Society & Culture Do you think this is racist??

[pickman]

whats wrong with australians? do you even think before what you say?

how on earth did this ad get through the film and tv classification board?

... just remember SUICIDE IS NOT COVERED IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF COVERAGE IF YOURE SIGNING UP WITH LIFE INSURANCE...

Why would insurance companies want to sign up people to life insurance if the insured party intends to kill themselves immediately afterwards?

And I can't see how outlining this in an ad for life insurance policies will encourage people to top themselves.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

whats wrong with australians? do you even think before what you say?

I can't tell if you're a troll or not.

 

[JUBJUB]

I can't tell if you're a troll or not.

I don't think XFactor has any idea which way it's going.Perhaps it swings both ways.

 

[Hellgood]

I don't know if anyone elese remembers it but remember the Skins ad where the theme was if you want to be good at sport like African americans you have to wear skins. Nothing was made of it.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Well, that ad didn't go by completely unnoticed but I don't remember it being banned.

Link

You have to love the first comment. How is it racist if it's stating "facts?" There's always a spin when it's the other way around.

edit: banned in NZ

 

[Silvagnis]

It's ironic that Cenk Uygur gets upset over racism in a KFC commercial, yet he is an apologist for Turkey's genocide in Armenia.

http://thedp.com/node/31078

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I'll take the word of System Of A Down over Uygur.

Tosser.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

http://thingsthatblackpeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/20-chicken-and-waffles/

 

[bit_pattern]

whats wrong with australians? do you even think before what you say?

how on earth did this ad get through the film and tv classification board?

... just remember SUICIDE IS NOT COVERED IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF COVERAGE IF YOURE SIGNING UP WITH LIFE INSURANCE...

Shouting in bold really adds weight to your argument

 

[bit_pattern]

Exactly!!....a whole lotta hoohaa, but as they say "only in America"!!

No, Australia too, unfounded hysteria crosses cultural boundaries

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2787287.htm

 

[scooterb]

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[Borgsta]

The only bit that is racist is that Americans believe that people from the West Indies are the same as African Americans.

 

[Dawson]

The only bit that is racist is that Americans believe that people from the West Indies are the same as African Americans.

They are

 

[Borgsta]

They are

exactly. They are all black

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

No, Australia too, unfounded hysteria crosses cultural boundaries

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2787287.htm

Yeah, that's the same but any chance to slam Australia, right?

 

[pickman]

The only bit that is racist is that Americans believe that people from the West Indies are the same as African Americans.

They are

Tell that to someone from the carribean.

 

[Heisenberg_]

They are

Um, no they aren't

 

[bit_pattern]

but any chance to slam Australia, right?

No, I just find rampant parochialism distasteful.

 

[Sportman1987]

Yeah, that's the same but any chance to slam Australia, right?

Seems fair enough. Mass hysteria over here because of Corby's assumed innocence vs mass hysteria over there because of assumed racism.

There's not any compelling evidence for either assumption IMO. Knowing how corrupt the Indonesian courts are I think there was a bit more merit to the Corby "outrage" but in essence I think they're comparable.

 

[bit_pattern]

There's not any compelling evidence for either assumption IMO. Knowing how corrupt the Indonesian courts are I think there was a bit more merit to the Corby "outrage" but in essence I think they're comparable.

I don't, aside from the fact that no one should go to jail for cannabis, it's been pretty well established that her family were up to their necks in drug dealing and were likely moving Australian hydro into Bali for the tourist market.

 

[Dawson]

exactly. They are all black

That wasn't the point I was making

They were all slaves from Africa

 

[Sportman1987]

That wasn't the point I was making

They were all slaves from Africa

Yeah, Americans & Boer are the same too since they're both originally from Britain....

AA & West Indians may have similar origins but they've been apart long enough to establish seperate identities.

 

[Sportman1987]

I don't, aside from the fact that no one should go to jail for cannabis, it's been pretty well established that her family were up to their necks in drug dealing and were likely moving Australian hydro into Bali for the tourist market.

I got my threads mixed up.

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Seems fair enough. Mass hysteria over here because of Corby's assumed innocence vs mass hysteria over there because of assumed racism.

You're right.

Hysteria over someone being locked up in a foreign country = Hysteria by a couple of oxygen thieves who misinterpreted a KFC commercial.

 

[bit_pattern]

Boers were Dutch

 

[pickman]

Yeah, Americans & Boer are the same too since they're both originally from Britain....

AA & West Indians may have similar origins but they've been apart long enough to establish seperate identities.

In the carribean, the culture and identities of the people differ from one island nation to the next - people from T&T are different from Jamaicans who are different from Antiguans who are different from those from Barbodos etc., yet according to some they are all supposed to be the same as African Americans...

 

[XFactor1979]

how do australians feel about the relationship between australia and indians?

the indian media has definitely beat up isolated (possibly?) over indian students being beat up and killed here

probably a different matter altogether?