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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3699931, member: 9853"] Everywhere I look it's like a rerun of Reefer Madness. It's gone beyond scolding into persecution and sanctimonious wankery now. The racist twist on it is it's largely related to the perception (based on his fashion sense) that he got "uppity" when the money started rolling in. Whenever I've pointed out his crimes are fairly routine traffic offences (though obviously illegal) that aren't uncommon for someone of his age, he hasn't been convicted of being intoxicated behind the wheel and the accident (as far as we're aware) is unrelated to the actual crimes committed, I get howled down/downvoted and called names. Mine is a VERY unpopular opinion, but of course it's fact, and it explains the penalties he received. But this is what so-called fans do and the media ended up playing to it. It started out wait-and-see and then they too went along for the ride. In my (unpopular) opinion, the penalty from the NRL is a massive overreaction based on public hysteria rather than the crime, but whatever, he's a child who needed to grow up, and hopefully this will be his making. [/QUOTE]

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