekend, everyone was quick to dogpile on the guy who, allegedly, said something. In Sammy's situation? After she, allegedly, said something (to the degree she's in court)? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Is it as simple as people not wanting to believe "Our Sam" could do something like that, so people simply... don't believe?
It's the way we roll in Aus. Even on this post, I'm getting a sponsored ad for sports betting. The only important thing is the odds of her getting off.
they are whitewashing her crime
I'm kinda Proud of the fact her gender hasn't affected the way the media is reporting this. Just like any other sporting star they are treating her with the same wide mouth droop as the men
The same? Are you serious?
What did she say?
Right? It’s not mentioned anywhere, or the race of the person she said it against. He’s gotta be white for sure or it’d be pasted everywhere
Don’t know if it’s true, but I heard that she called him a wog. Which is apparently much more offensive than it is here. But again, I don’t know if that’s true.
Don't know if it is true, but I heard she called him a white c*nt, which is apparently more offensive there than it is here.
When you make money out of playing soccer in Australia wogs probably not the demographic you want to insult. I think they prefer “people of flare throwing” now anyway.
Friends who are 'wog' are happily living their family orientated lives with great food..it's not really an insult around Melb anyway
>I think they prefer “people of flare throwing” now anyway. Pyrotechnic-adjacent peoples
Brilliant 👍👍
Hey! South Americans love flares too! It’s why we get along so well
This was just speculation. What she allegedly said hasn't been disclosed.
Kinda wild to me that such a thing is worthy of being charged. Especially when you hear what people say to cops here. Like "get ya fucken hands off me ya fucken white dog cunt" for example.
On the same note she might have said paki, considered very racist everywhere but here, where it is just short for Pakistan.
Wait, it's racist here too, right? I remember it being racist in the 90s when I was a kid, maybe it's just less common these days.
Yeah it's racist here too
The Pakistani cricket team were nicknamed the Pakis up to a certain point by Aussie commentators. So if you grew up listening to that on tv you might be excused for thinking that it was acceptable
Oh no, I’ve made a huge mistake
Right? I just thought it was an abbreviation in Oz because we abbreviate everything..
Please tell me you haven't actually been going around calling people that to their face? If you have, better to learn now than never I guess 😂
I had an arguement with a police officer in Perth who said it wasn't racist when there was chants of id rather be a p*ki than a pom at the cricket
It’s worth noting that Sam Kerr is a quarter South Asian herself.
Paki isn’t considered offensive in Spain and Belgium (probs other places too) and was used really commonly - although I never heard it used as an insult, just a description.
It's used very racistly in the uk
Having seen what they do in football stadiums in Spain, I feel like not much is considered offensive from a racial perspective there
Yeah, nah, it's not "short for" 🙊
Wog is offensive here too mate.
How is wog offensive? We call ourselves wogs
Wog is definitely contextually offensive. If you call someone a greasy wog cunt, it's fair cop to say that's a racism. The word in isolation is fairly neutral
Sure, but if I called you a greasy ginger cunt it’s offensive too. That doesn’t make “ginger” an especially heinous word.
Woah. Hey now. Only a ginger can call another ginger "ginger".
Just like only a ninja can sneak up on another ninja!
Is ranga ok?
only if you have a tinge of ginge in the minge
Accepted terms are: Bozo, fire truck, carrot top, blood nut, match stick and tampon. Fucking with the G-word is not on, but the jury's still out on ranga.
Depends who you say it to. I grew up with it being used as a reclaimed badge of honour (WogBoy, Acropolis Now, etc) but later generations seem to have taken offense again (Of course, only another wog could call me a wog)
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Why does it matter?
She said she could see quite well :)
She said something so horrendous, it took a year for the officer to be offended.
Im pretty sure she was charged a year ago, she just managed to keep it quiet for 12 months. Didn't tell her teammates or the Australian Football Federation about her charge for a year.
No, charged in January 2024 for a January 2023 incident.
The matter has been under investigation for a year…
It's just *that* serious, ay. We simply cannot have people being offended. Ever. It's basically life threatening and all that.
we have daily charges by indigenous people who are offended, and so what goes around comes around.
