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RE:@ chris
by chris on Oct 18, 2007 01:29 PM

But you see you are rewriting events as it suits you. I already established the difference between racism and sledging so I won't go into that again, if you believe racism is a just recourse to sledging then there's not much to say except you are wrong.

The Australian's complaining about every little thing is also wrong. Gilchrist allured to Sreesanth's behaviour of throwing down the wickets on a dead ball and proceeding to argue the point with the umpire with clown like gestures was schoolboys stuff. That seems pretty fair and reasonable to me, such action is definitely rediculous and far different from sledging.

Then Symonds said he was racially abused, the fact he didn't lodge a complaint was proof the fact it wasn't a big deal and he let it go.

The Australian media picked it up. Why? Pretty simple, such a story sells papers over here more so than the usual Australia win in India yet again headline.

Then Indian papers picked it up, it kept happening, and people such as yourself are throwing caution to the wind arguing that the difference between sledging and racism isn't clear and that it's your patriotic duty to support the racist crowd members for 'giving it back'.

Monty alleged he was racially abused, saying he was called a 'stupid Indian'. Now, you want to tell me that's racial abuse? Have you been to a game? Players calling each other stupid [insert nationality here] is common practice by all parties, and was not deemed racist for that reason.

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