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Racist teams : Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:01 am  
I'm surprised there is no topic (unless I've missed it) on the fact that the RFL are considering in hosting 2 teams that only allow 1 race to play for them.
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Re: Racist teams : Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:50 am  
I was not going to glorify this obviously dubious topic with a reply but it is exactly the same if we still had the Yorkshire V Lancashire games based on your place of birth or do you consider this racist because surely it is the same.
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Re: Racist teams : Mon Aug 02, 2021 7:53 am  
No, because it doesn't matter what your race is to play for Lancashire and Yorkshire, race is not a criteria, and why is it dubious?
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Re: Racist teams : Mon Aug 02, 2021 9:39 am  
What is this about?
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Re: Racist teams : Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:13 am  
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What is this about?

The RFL are considering having 'indigenous ' teams from Australia and new Zealand play in the world Cup.
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Re: Racist teams : Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:39 pm  
Well these teams are not new concepts, so that likely explains the absence of a topic prior to this.

I imagine you are flagging the inconsistency in a Maori team (for example) not provoking much comment, whereas a hypothetical England Caucasians team would provoke some significant queasiness among liberal snowflake types. I might be wrong - do correct me, if so.

The apparent incongruity (and on the surface it is a bit odd) can be navigated using the context of history.
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Re: Racist teams : Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:27 pm  
That’s fair enough and warranted.
Australia and NZ should each have two teams. :D

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Re: Racist teams : Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:09 pm  
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Well these teams are not new concepts, so that likely explains the absence of a topic prior to this.

I imagine you are flagging the inconsistency in a Maori team (for example) not provoking much comment, whereas a hypothetical England Caucasians team would provoke some significant queasiness among liberal snowflake types. I might be wrong - do correct me, if so.

The apparent incongruity (and on the surface it is a bit odd) can be navigated using the context of history.

We are trying to create a fully integrated society, we all agree (well most of us do) that discrimination due to race is completely wrong then we accept a massive contradiction where we allow teams that completely discriminate on race whereas if you are not the 'correct ' race you cannot play. What does history have to do with a modern day inclusive sport that gives it licence to discriminate?
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Re: Racist teams : Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:54 am  
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We are trying to create a fully integrated society, we all agree (well most of us do) that discrimination due to race is completely wrong then we accept a massive contradiction where we allow teams that completely discriminate on race whereas if you are not the 'correct ' race you cannot play. What does history have to do with a modern day inclusive sport that gives it licence to discriminate?


The answer to your last is a matter of judgement and we might come to different conclusions. It would be nice, in some ways, to wipe the historical slate clean and start over - but it’d also be dishonest.

In the future, I think it is plausible that these teams may be looked at a little differently. Attitudes aren’t static.

When I look at historical racist practices in sport, and reasons why these teams don’t seem anywhere near as problematic as some others it comes down to a couple of things.

Is a more dominant group excluding a less dominant group on the basis of ‘racial superiority’ and/or to protect their dominance? Stuff like open segregation in US baseball and basketball up to 1947 come to mind. Or the Springboks refusing both to select or play against non-whites, up until they didn’t.

Or is it exploitative? Is it reinforcing the views of a dominant group by controlling and projecting the image of a less dominant group? Moving away from racism, women’s rugby league looks and feels very different to the Lingerie Bowl (later rebranded as the Legends Cup). I’d have to look more at the history of the Maori and Australian indigenous teams, but they look like positive self-identification to me.

Why would it be more difficult for a team representing English or British whiteness, for example, to be about positive self-identification? Well there’s a lot of historical baggage there.

Might more of us, one day, look at the Maori and Indigenous teams as curiosities from a different time - as I said above, it is plausible. They’re very unlikely to go down in infamy though, based on a common sense interpretation of what they represent and why, rather a search for rigid consistency stripped of cultural and societal context.
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Re: Racist teams : Wed Aug 04, 2021 7:30 am  
I don't agree with your common sense interpretation. Surely common sense says you don't fight racial discrimination with racial discrimination, it's totally counter intuitive. It seems a very convoluted argument to justify that these teams exist. Are we just playing at racial parity or are we serious. Racial exclusive anything should be consigned to the history books.
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