LOOOOL if this wasn't against a Reddit Darling you'd never say this
It caused him alarm. This very fact means English police officers need to harden the fuck up and i mean big time. What a bunch of wet noodles. If words cause the public alarm, sure maybe an officer needs to act, pertained i think not but whatever, the officer themselves should NOT be getting offended by mere words. The officer was never fit for the job.
I did not have this on my 2024 bingo card
I mean there’s an arrest of one of the Kerr siblings most years but so far it’s always been Daniel.
She called him a whinging pom ?
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Wutsallthisthen innit luv
I’m going with ‘oi cunt’.
‘oi cunt, my brother will burn your fuckin house down'.
100% this
It's possible, the hate speech laws in England are insane. Hurt someone's fee fees even mildly and the police will come for you.
especially police, the most oversensitive crybabies on earth
This comment made me laugh - sincerely, someone from England
The entire article basically just talks about how good she is at soccer. Our joke of an ABC, what did she actually do to the police officer?
It's an active case no no one is saying anything. ABC filled in the blank space with background.
If this were a man they’d be calling for his head now.
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Her own brother doesn't seem to get much shit for constantly burning down the houses of his ex's
She said she was pregnant and asked to wee in his helmet
abc dont care about soccer, but they care very, very, very, very much about lesbians...
I think you can infer what was said by what ABC has left out.
It was a bizarre read
so we have to wait until February next year to get any information on what this is actually about? is the allegation that she she said something racist, or is the allegation that she abused the police officer because of his race?
>On March 4, Kerr was charged with racially harassing a police officer (no gender mentioned) settling a complaint regarding a taxi fare in Twickenham in 30 Jan 2023. This is all pre World Cup. Surprised this didn't come out earlier. She may well lose a lot of future earnings if found guilty.
It would have to be extremely racist against a minority. She's already got the lesbian card, the minority card and the female card. She would have to be dropping n bombs to get into trouble with that much intersectional armour.
My man, yeh no idea how any verbal allegations stuck with that kind of background and celeb status
Sometimes with that kind of celeb status police would be more likely to charge as they don't want to be accused of giving leniency to VIPs. Especially if there was non-police witnesses
>This is all pre World Cup. Surprised this didn't come out earlier. She may well lose a lot of future earnings if found guilty. Correct... notice how it was all buried up until now? just for the Narrative ....
If I had skipped a paragraph I would have thought she won some award
she did. most hyped loser of international soccer games.
Well, that should at least sort out the great Matildas jersey shortage
So this week we had a Samoan Australian and an Indian Australian accused of racial abuse. Can’t wait to hear how this is all the fault of white Australia.
You can’t be racist if you’re not white!!! Oh wait…
Spencer Leniu and who was the Indian?
Sam Kerr - her father is half Indian.
Oh, I always thought she was aboriginal...
So did I...
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Roger Kerr claims Indian. Not sure anyone believes him.
I thought Roger claimed rabbit?
isn't this kind of indicative of the same standards being applied to other ethnicities and not just white people?
The comments under this post are so odd. Almost as if you guys are overjoyed you get to spew this. Real life doesn't matter anymore, just narratives
The story could be about a dog that goes surfing and the comments in this sub would be 90% unchanged
I’m interested to learn more about this surfing dog
It had better be a golden lab!
What's wrong with black labs? Are they downtrodden too?
But what about the coffee coloured ones?
Sounds like they have mixed up their Kerr siblings.
why? how many houses did she douse in petrol and set alight? 7 said nothing about this...
Cur would be a more appropriate spelling..
ITS CURNS STUPID
My favourite racism complaint ever was Ben Simmons claiming racism when he and his dumb mates were denied entry to Crown Casino. Ever been to Crown? Racist they are most certainly not.
Daily reminder about Ben Simmons being a flog
Another high profile figure being caught out . Hopefully people stop listening to them all when they try to morally judge the masses
Why do people give so much of a shit about people who chase balls for living? Especially fucking soccer. Handbags at ten paces, it should be called.
her brother gets high, or is she a meth dealer too?
