There has been a dark, delicious irony to the commentariat’s crying over the booing of Adam Goodes. These mostly white, footie-dodging, city-based scribes present themselves as implacable opponents of racism, an ideology they despise for its treatment of one group – whites – as superior to another group: in this case Indigenous Aussies.
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Brendan O’Neill is editor of Spiked. A collection of his essays ‘A Duty to Offend’ is published this week by Connor Court.
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