The True Violence

Re: The aggression incident at the SA vs ACS(I) rugby game

Can you believe this?

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

The mainstream media is still going on and on, focusing on the police reports made against the SA boy who struck the ACS(I) boy, on how the SA boy is 'distraught' because he's called up for statement by the police etc.

Know why the poor kid is distraught? It all started because the media made such a big deal of this fight on the front page on the national papers.

These continuous reports fan the emotions of people of and around the ACSians. It probably led to the mother of that ACS(I) making the police report in a delayed manner.

THE MOTHER OF ACS BOY

Hey... Mother of ACS boy... plus all those people gunning for SA blood... These boys are not playing chess for their CCA leh. This is a damn CONTACT SPORT, can? Rugby is mother of all contact sports, can? (Ok, third to boxing and wrestling, so avoid those too, if you cannot tahan.)

CONTACT SPORT means there will be... physical contact. Duh?! And when things get hot and heavy, someone will taunt someone, someone will react, and someone will bleed. It's part of the game.

If you really wanted to protect your kid from physical violence, then change his CCA, get him to represent his school in a Math competition or something. Oh... maybe not... coz he may kena poke by a pen in his eye if he loses and taunts his (this time RI) competitors. Better stay at home and play Wii by himself.

More seriously, does the mother know what the consequences are by making that police report against the SA boy? What if this police report causes the SA boy to have a criminal record? Is this really resolving the situation 'amicably' as claimed by the mother?

THE POLITICIAN

Then you have regularly opportunistic politicians who, when interviewed, could have put to a stop to the media circus, but instead grabbed the interview moment, and fanned the flames, while plugging his own portfolio. O_o

People who do not compete in contact sports, but only in solo 'sports' such as running or swimming, should not pass cheap euphemistic comments on 'sportsmanship' in contact sports. Better ask someone who has been playing a contact sport competitively for comments, e.g. Water polo, basketball, handball etc. Fights, bleeds, accidents, injuries... erm... aggression... etc are inevitable in competitive contact sports.

THE SCHOOL

The abovementioned adults do not know the SA boy personally, and probably do not care if their actions may harm him.

If you have not read about it, the boy's school, SAS, punished him in the following ways:

1. Temporarily suspended the boy from lessons.
2. Banned the boy from all school rugby activities for six months, disqualified from receiving the school colours, and will not be allowed to represent the school again.
3. Made the boy publicly apologise in front of the entire school during assembly 
4. To be taken to meet Leonard, the ACS(I) boy, to reconcile their differences.

Seriously???
It's ok to suspend the boy from playing rugby, but why suspend him from lessons? And why shame the poor boy in front of the whole school? To preserve the school's integrity? Must 废 his 武功 or not? Ah bo chop off the arm/hand he used to punch the ACS boy with lah!

These 名门正派s ah... Why so ah gua one?!

Just settle it on the damn pitch, and forget it lah!
Why allow all those unrelated 惟恐天下不乱的小人s to stir up this incident so much, then have to react to them in such a massively public manner? At whose expense?

BM, are you saying that fight in the pitch was acceptable violence? Isn't violence unacceptable?

No one plays the game just to fight. A line has to be drawn on how much violence can be tolerated. The line is 'keep it within the pitch/court/pool'.

In this incident, I think the so-called fight on the pitch was insignificant. How bad was it? Punches and 1 boy lost 1 tooth.

BUT, there were a couple of associated demonstrations of violence which were totally unnecessary and unacceptable outside of that rugby pitch:

(1) The Bus-Stop Attack
The attack by boys in civilian clothes on the 2 boys in ACS(I) uniform at the bus stop outside the game. One of the ACS boys' nose got broken. That's outside the pitch and unnecessary. Making police report for that incident is totally justified. The media should have focused on this, instead of playing up the 'school rivalry'.

(2) Emotional Violence inflicted on the SA Boy by ADULTS
The media's extensive coverage on this incident (including quoting stupid people), the police report by mother of ACS(I) boy on the pitch, and SAS's punishment for that boy... These are acts of emotional violence inflicted on the poor SA boy by adults.

And worst still, with the police report, he could be stuck with a criminal record for the rest of his life.

If the SA boy was blinded by rage and adrenaline when he punched the ACS(I) boy, the abovementioned groups of adults ain't faring much better than him either.