Basketball ACT admits need for further cultural training after 12yo girls report racist slur during game

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Basketball ACT concedes it needs to do better in raising cultural awareness after allegations 12-year-old girls were called a racist name at a junior basketball game in Canberra.

"It's draining. Week after week, it just kept happening.

He was relieved the issue of addressing racism in local sport was again on the agenda, saying it put Basketball ACT "back in the spotlight". ACT Discrimination Commissioner Karen Toohey said Basketball ACT needed to engage with the Aboriginal community to help address the issue "so that they don't try and do it through a policy or something on their website".

"People need to understand racial vilification is against the law in the ACT ... It is unacceptable." Ms Toohey said she was disappointed to hear the alleged language was spoken at a sporting competition for young Indigenous girls.

 

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Racism is taught from an early age, no matter what skin colour you are.

Start with the authorities in the ACT... racist attitudes galore.

So they were called a block of cheese ? I like cheese 🧀

Quick! To the re-education campus!

PanzerShock Blah blah blah

“Cultural training” 🙄 Ban anyone who uses a racial slur from the game. Pretty sure they KNOW it’s racist.

Abortion is more repugnant, and effects more children, than racism.

If it happens during the game, it's a technical foul. If it happens outside the game, it's not a basketball ACT matter. Where does the need for re-education come from?

I know of at least one other person who has experienced a similar incident playing basketball in the ACT.

Yeah, every time a single person says something unacceptable, let's drag hundreds of girls in for cultural training! Ever striving for that Marxist utopia of compliance. Canberra ACT

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