IN any noble fight, there is always a turncoat. It didn’t take long for the crisis team managing the fallout from the Manly Sea Eagles’ unforced knock-on this week to dragoon a Polynesian who was happy to parrot pieties for the man. Former Penrith and Souths prop Frank Puletua told reporters he “loves” the “pride jumper,” wants unworldly Polynesian players to receive “greater education” on “inclusivity” (code du jour for homosexuality) and says “it would be great if the guys involved changed their minds and played and wore the jumper.” Yes, Puletua works for the NRL in a senior role. On the same day that Pope Francis was in Canada apologising to natives for the Church’s role in ‘assimilating’ their forebears, he was in Sydney counseling Pacific Islanders to be good boys and convert to skippy secularism. Though hamstrung a smidgen by the protesters’ skin colour – had they been white Catholics, administrators would have referred them to police – the Manly club and the NRL are still declaring, effectively, an intention to ban Christians.
This sort of brazen extremism – and the willingness to prosecute it like a Soviet republic – does not emerge from a boardroom of footballers roused to activism by the doleful plight of the aggrieved. It emerges from a Total Leftist State where corporate and government elites solidify and protect their power by forcing a mock-settled theology of ‘inclusion’ on a loathed citizenry. Like a shaman caste, politicians, CEOs, diversity hustlers, PR executives and journalists do this by pretending to control ‘blowback’ – a euphemism for the soft violence of boycotts, ostracism, defunding and cancellation they nervously monopolise and fear. Some on the right are still making the mistake of arguing TLS panics of the Sea Eagles stripe must be orchestrated but those days are long gone. This is an era of liquid tyranny. Here’s Sports Minister Anika Wells on the rainbow jersey affair:
“Ultimately those players have a right to exercise their values and beliefs,” Ms Wells told Sky News. “But I also think … supporters of the game have a right to exercise their values and beliefs and I think there’s going to be a bit of blowback about this…” Ms Wells said that she saw her role in relation to the controversy “to be an ambassador for inclusivity.”
Note how Wells – a 36 year-old with no experience of either sport or the non-Gillardian world – gaslights “those players” by preposterously arraying against them “supporters of the game.” By the latter, she cannot mean rugby league fans. She means the purveyors of vendetta outside of the NRL and the self-aggrandising Puletuas within. These the minister subtly urges on to a total victory over the Christians. The left started using the word ‘blowback’ twenty years ago as a moral justification for terrorism against Western Civilisation and it retains that meaning. Wells didn’t need to discuss the Sea Eagles mess with ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys to make sure the two were in sync. “Everyone knows the position of the game. If you don’t want to be inclusive you can stand down,” he said. It follows that he and Wells should do exactly that.
And yet, our forebears are labeled as racist for writing into our constitution, a clause that forbid the federal government from lording over them. Go figure. Heads you win, tails I lose!
Verballing in the extreme.
They haven’t not been inclusive. They’ve simply refused to celebrate something that is contrary to their beliefs, and are not willing to feign ‘pride’ about something of which they are not ‘proud’.
I think she’ll find the supporters of the game are aligned behind the Christians. That was the case with Rugby Australia – the Folau persecution was a disaster for RA as fans walked out the door and didn’t come back.
Ordinary people are totally fed up with the self-entitled power-mad qwerties. They just want sport without posturing or politics.
They don’t seem to realise oppression doesn’t always bow Christians.
Stand firm, Sea Eagles.
I am one of those Bruce but it was the last straw. RA’s mismanagement of the game had me watching less and less already.
You can’t have free and good communism with those bitter clinger Christians ruining about clutching their Bibles under one arm and the football under the other.
How dare those young men believe in a higher purpose and attend those subversive churches every week. What was it that saw them back down from the it’s a thought crime stance they took with Folau?
I wish people would stop supporting these stupid professional sports and their stupid, bullying, woke bullcrap. FFS can’t people have other interests.
The Jumper fiasco is not , was never and never will be about inclusivity. Do not fall for this ARU inspired ( they di it first) lie.
no-one objects that homosexuals play thugby league nor people other than white or anybody else. That is what inclusivity is about.
Wearing a jersey that has a gay pride ‘logo’ on is about advertising and thus supporting the homosexual lifestyle.
Wells should know better but does not in conflating the two distinct ideas. She should be condemned for it.
Not Trampis
Excellent comment, thank you.
SBS brought on some distinctly-DNA-diluted ‘pacific islander’ academic to deliver the stunning insight that the religious beliefs of these rugby players may affect their, uh, worldview. Thank goodness for academics.
(Waiting for CL’s take on lighting up the Melbourne Shrine of remembrance in gay pride colours. Bruce Ruxton was unavailable for comment.)
And can we get a welfare check done on Trampis? Someone has hijacked his email account and is occasionally making sense.
The unthinking in our community have been conned into believing that the word “inclusive” also has a secondary definition – to exclude Christians.
Frighteningly, many think that is OK.
If he starts endorsing Dutton, I’m contacting the AFP’s hostage rescue unit.
Bit of that going around, though.
What the hell happened to Bill Shorten? I mean, in a good way:
You can only be inclusive by excluding, you can only be non-discriminatory by discriminating. You know it makes sense.
“Everyone knows the position of the game. If you don’t want to be inclusive you can stand down,”
Wow, I’m agreeing with Not Trampis and Bill Shorten. Yikes!
Yes I do wish that politics could be left out of both sport and commerce. It’s so unnecessary.
Homer makes a good point. Nobody bats an eyelid when muslim players, of any sport, refuse to wear the shirt with gambling or alcoholic sponsors. They simply wear the teams colours with the sponsor removed.
That is the issue; wear this or else. Nothing to do with inclusivity or diversity, just a vendetta against wrong think.
We can (and should) sharpen the image still further: it’s a vendetta against Christianity.
When that young Muslim sportswoman not all that long ago refused to wear rainbow colours and boycotted the game, the normally outraged and self-righteous left barely said a word.
If he wasn’t already long dead, the mere idea would be enough to finish him off.
One might wonder if this might mean Israel Folau has a case to say he has been discriminated against.
Let’s get this right. The religion of players should determine the conditions under which the club plays? Does that apply to all religion?
The GayBC was in overdrive in this tonight, orchestrated by the ghastly Sarah Ferguson. The thought of being married to her would be enough turn any man but Snowcone into a poor.
“Let’s get this right. The religion of players should determine the conditions under which the club plays? Does that apply to all religion?”
Now there’s a hot take.
False Equivalence says:
28 July, 2022 at 8:17 pm
Let’s get this right. The religion of players should determine the conditions under which the club plays? Does that apply to all religion?
I suspect that Islam gets a pass.
You’ve got it the wrong way around.
Should the interests of a lobby group (in this case, gay) or their supporters (the Manly club board or management) demand that players be forced to show overt (political) support for that group against their own personal moral stance?
It doesn’t matter now. It looks like they have given up. So much for their faith.
I have a suspicion that Non Mentis’s controller has given him a short lesson on irony and sarcasm. He is overdoing it a bit.
One would have to be very naive to believe V’Landys and his trendy pals would dish out the same treatment to muslim rugby players.