181

Aussies go viral for booing American national anthem at WWE Crown Jewel event in Perth (7news.com.au)

submitted 1 week ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 20 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] princessnorah 29 points 1 week ago

Amazing.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago

I think this video captures the booing better.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

The clip I saw had insufficient booing IMO.

Apparently they thought the MMA scene is MAGA?

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

That was my initial thoughts, although after reading, i get the idea that the crowd just found it a bit disrespectful. Its interesting, because i could go either way on this. Does it come down to how wrestlers are defined?

Sports people > Entertainers = Fine and normal in sports for participants to have their anthems played.

Sports people < Entertainers = Disrespectful to the country the performers are touring in.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

I can't bring myself to consider it that deeply im afraid.

At this point I find anything glorifying USA culture offensive.

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

😂

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sports have anthems played in the US only since WWII because it was supposed to boost patriotism. Nobody else does that.

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that'll be incorrect.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WagZcq3Xehg

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's an international event. It's quite different than playing it at a local game, all the time, to annoy the soviets (since that was the original purpose).

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Problem with that other commenter's comment was it was too broad a statement. And lets be honest, a bit obnoxious for it. The US may do it for every game, but there's plenty of examples where other country's sports use their anthems, AFL uses it for at least finals and ANZAC rounds, I'd expect that's the same for NRL.

My example the other day was a quickly found one, I equated them as both international events. After all, this is US wrestling in Australia, granted not against Aus, but still in Aus. And here is where I go back to my original reaction, is it more a sport, or more an entertainment? And is that the defining difference that caused the booing?

[-] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Playing national anthems at a national team game? Shocking!

Show me evidence it happens every week at every stadium in Aussie Rules games and then it'll be a gotcha.

[-] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Go find evidence that satisfies whatever arbitrary bar you've set yourself.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah he clip on the article is hardly audioble

[-] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Wouldn’t it have been a stronger statement to boycott the event entirely? Maybe rig the sound system to do some booing in a mostly empty stadium or something.