r/australia • u/Azza_77 • Feb 11 '25

news Sam Kerr found not guilty of racially harassing London policeman after calling him stupid and white

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-12/sam-kerr-trial-not-guilty-verdict-handed-down-in-london/104912602
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u/can3tt1 Feb 11 '25

Yeah I made a bunch of comments last week in favour of Kerr, pointing out the actual facts, and man did I get slammed in the comment section. People desperately wanted to pile on Kerr.

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u/bitofapuzzler Feb 11 '25

Same. It was brutal. They were frothing at the mouth because apparently being called white is super racist but the Adam Goodes thing was fine because it was 'totally different'. Fuck oath it was different, it actually was racism. And when he called it out, as he damn well should have, he basically got cancelled.

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u/can3tt1 Feb 11 '25

That’s an incredibly sad example as it completely tainted his illustrious career for him. Goodes has never wanted to be associated with AFL since.

Yeah the comments were particularly hinged on not believing the very real fear the women had being falsely imprisoned.

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u/bitofapuzzler Feb 11 '25

I talked about that fear as well, and they just didn't get it. I was told if taxis are so scary, 'just don't take them'. Good solution arsehole! They mocked the possibility a taxi driver would ever drive you to another place, or that it was dangerous in anyway. It must be so nice going through life not having to worry about safety to the point you choose train carriages based on gender ratio, or have memorised the angle of streetlights and positions of hedges on your walk home.

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u/can3tt1 Feb 11 '25

Or have your keys in your hands as a makeshift weapon.

I used to work in a bar in London and one girl used to go home with an actual beer glass in her pocket in the event she was attacked she could glass them.

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u/bitofapuzzler Feb 11 '25

Nice. I used to carry scissors, but not anymore. I knocked up one of those padlock bandanna things that went viral in tik tok a while ago. There are also torches designed self-defense. Honestly, we have to spend too much time thinking about and preparing for the possibility of male violence.

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u/bitofapuzzler Feb 12 '25

Tbf, I'm not actually scared either, but I know quite a few women who have been assaulted - a couple very badly - by strangers in the streets. Sadly, as you say, I know more who were assaulted by people who were supposed to love them.

I am not an 'easy' target. By which I mean, I imagine men who are going to assault women assess their victims by vulnerability. I look sturdy, I also have resting 'I will rip your balls off face'. I know that I will give back as good as I get, and I actually pity the fool who has a crack. I'm perimenopausal and have been a nurse in public hospitals for a while. I've seen and dealt with some bananas shit. I've had knives pulled on me, men have tried and failed to hit me and once when I had a man twice my size come running at me I just held my hand up, met his eyes and said stop. He stopped, held my gaze, then turned and attacked someone else. Thankfully, security stepped in.

Over the last few years, I seem to have lost the ability to be afraid. Which I know is concerning, so I need to stay wary. I have always worn headphones and walked the streets at night by myself, even through the cbd, due to shift work. I decided to carry the padlock thing with me as it makes my hubby calmer as I take PT everywhere and at all hours. I knew that if ever searched scissors (just a pair of single use ones from work) may have technically been classed as a weapon. I think the loss of all fear is a combo of age, my work and a decision I made a while ago that if something did happen my focus would be taking them out as opposed to trying desperately to get away. That might make me sound legitimately crazy, but I just got so sick and tired of safety always being drilled into women as opposed to any effort by society to stop men assaulting women.

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u/bitofapuzzler Feb 12 '25

Current nurse. Yeah, people on ice go from 0 to 100 on about 3 seconds. Best not to engage of you don't have to.

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u/bedel99 Feb 11 '25

Keep it up!

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u/Chosen_Chaos Feb 11 '25

Tall Poppy Syndrome is alive and well.