Salient

what the fuck is the university going to do about It???!!!
he hasn’t broken anylaws we
have free speech here

WOW!
The left, especially Young Labour are really out to hurt the A-Team, not suprisingly though. It is obviously not enough to have done the smear posters of Lukas, Anna and Mike calling them a**holes, and Anna a “whore” (posters which were printed in Labour Head office as a YL member told me), they also tried to cause further emotional stress to the team by posting that Anna was dead (note to anyone in Labour never leave the party otherwise you have to put up with this) and now they are calling the team racist. I passed by this incident and Tush really was “acting like a monkey” - he ripped the posters off the guys putting them up and stomped on them, obviously it is convenient that they can use it to accuse the team of racism, however the same statement could have been made to anyone behaving in such a manner.

Love that Salient has a number of articles this week attempting to demean the A-Team, as if last week’s editorial and articles weren’t enough. Got to love repsonsible and unbiased media.

edgeler - what a disgrace to free speech

they also tried to cause further emotional stress to the team by posting that Anna was dead (note to anyone in Labour never leave the party otherwise you have to put up with this)

where’s your evidence someone in young labour tried to do this?

Michelle: I believe that you are really a Young Labout acolyte.

There are many conflicting acounts of the incident, which make it difficult to determine what happened. The A-Team should have at least apoligised (if they haven’t done so) to Kodikara for the comment. The impression I gather is that the incident is being used for political purposes to smear the A-Team. More serious perhaps is the posters plastered all over campus, which were done anonymously (thus more closely resembling the Exclusive brethren than anything the A-Team has done) labbeling Anna Duggan a “whore” something that was clearly meant in a sexist context. If Kodikara makes a complaint to the university about the “monkey” incident, Duggan should do so about the “whore” posters.

Nicholas, you miss the point. Two A-Team members did in fact call Tushara a stupid monkey. Of cause they will lie about it now. It is not a smear campaign. They used it in a racist context. Students have right to know that members of the A-Team did this. There is a big difference using the word white to describe the A-Team (which I do believe is not racist, as they are a group of whites) and calling Tushara a stupid monkey.

you know, literally a baboon?

” Two A-Team members did in fact call Tushara a stupid monkey” That is not disputed, what is disputed is the circumstances in which it was used, and wether or not it was used in a racial context.
“Of cause they will lie about it now” How do I know it is Lukas and O’Rourke who are lying and not Hayward and Kodikara? What appears to be the case for me, is the incident is minor, and clearly being used for political purposes.

“There is a big difference using the word white to describe the A-Team (which I do believe is not racist, as they are a group of whites) and calling Tushara a stupid monkey.”
Calling the A-Team “rich, white elitism” is not much different to refering to a black person as a “stupid black idiot”. If it is appropriate to use the term “white” to describe the A-Team in a lsit of negative descriptions on the grounds that most if not all are white, then it is appropriate to use the term “black” in a lsit of negative terms to describe a black person, as in ithe example above.

Nick: team that ‘white’ with some form of racial slur used against white people (I don’t even know any), and you’ll see the effect the word ‘monkey’ has on someone who isn’t white.

Furthermore, do you really believe, that if the incident is completely true as Tush and Geoff have alleged, that it is ‘minor’? I for one believe racism isn’t a minor issue and should not be treated as such. However, we may never ever know the truth.

Even if the incident occured as Tush and Geoff described it, I don’t see it as very major. It was only one word which may have been used inapropriately without thinking. I’ve been called plenty of derogatory things before. I do however think they shouldn’t have used the word monkey.

blogette is simply the a-team’s loyal muppet

haha you’re fucked now