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]

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@poddster wrote:

 ......because they're leaners ......

Which way di they lean, left or right 🙂

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That would depend on which way the wind blows at the time.

[kilroy_is_here]

As I don't fall into any of the groups you mentioned , it is just plain rude

[karliandjacko]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
As I don't fall into any of the groups you mentioned , it is just plain rude

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what are you talking about?

what is just plain rude?

[raptor_rebooted]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
As I don't fall into any of the groups you mentioned , it is just plain rude

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what are you talking about?

what is just plain rude?

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read my question again in context.

it is not about teaching children.

it is about social interactions between

adults in real life vs online and the

social restrictions some apply to one

but not the other.

[lightningdance]

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
As I don't fall into any of the groups you mentioned , it is just plain rude

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what are you talking about?

what is just plain rude?

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Correcting a persons spelling and grammar  everybody on here knows has dyslexia, then making a joke out of it. You did tthat, it's rude and humiliating and not on imo.

[karliandjacko]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
As I don't fall into any of the groups you mentioned , it is just plain rude

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what are you talking about?

what is just plain rude?

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read my question again in context.

it is not about teaching children.

it is about social interactions between

adults in real life vs online and the

social restrictions some apply to one

but not the other.

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I did read your question again.  I answered in a general manner. I said I bite my tongue when people use aks.  I did not say that I would correct anyone so I don't see how my comment could be perceived as just plain rude, although  I do think it would be rude to correct people in public about their pronunciation, hence the poor tongue getting the bite.

[karliandjacko]

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@lightningdance wrote:

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@karliandjacko wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
As I don't fall into any of the groups you mentioned , it is just plain rude

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what are you talking about?

what is just plain rude?

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Correcting a persons spelling and grammar  everybody on here knows has dyslexia, then making a joke out of it. You did tthat, it's rude and humiliating and not on imo.

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When and where did I that?  

It was Poddster's typos I made a joke about and in case you haven't noticed he played pay back so he can't have been too offended.

[lightningdance]

uhmmm...ok

[raptor_rebooted]

OK

[lloydslights]

Poddy I am going to tip my toe into the water here.

My knowledge is only from stories my uncle and Dad and an old lady friend told me about their "war" within WW11 and after.

Had the atomic bombs not dropped, the POWS (and some of the Jap guards) wouldn't have made it home.  They were dying.  Not only from the starvation but from the continual physical ill treatment and seeing their mates die because of that treatment.

The young girls in Malaysia initially used as tea-ceremony maids who eventually were used for "comfort" were also thanking (selfishly?) that the bombs had brought the enemy to their knees and consequently the end of the war.

Civilians in Australia were harmed by the war.  The death of loved sons and husbands and nurses, the not-knowing, the mental anguish for everyone everywhere during the event and long afterwards in shell shock and memories that haunted them till they died.  

There was not the support that is available now for newly returned servicemen.

I don't know if there was any support for the Vietnam vets upon their return.  What they witnessed and experienced must have been just as powerfully traumatic. Their treatment was not fair by the media and consequently by the general public. But support is available now, isn't it?

Many people question what has been in the past.  And it is impossible to change that past.  We can't un-think it or un-experience it. But we have to adapt (somehow) our lives to live the "now" life.  

PEACE TO ALL

DEB