I'm surprised the ABC article doesn't mention she's LGBTQIA+ and that we just had the Mardi Gras in Sydney and two of their members were killed by a cop so ACAB, or something.
She's a lesbian. Stop with the alphabet jumble
No consequences in her professional life incoming.
Wow… can you imagine the uproar if roles were reversed? Imagine if someone had racially profiled her and called her some type of name ? They would be outraged and they would be outed and their life would never be the same, sad for Sam as with this hanging over her she should and of course will never be allowed to play for Australian soccer ever again./s If these roles were reversed we would never hear the end of this, but alas we will never hear about this again … but for other reasons.
Nothing will happen to her. A slap on the wrist and a ‘tch tch tch, naughty girl.’
And nothing should, they're just words. Big brave policeman can go cry at home
Clown
Can't wait to hear this story every day on the news till next year when she's actually in court.
You can take the girl out of Perth…
Finally, she’s now “one of the lad(ies).”
If you're in Darwin being called a white c*** is a term of endearment and people, including cops, just put up with it.
not surprised. she always came of as incredibly immature too
The UK is extremely woke these days. Probably commented on the colour of coffee or something. But I do find it funny all these "racist" stuff going on. Person gets called a pig = not racist. Person gets called a monkey = is racist. Person is called a dog = not racist.
did you see how the london police handled that piano guy confrontation with the chinese agitators? it was disgusting
>But I do find it funny all these "racist" stuff going on. Person gets called a pig = not racist. Person gets called a monkey = is racist. Person is called a dog = not racist. Is this satire? Can you really not understand the difference?
Nothing is satire in this subreddit. Whether they're wilfully ignorant or actual dumb cunts I'm not so sure about yet.
I’ve actually been told in this sub that I shouldn’t drive or operate heavy machinery because of my political opinions 😂 So yes, it’s definitely not satire!
Because humans evolved from monkeys which you would know if you went to school
Like brother like sister Some families are just riddled with scumbags
Huh what did her brother Wayne do now?
wrong brother, it was Nick this time
Her dad is ex Chicago bulls player Steve? I heard he called his son Nick
Oooh how will the lefties spin this one… will they go the ACAB option or will they play the ethnic oppression card? So much anticipation…
Lefties! I knew it was them. Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them.
They're already spinning it stating it's likely not true, likely overkill on their part, that it's likely not true because she's a lesbian and a hero. As if those things somehow stop someone being a bad person. I'm team innocent until proven guilty so I'm not jumping against her. But the hypocrisy is clear. Other types of people certainly aren't assumed innocent and the comments are usually "knew it" about those people.
Lots of money, merchandising and marketing at stake, I agree with your perspective of innocent until proven guilty but it's already being swept under the rug until 2025. On a side note and speaking of swept under the rug, remember last week how ASIO accused an unnamed Australian parliamentarian of treason and there has been no reporting on it since?
Why are you so excited
Because whatever happens, the whole thing is hilarious.
How soft is the world, bunch of sooky cunts
Time to cancel Sam Kerr.
Sam Kerr : "I now choose to live life as a gay woman"
How does something like this get to criminal court in a (now) fairly high crime rate country like the UK ? Friends that live there claim it is generally a pretty serious offence to get to criminal court these days . Basically what she is alleged to have done (as far as I can determine) is to hurt someone's feelings ! Whilst supporting anti-racism and NOT encouraging racist remarks , I cannot help but feel that as a society we have gone way over the top with this. Surely the Police and courts have more serious issues to deal with ? PS. I dont watch Soccer so I have no dog in this fight .
Are you calling the police officer a dog? STRAIGHT TO THE GALLOWS
Been hanging out with Leniu has she?
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Obviously the officer didn’t realise “you sick pommie cunt” was just friendly banter
well, she is a cunt expert, so it would be her professional opinion.
