"nothing as dehumanizing as being considered one of the French"
This made oi larff
AP deletes ‘the French' tweet and apologises after it is widely mocked
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 28 Jan 2023, 12:12,
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Nae doot one of the definitely not bigoted slashlinks krew will chip in with their fascinating viewpoint
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Not "the" please, you fucking caveman. We're "people who are definitely not bigoted".
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 28 Jan 2023, 15:08,
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I prefer differently-bigotry challenged
Also, I find your derogatory use of the hate speech term 'caveman' disturbing. Not all Palaeolithic people lived in caves, and some were quite forward-thinking if viewed in the context of the era they lived in, you retard.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 28 Jan 2023, 16:31,
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I was rather taken aback when I spent time with a bunch of Australian junior doctors
and they kept referring to things not working properly as being "retarded" (e.g. "my knee's retarded" after a long day's hike up a mountain). It's fascinating how some words are considered unacceptable in some branches of the English language, but Australians don't bat an eyelid. The bunch of mongs.
N.B. by "the English language", of course I mean the language used by the English.
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They unironically refer to the Pakistan cricket team as the Pakis, though right?
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My anecdotal, unscientific observation
was that the Australians were the group of people with a higher incidence of being deeply, deeply racist than any other group of people I had personally observed.
Then encountered the /links.
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Have you ever met someone from 'insert almost any country here'?
(Ps kudos for the irony of your statement on 'all' Australians)
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Oh yeah, notoriously racist and hostile to immigrants, gay people, trans people, Jewish people...
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there was a study a few years back where they followed cohorts of immigrants in around 20 western countries
and did follow-up interviews at various points I think 5 year and 10 year from memory, asking them things like how well they felt accepted and assimilated into their new countries.
Australia was rated the highest for positive experiences at each point, out of all the countries. Despite the fact that we have our fair share of crazy racist fuckwits, it's actually quite an accepting and easy place to live and fit in. They might makes some joke about you to your face, but those same people will invite you over for a barbie, and in other countries they never do.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 2:04,
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pakis is a proscribed word because racists in the UK made it so, due to their history of using it as an epithet
it's not intrinsically racist word, it's a simple diminutive like 'Aussie'. So given that australia doesn't have a racist and troubled history with our pakistani community, only aussies who are aware of how it's been used by racist brits might avoid it, ironically or not. And given that you hardly hear it on in british tv unless you happen to be watching some gritty council estate drama or doco about football hooligans, it'd be hard to pick up for those not tuned into british culture
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 2:26,
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i don't think wog was every used other than in a derogatory context when used for people,
though it seems to be reclaimed somewhat in australia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog_Boys_Forever) where it was reserved for greeks, italians and lebos . i think it has broader usage in england to mean anyone with dark skin, though I could be wrong
it was also used as a word for a cold or flu among older australians, "not coming into work, I've got a nasty wog" ,though I've no idea of the etymology of either usage
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 7:07,
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I think it was pretty innocuous at one point
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wog_Boy
I could be wrong, but I remember telling an Aussie friend (well I say friend, as if I would stoop so low!) that it would have caused a scandal in UK.
This was decades ago, usage of some words change as pointed out in this thread
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 8:22,
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nah, the bloke who was it in was one of the first to reclaim it (in a tv show Acropolis Now), and in doing so took a bit of the sting out of it.
a bit like the lgb community reclaimed queer for themselves
but it was always an epithet. but it has a different application in australia. It's a bit like i was talking about with paki, or words like fanny and pissed between the uk and the states.
there was an actor in that wog boy film who was going out with my cousin a few years previous to it. they split and she got stuck with the dog.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 12:19,
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Don't get me started on people who are Australian. Dangling their fucking corks like people who are spastics.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Sat 28 Jan 2023, 17:00,
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It's something you do to flames,
concrete and engines
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 28 Jan 2023, 19:05,
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