Izak Rankine, Snoop Dogg and the AFL’s hypocrisy on homophobia
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Adelaide’s Izak Rankine is being investigated for using a homophobic slurry towards a Collingwood player during the game on Saturday night.
To be clear, since the big final entertainment elections is not clear, AFL has no truck with homophobia and is forced to events that contain homophobic insults in the field.
More importantly, some entertainment on the football field on the big final day can be daily drug users, can make homophobic messages and write women’s enemy lyrics that celebrate violence against women, but if they don’t just wear blocks and kicking football. They can’t have fun that people come to see the most.
Rankine said he was accused of saying that he would rightly be suspended. Step with AFL values. In fact, with community expectations, we cannot be sure of AFL values now.
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Rankine, since last year, the fourth player at the AFL level will be accused or suspended of making homophobic comments.
This fact is just surprising and claims that the message has not passed. This continues to be the cause? Rankine may expect a suspension of at least five games if found guilty and miss each adelaide final. Based on the precedent, he deserved it.
You may also claim that five matches are a very big penalty and that you can be right. If you knock off someone and wrap them with a lump, the players sit in a shaking against the three matches. Since the players say about their spouses, mothers or girlfriends, they sit in an incompatible way against the absence of prohibitions.
But we’re coming here because Jeremy Finlayson was banned for a homophobic slurry with AFL warning for three weeks last year, then players don’t have to assume that such sles will get the same punishment. They didn’t. Soon after Wil Powell said something similar and banned for five games.
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AFL said that there is a zero tolerance policy for such a language and that everyone should feel safe in business and football fields. AHEM, Snoop?
Then this year, Jack Graham made a similar slur and made four matches after a match discount because he reported to himself. Last year, the actor Lance Collard on the AFL list received six matches for homophobic abuse at VFL; He was shot in an extra match for making more than one comment. Riak Andrew had five matches at VFL this year.
Therefore, the punishment will be remarkably irrigated for AFL to give a lighter punishment than Graham, who declares itself.
This means that it will not be included in the finals. Perhaps unless you want to sing backup for Snoop Dogg.
