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Wayne Simmonds incidents

oldman said:
sad, tonight someone tossed a banana on the ice in front Simmons when he was in the shootout. classy. :(
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Maybe I'm just out of touch as a middle class white dude, but I didn't think racism when I read that.  My first thought was it was kinda funny, in a Three Stooges, slapstick kinda way.  Like he'd slip on it and go ass over tits.

I didn't connect the dots with the banana - monkey - black dude - racism thing until later.
 
Sucker Punch said:
oldman said:
sad, tonight someone tossed a banana on the ice in front Simmons when he was in the shootout. classy. :(
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Maybe I'm just out of touch as a middle class white dude, but I didn't think racism when I read that.  My first thought was it was kinda funny, in a Three Stooges, slapstick kinda way.  Like he'd slip on it and go ass over tits.

I didn't connect the dots with the banana - monkey - black dude - racism thing until later.
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It's been happening in european soccer stadiums for years and is quite widley known to be a racist act. On a few occasions people have come to soccer matches dressed in monkey costumes.
 
Deebo said:
Sucker Punch said:
oldman said:
sad, tonight someone tossed a banana on the ice in front Simmons when he was in the shootout. classy. :(
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Maybe I'm just out of touch as a middle class white dude, but I didn't think racism when I read that.  My first thought was it was kinda funny, in a Three Stooges, slapstick kinda way.  Like he'd slip on it and go ass over tits.

I didn't connect the dots with the banana - monkey - black dude - racism thing until later.
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It's been happening in european soccer stadiums for years and is quite widley known to be a racist act. On a few occasions people have come to soccer matches dressed in monkey costumes.
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I seem to remember someone in Montreal throwing a banana at Weekes a few years back.
 
Deebo said:
Sucker Punch said:
oldman said:
sad, tonight someone tossed a banana on the ice in front Simmons when he was in the shootout. classy. :(
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Maybe I'm just out of touch as a middle class white dude, but I didn't think racism when I read that.  My first thought was it was kinda funny, in a Three Stooges, slapstick kinda way.  Like he'd slip on it and go ass over tits.

I didn't connect the dots with the banana - monkey - black dude - racism thing until later.
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It's been happening in european soccer stadiums for years and is quite widley known to be a racist act. On a few occasions people have come to soccer matches dressed in monkey costumes.
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Really?  That makes me sad.
 
My brothers place of work does some security at the JLC. Some of the guys he knows that work there said that no one in the section they think it was thrown out of would say a thing.
 
What's really sad is that this person apparently went to the game with the specific intent of degrading Wayne Simmonds.
 
The fan actually did it twice. He also threw one when Simmonds scored during the game but it didn't reach the ice surface. I really hope they identify this clown and he gets barred from all AHL and NHL arenas.
 
Bullfrog said:
Mordac said:
Potvin29 said:
Sad that no one in the crowd has come forward.
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But totally unsurprising. The human being will let you down every time.
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Wow. That's a pretty depressing comment.
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I think it's great to see a pretty common front in response though, it is human to fail but it's also human to grow and I don't see support for the action.
 
The construction workers I work with would laugh at this, but none would condone it.  And they would welcome Mr.Simmonds into the ranks if hired.  But he'd never be treated as an equal if they didn't harass him for anything they could.  (And one better dish it back!)  If the guys were going out to the bar, Simmonds would definitely be invited.  Maybe they are jerks, but the onus is on everyone not to take the jokes/pranks/comments personal with people who you know are just kidding.  Everyone gets a chance at being the target of cruelty.  The vibe I get as the world gets more politically-correct, is it's better to exclude certain people in the social circle for fear anyone will be offended.  In a different situation, this banana toss in my mind would be border-line acceptable, but only if they already knew Wayne Simmonds and what they could get away with, if he'd take it seriously, were face-to-face, and were willing to take the retribution that was guaranteed to come back.  I have a real problem with the guy in the crowd.  This was a truly cowardly act from a complete idiot.  Harassing friends is one thing, harassing strangers is just wrong.  This wasn't funny, but that a guy could be so stupid is.  I had two friends/co-workers going at it, both having fun with it, and someone who didn't like one of them got him fired for saying something nobody was offended by.  They can make all the laws they like, in the end, there's only so much class one can expect from places like construction sites and the nose-bleeds in a hockey arena.  Simmonds did an excellent job rolling with the punches and for that I have deep respect for.
 
Saint Nik said:
Well, nice to see that Wayne Simmonds decided to burn through his goodwill in record time:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nhl/story/_/id/7024659/new-york-rangers-sean-avery-says-wayne-simmonds-called-homophobic-slur
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How did this come up?  Did a reporter see it happen on the ice and ask Avery, or did Avery just bring it up?

Obviously it is wrong, but I'm going to assume this is a pretty widespread thing that goes on (judging from past hockey-playing experience and reading some of the stuff on Twitter retweeted by Bob McKenzie for example).
 
Potvin29 said:
Saint Nik said:
Well, nice to see that Wayne Simmonds decided to burn through his goodwill in record time:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nhl/story/_/id/7024659/new-york-rangers-sean-avery-says-wayne-simmonds-called-homophobic-slur
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How did this come up?  Did a reporter see it happen on the ice and ask Avery, or did Avery just bring it up?

Obviously it is wrong, but I'm going to assume this is a pretty widespread thing that goes on (judging from past hockey-playing experience and reading some of the stuff on Twitter retweeted by Bob McKenzie for example).
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I heard that the arena microphones picked it up.
 
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