Variety act in blackface on Australian TV

[Fedayn]

I have campaigned quietly for a more decent society for nearly two decades, but I wouldn't say I'm particularly notable for that.

You're as notable as a wasp in late autumn.

 

[discokermit]

he ain't for real

can't be. 111, 112 and 113 were a giveaway.

 

[untethered]

awwwww, can i adopt you to be my granddad? awwwww, quaint old racist.....

I might be old enough to be your father but I very much doubt I'm old enough to be your grandfather.

Still, it's a kind thought if you except the "racist" bit.

 

[paulhackett]

None directly, just a fellow citizen of the Anglosphere. I believe we share a Queen. Old ties run deep.

Your posts don't add up to me

 

[Orang Utan]

"Anti-racist" professionals.

are you saying that the only racists left are anti-racists?
and what exactly are anti-racist professionals? it must be hard to make money out of it!

 

[sleaterkinney]

I think you'll find there are few people better informed. I take the Economist weekly and always keep abreast of developments.

A right-wing economics paper?

 

[untethered]

and what exactly are anti-racist professionals? it must be hard to make money out of it!

"Diversity officers" and suchlike. Just about every public body has one.

And then all the various campaigners.

 

[Orang Utan]

"Diversity officers" and suchlike. Just about every public body has one.

And then all the various campaigners.

they do a very important job. how are they racist?

 

[S-A]

they just broadcast this on channel 4 news... not impressed

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's just that there happened to be a huge group of racist Australians on a mainstream television programme going out to what is presumably an appreciative audience..

What are you talking about?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

But the whole point is that this is a mainstream Australian programme and the whole thread is (yet another) let's bash the evil, racist whitey one. Frankly I've had enough of it. I'm not alone in that either.

Personally, I take each instance as it comes. Here, a group of doctors put on blackface and fright wigs, and impersonated blacks. That's not acceptable, but it doesn't turn all white people into evil racists; nor has anyone suggested that it does. Except you.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What do you call them?

'Chinese people' or 'a Chinese person'.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think anti-racism is a brilliant idea. I just wish people would take it to its natural conclusion and stop being racist against white people who in my experience are among the most fair-minded in the world.
.

Which ones? The lot? Every Finn, Ukranian, Frenchman, Mississippian and Latvian?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

London. Not much prejudice here. One of the world's most diverse cities..

Diversity in a city, is not synonymous with an absence of racism in a city.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

None directly, just a fellow citizen of the Anglosphere. I believe we share a Queen. Old ties run deep.

Are the abos part of the Anglosphere?

I think she's their queen, also.

 

[Treacle Toes]

'Chinese people' or 'a Chinese person'.

Scary that you even had to explain that.

 

[Treacle Toes]

they do a very important job. how are they racist?

They object to people making jokes and having fun in the way they like..they are fun stealers, how veryyyyyyyyy dare they!

 

[phildwyer]

I think you'll find there are few people better informed. I take the Economist weekly and always keep abreast of developments.

Brilliant. 10/10. You've got them all going now.

 

[Fedayn]

Brilliant. 10/10. You've got them all going now.

Thing is phil if you'd said the same we'd know you were leg-pulling/trolling given your view on racism. However given his rather quaint views the same cannot really ba said about untethered.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

i can't believe they didn't realise how offensive it was:

at least the host apologised. though those doctors should have done too.

Wow. I've never seen a video with so many white folks with a death wish, in all my life.

In the US, they'd have never made it out of the parking lot.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Wow. I've never seen a video with so many white folks with a death wish, in all my life.

For fear of upsetting untethered, I'd venture that that doesn't seem to apply in Australia...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

For fear of upsetting untethered, I'd venture that that doesn't seem to apply in Australia...

I just had an idea for a reality tv program. Take some Australian doctors, put them on live television in the US, and then see how far they get. Whoever makes it back home with their ass in one piece wins a prize!

 

[untethered]

they do a very important job. how are they racist?

They might have done a good job once upon a time. These days they just stir up racial tensions and consume an ever-increasing amount of scarce public funds.

Not for much longer, of course, as I mentioned above. We will be a happier and more harmonious society without them.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I just had an idea for a reality tv program. Take some Australian doctors, put them on live television in the US, and then see how far they get. Whoever makes it back home with their ass in one piece wins a prize!

Good news is, as they're trying to escape, they can operate on each other's wounds.


I think this would go over worse on US tv, than Michael Richards' 'nigger' outburst.

 

[untethered]

I just had an idea for a reality tv program.

I've got a good idea for one. Let's call it "Spot the White Racist".

Everyone gets to play. On one team you have the "taxpayers" who all chip in a chunk of their earnings every month so that the other team, the "diversity officers" can earn inflated salaries and live extremely comfortable lives trying to ruin other (white) people's reputations.

 

[untethered]

Are the abos part of the Anglosphere?

Of course, as long as they speak English. I presume that most of them do.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I've got a good idea for one. Let's call it "Spot the White Racist"..

Can I go first?

I pick.......... the australian doctors with black shoe polish on their faces, and black fright wigs.

Do I win a prize?

 

[untethered]

Diversity in a city, is not synonymous with an absence of racism in a city.

Some of the more recent arrivals take a bit of time to learn our ways but they tend to get there in the end.

If you'd just turned up in Bethnal Green from Somalia or Swaziland I expect you'd experience a bit of culture shock too.

 

[untethered]

Can I go first?

Only if you're playing for the diversity officers.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Some of the more recent arrivals take a bit of time to learn our ways but they tend to get there in the end.

If you'd just turned up in Bethnal Green from Somalia or Swaziland I expect you'd experience a bit of culture shock too.

And that relates to the presence or absence of racism in London how?