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.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@lightningdance wrote:

maybe youd like that as a flag seeing as you hate the national flag and all it stands for.

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I do NOT HATE the Australian Flag. I never did say that I hate it and there is no reason to imply that I said any such thing.

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Now here's a conundrum. the only people I know who have openly stated that they don't love the Australian flag are those who feel it is not "Australian" enough and would like to see the Union Jack removed from it. I wonder where they are supposed to go.

[karliandjacko]

Get over it and stop the hounding.

[poddster]

The majority did not like the way the country was being run and so they voted and changed the leadership to adults. And now the vocal minority is having a bit of a whinge 🙂

[lightningdance]

its   not up to you to adjudicate how a thread is going.  too close to bone for the bigots and racists who anonymously sit behind a computer,  state they hate the flag and what it represents?  calling for a thread to be shut down?? typical of the left whingers.

this is a topic about a tee shirt.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@muppet_detector wrote:

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?

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The reason the issue has been raised muppet is because Woolworths was selling them.

If some dodgy ebay seller has them or they are selling at some bogan stall at the markets, then the issue is an individual issue. The tshirt is still in poor taste but a single seller with a minor market isn't going to make an impact.

However, when our largest supermarket, who has a responsibility to its stakeholders and it's large customer base, decides to align itself with potentially racist material, then the community sits up and take note. 

[lightningdance]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

Get over it and stop the hounding.

are you 11?

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[i-need-a-martini]

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@muppet_detector wrote:

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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.

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That message I posted was specifically about values of racism as opposed to values of patriotism.

The drink drive message doesn't fall into either category.

[boris1gary]

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@lurker172602 wrote:
(to no one in particular)

Don't we live in a democracy? If we don't like the way things are going in the country don't we just vote to change them? We don't have to leave do we? Wouldn't that make our country something other than democratic?

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or can't we maybe "like it a lot", or "I love Australia but am not in love with Australia right now" or "I have mixed feelings" - the slogan sounds like a Patsy Cline song anyway and wasn't the singlet made in China - hardly a great way to show "patriotism".

[poddster]

Martini, can you please enlighten me as to how the Australian or the the words under it can be even remotely misconstrued as having anything depicting racial prejudice

[nero_bolt]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@muppet_detector wrote:

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?

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The reason the issue has been raised muppet is because Woolworths was selling them.

If some dodgy ebay seller

I am sure that the  registered Australian business selling these on eBay will be very pleased when informed that they are being referred to as dodgy by you....   A very slanderous comment there 

has them or they are selling at some bogan stall at the markets,

Again a very slanderiuous comment, why would someone at a  market selling T-Shirts be a bogan? 

then the issue is an individual issue. The tshirt is still in poor taste but a single seller with a minor market isn't going to make an impact.

However, when our largest supermarket, who has a responsibility to its stakeholders and it's large customer base, decides to align itself with potentially racist material, then the community sits up and take note. 

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