Partisan reaction to ball-tampering saga says a lot about us
A lot of people got a big kick out of roasting the Australian cricket side
A lot of people got a big kick out of roasting the Australian cricket side. Not content with the long bans given to the three offending players, they put the boot in through a variety of jokes, taunts and straight-faced moral assaults. Some of the jibes were really funny — but there has also been a large dose of schadenfreude. As in: "It’s high time those arrogant sods were brought down a notch or two, and now it’s happened, let’s milk it for all it’s worth." I get the logic. I spent the better part of 20 years detesting Australia and wishing it harm. And I’ve often felt the same way about the likes of the US, Amazon and Manchester United. There’s a difference, though — an important difference, I think — between wanting to see a bunch of crowing winners humbled, on the one hand, and spitting on them when they’re down, on the other. My own loathing was based, or so I told myself, on various forms of manifest moral delinquency, but it ceased fairly abruptly when the era of Australian ...
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