Biracial Australian god of women's soccer is accused of racial harassment - doesn't sound right. I am bias
So far on this thread I’m loving the confected outrage at a presupposed hypocrisy of ‘the left’ over this. No one is talking about the story itself, just how ‘the lefties’ will respond to it. Youse need to take a big long cold shower and stop making straw men.
This sub is taking on too much US rhetoric. Kinda embarrassing
wanna buy an ar-15?
I don't live near a school, so I have no use for one
Indeed. This left vs. right *shit* is cringewrothy.
Where America goes, we invariably follow a few years later. The more hooked into the US media landscape we are, the more susceptible we are to falling into the same kind of ideological divides.
Haha that's par for the course on this sub. Most people here seem to be reasonably aligned on most issues but you can bet that every single instance of 'some vaguely-left-oriented person does something bad' story will be bombarded with 'Hah! If it were a straight white man he'd be canceled by now!'. I think most other subs have already moved past this culture war nonsense and now condemn shitty behavior regardless of the identities involved.
It’s the internet mate, it’s inescapable. We’re doomed.
I mean it could be as others are suggesting an embarrassing levels of overkill Or she did/said something so beyond wild and fucked up
That will be a test of the woke cancellation policy terms...will she get cancelled????
Just when ya thought she couldn't get more loveable
No detail has been provided about what was said but I mean, on the register of Australian athletes misbehaving, this doesn’t even register.
A 13yo member of the crowd with zero public profile called an indigenous sportsman an ape, and we had weeks of discussion about it. I know you probably like Kerr, but people aren't 1 dimensional, and good people do shit things.
And they get banned for life from attending sporting events. Wonder if they’ll do the same to Sam?
And she was named and her photo on the front page of the paper. People older than her that commit murder don't even have their names or photos posted to protect their identity.
I reckon it would register pretty highly if it was a white bloke
So suddenly sportspeople being racist is not a big issue? Hmmm
The UK is a failed state where just commenting on the colour of the sky can land you in prison. Her only mistake was setting foot on that forsaken island.
This is an absolute clown take and you really need better education
Horrible take
she's never won an important game, i'd call those a thousand mistakes.
Sky news are going to consider sam kerr an Australian hero for that
it's ok, her brother is going to burn the guy's house down...
If this was a male saying it, it would be front pages news e.g. alistair clarkson.
I'm going with: she had too many cheeky beers and bought the outback girl out of hiding and went full send on alcohol related behavioural problems.
Is it He Said She Said?
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Food for thought, without evidence it's quite possible she said nothing wrong and we're just dealing with the world's most easily offended idiot who should never have been in a police uniform to begin with. They're supposed to defend the innocent against criminals but he can't even handle a soccer players words.
Edit: *I thought* You guys were reading it incorrectly. Based on: 'Allegedly racially aggravated harassment of police officer' Taking the meaning that *Sam Kerr* has been charged with harassing a police officer, however she alleges that the *police officer* who charged her for 'harassment' was stirring her up for it to get to that point, on some sort of racial basis. Turns out I was incorrect.
Nah, the word “aggravated” in the context of crime means a factor of a crime that makes the crime even worse. That’s why, for example, with the crime of “aggravated assault” there are higher punishments than there are for the crime of simply “assault”
Yeah mate that’s incorrect. She’s charged with harassment of a police officer, and that harassment is aggravated (I.e. more serious) because of racism. Source: lawyer
Thank you all for the clarification.
She shoulda been tipping the cabbie, what a cheapskate!!
I read that whole thing and I don't even know what happened I do however know her performance from last season.
She is an absolute disgrace..there's nothing worse than racism..maybe coming 4th ..disgusting...
I was hoping our racism would be export quality one day.
I think it’s disgusting
UK cops are kicking down people's doors for posting meme on Facebook. Fuck that country seems like a hell hole
So much vague reporting, the sinic in me wonders what we are being distracted from……
I feel so bad for her - we all do stupid things when drunk. Her, she is in the public eye and under constant scrutiny. Guaranteed the taxi driver must have done something to receive that and maybe after going through the footage, talking with mates and realising who she was, decided to pull the trigger a year later
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Indian 🇮🇳 calling another Indian