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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