Quote: CobraCraig "But your nationality isn’t your race that’s what people are getting confused with (although it maybe is confusing xenophobia is accepted on the whole and racism isn’t). If he’d have called him a New Zealand friend or English friend I don’t think we’d be having this conversation.
I also agree that Polynesian isn’t a racist word, but sandwiched between stupid and c**t it brings on another meaning like putting any other accepted name for a race in between.'"
I think Clubb's brain couldn't work out what nationality he was and went up to the next thing ie, North of England, England, Great Britain, Europe, Northern Hemisphere, Earth or NZ, Polynesia, Southern Hemisphere, Earth. If he said feckin instead of Polynesian there is no issue, but given the respect on and off the field in our game for people from that part of the world, and it is not a slur outside the game, I'm not sure Clubb is using the world Polynesian to do anything but drive it home that it is aimed at Savelio, and that stupid and the c word are meant to be the offensive bits in his verbal attack.
