Is this singlet RACIST

[nero_bolt]

Looks like yet another storm in a  tea cup from the easily offended no sense of humour and we hate Australia mob

This Singlet and T-shirt has been available for a number of years on the web, on eBay and in many shops around the country until some super sensitive poonce from Canberra on an end of season  footy trip to Cairns with his team  decided to get himself all offended and post a pic etc and then the usual easily we hate Australia types all jumped on it  (seems some ACT AFL players are over sensitive)

So is this RACIST or simply a singlet that’s says you are proud to be Australian and  if you don’t like it here leave.

Is this yet another storm in a tea cup from the easily offended humourless types 

An original Tweet by George Craig from Canberra  posting a photo of the singlet with the caption “@woolworths cairns, selling racist singlets for everyday low prices! #racist” was shared by Greens MP Adam Bandt on his Facebook page.

[karliandjacko]

Still pestering?

[muppet_detector]

Martini, I think I read somewhere that the t shirt wasn't a new thing, it had been around for a few years.

Why is it racist now when it hasn't been racist for the last three years?

When I first saw the t shirt, I thought it was adressing something like "dole bludgers". You see on TV people saying how unfair "it" all is because the government stopped some payment because they didn't go to a job interview 7 times (for example). And that is with me having been focused on the Burqa threads the last few days. I didn't cotton onto the racist angle 9or infer a Muslim angle until I read the article (and not just look at the pictures)

From that extensive pool of research candidtates (just me) I think it might be a case of each person injecting their own interpretation onto  it (just like they did with the Nike ads) and when one person spoke up a few more decided to get offended as well.

[boris1gary]

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@poddster wrote:

Blue text????

Are you being subliminally brain washed to have right tendencies?

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just making it more pleasing to the eye for the poster who requested it. 

[karliandjacko]

The same message has been used in the past and it has caused the same arguments in the past.

[muppet_detector]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

And I feel the urge to post this again as a reminder for those that appear to have missed it last time:

Someone very wise once said to me that messages of patriotism are positive, enriching and are about self. Whilst messages of racism are negative, confrontational and are about someone else.

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But did they say that every positive message was patriotism and every message that was negative, confrontational and about someone else was about racism?

The message may be negative, confrontational and about someone else, but does that necessarily make it racist?

Example - a national advertising campaign "if you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot".

Negative = check

Confrontational = check

About somebody else = check.

[pct001wine]

I much prefer the Mambo loud shirt a while back.  I can't find a pic of the actual shirt (even though I have one at home) but this a postcard of the front of the shirt.   I think it's time to give it a bit of an airing.

[muppet_detector]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

The same message has been used in the past and it has caused the same arguments in the past.

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I seem to remember a big drama being made when Cathy Freeman ran her victory lap with both the Australian and Aboriginal flag.

I thought that was really cool, from memory, others were offended.

Sometimes i think that people just like to argue.

[poddster]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@poddster wrote:

Blue text????

Are you being subliminally brain washed to have right tendencies?

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just making it more pleasing to the eye for the poster who requested it. 

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So you are not that intransigent in your belief after all 🙂

[k0llectable5]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

Still pestering?

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It is just a question Karli.  You are on a chat board.  If peeps never asked questions, my bet is there'd be very little chat going on.  I really dont think you can class Neros questioning as bullying.  Repeatative yes, but they were asked with politeness and a civil tone, it's not bullying imo.

I think though that the question is a tad tricky to just answer like that.  Alot of thought would need to go into designing a new flag, choosing the symbols and colors you want.  If it were me designing it, I'd need to sit down for hours and fiddle with a whole heap of different designs until I came up with one I liked.  I personally dont have a problem with our flag.  But it would be a good gig being the one to design the new one.  

I am sorry if I have offended you, because I do respect you as a poster here, I just cant help but pick up on hyperbole when I see it. 

[poddster]

Personally, I dont mind a good robust debate 🙂