My wife is Asian, Fakir and I have a lot of Asian friends, they dont have any problems here, maybe its just you, maybe people just dont like you, could that be a factor.

fakir wrote on Oct 10^th, 2009 at 4:06am:


So what? You have the right to be offended. But that is not an argument. You are sensitive, we get it. You are entitled to say that Austeralians are not exquisitely polite. Fine. But just because you confuse t with racism does not make it true.

You speak as if th mere fact of your 'minority' status and ethnic background was somehow a moral quality. As if because of these you are infallible in your assessment of what is and is not racist. You are playing victim. But you are not one.

Your big red statement above work just as well if it i turned around:

JUST BECAUSE IT IS OFFENSIVE TO YOU, DOESN'T MEAN IT IS OFFENSIVE TO SOMEONE ELSE


Your tintedness and Asian orgins do not make you right.

fakir wrote on Oct 10^th, 2009 at 4:06am:


Precisely. In the case of this skit, it was  the reaction of Harry Connick Jnr that made it racist. Americans just don't get the humour.

The only thing to do when somebody takes offense is to apologise. Then, it's end of story.

The skit was in bad taste perhaps, but Hey Hey was built on bad taste humour. Obviously Australia is not really as receptive to bad taste humour nowadays, especially since the skit about terminally ill kids went wrong on Chaser.

I believe that the intent of this skit was not racist in any way, and to say that it shows that Australians are racist because of that is totally off the planet. American political correctness is off the planet.

Darryl Somers was obviously horrified that Connick Jr took offense, because it was just intended to be a bit of buffoonery. Besides, there was only one White Anglosaxon among the performers. One was even of Indian background. It was obviously not intended to be racist.  
To be quite honest I was more offended by the self righteous ignorant attitude of the American talk show guests "They treat their aborigines badly". How the bugger would they know?   

I have good friends of many nationalities, colours and religions. I am the least racist person I know, but even I have caused offense a few times by not thinking.

On one occasion, a Canadian guy was handing around Maple leaf badges. I made a comment  about the Marijuana leaf. I was quoting a line by John Candy from the comedy "Canadian Bacon", but the guy took offense. I explained that it was just a quote from the John Candy movie, and that I didn't mean any offense. It didn't matter that John Candy was Canadian or that it was quite a funny line, he took offense, I apologised, no fuss, and that was that.  

Im not saying there s no racism here Abu, Im saying that if you go looking for it, you will find it, you can find anything if you look for it. At my local Hungry Jacks, there used to be a mixed bag of employees until an Indian manager took over, now only Indians work there, Is that racism by them, or by me noticing it. Im sure I would be called racist for saying something  and yet where is the diversity that we must apply used there. If I only employed Aussies Im sure questions would be asked.

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I wouldn't expect them to find it offensive becasue I don't find it offensive when black people dress as white people.
I doubt if women get offended when a man dresses in drag. Maybe horses get offended when a human puts on a horse suit, I don't know, you'll need to ask Mr.Ed.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but why would every black person associate themselves with the Jackson Five?  Are they that far up themselves that they think that they possess the talents of the Jacksons just because of their skin colour?
I'm beginning to think that you moved to Canada just to be closer to your own kind - the idiot yanks.

fakir wrote on Oct 10^th, 2009 at 4:06am:

Fakir, you're damaged, disingenuous and weak.

Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize should do some good for race relations, although it seems very premature. He'll have a lot to live up to.

Just having a black President (although he's half white) - is closing the racist divide you would assume.

it was a award given based on obamas race.