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.

[i-need-a-martini]

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.

[nero_bolt]

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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:

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Now thats an excellent idea so I will post this again.. thank you for the suggestion

The Left’s race to call us all bigots

THE self-appointed tolerance tsars of Australia are having such a hard time proving Australia is a land of bigots they are now jumping at shadows.

They see racism where most people see patriotism.  They hear dog whistles that never sounded. They are obviously losing their collective minds.

Take the “racist singlet” ­furore whipped up by Greens MP Adam Bandt. “If you don’t love it, leave” says the caption under an Australian flag ­emblazoned on a blue singlet sold at Woolworths.

Nothing racist about that. It’s a call to patriotism.

It’s also a message to whingers to stop complaining and do something positive about their situation. What could be more Australian?

But to some warped people, even the flag is racist.

Like the wowsers of old, who saw prurience everywhere in their crusade to force their morality on others, the tolerance totalitarians of today see bigotry in all things which don’t accord with their own rigid worldview.

Perhaps, like all morality zealots, they are compensating for a guilty conscience.

Whatever the reason, when Canberra resident George Craig spied the innocent singlet in Cairns while on a fishing trip, he jumped to conclusions. “Woolworths Cairns, selling racist singlets for everyday low prices! #racist,” he tweeted on Sunday.

Bandt, who must have very little to do, pounced on the ­opportunity to parade his moral virtue. “Just seen on Twitter: Woolworths in Cairns are ­reportedly selling these singlets ... Divisive and ridiculous — these should be pulled ­immediately.”

To its eternal shame, within hours Woolworths had caved in like a cheap tent. They phoned Bandt to claim two stores had “inadvertently” stocked the offending singlet.

“It was delivered to us in error and should never been allowed on our shelves,” Woolworths said in a statement.

“The sentiment expressed on the singlet does not reflect the views of Woolworths.

“[We] believe in fostering an environment where everyone is treated with dignity, courtesy and respect.”

Everyone except people who love Australia: Woolworths has decided they’re racists. Isn’t there someone in the corporate world with the fortitude to stand up to ­irrational social media ­campaigns? Every capitulation just empowers the forces of darkness.

“Woolworths has just called to say they have pulled the singlets!” crowed Bandt. “Thanks for standing up for ­inclusion and acceptance.”

But it wasn’t inclusion and acceptance. It was a vicious slander against our national character. This is the favourite pastime of the politically correct Left.

It’s not a singlet causing division, but them.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/the-lefts-race-to-call-us-all-bigots/story-fni0cwl5-12...

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@nero_wulf wrote:

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.

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No it is not racist at all. What race is it racist against?

[poddster]

I find Woolies excuse a bit difficult yo believe. A random delivery of an unordered article and inadvertently making it to the shelves.

Almost like a Labor sidestep, same script writer?

[azureline**]

Actually, it isn't just the " left " who are calling for the banning of this kind of divisive product. Nor is it only the "right" who are bigots and racists.

What's with the vitriol and anger surrounding anything that some don't agree with?

It's very clear that the shirts conjure up a bigotted and racist attitude, given the way people are reacting.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Personally I find it absurd that people would feel the need to wrap themselves in a flag in order to proclaim their patriotism. insularity, but then I am English by birth and we tend to have an inbred aversion to jingoistic rhetoric.

THE JELLY BELLIED FLAG FLAPPER

And so he worked towards his peroration — which, by the way, he used later with overwhelming success at a meeting of electors — while they sat, flushed and uneasy, in sour disgust. After many, many words, he reached for the cloth-wrapped stick and thrust one hand in his bosom. This — this was the concrete symbol of their land — worthy of all honor and reverence! Let no boy look on this flag who did not purpose to worthily add to its imperishable lustre. He shook it before them — a large calico Union Jack, staring in all three colors, and waited for the thunder of applause that should crown his effort.

They looked in silence. They had certainly seen the thing before — down at the coastguard station, or through a telescope, half-mast high when a brig went ashore on Braunton Sands; above the roof of the Golf-club, and in Keyte’s window, where a certain kind of striped sweetmeat bore it in paper on each box. But the College never displayed it; it was no part of the scheme of their lives; the Head had never alluded to it; their fathers had not declared it unto them. It was a matter shut up, sacred and apart. What, in the name of everything caddish, was he driving at, who waved that horror before their eyes? Happy thought! Perhaps he was drunk.

The Head saved the situation by rising swiftly to propose a vote of thanks, and at his first motion, the school clapped furiously, from a sense of relief.

“And I am sure,” he concluded, the gaslight full on his face, “that you will all join me in a very hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Raymond Martin for the most enjoyable address he has given us.”

To this day we shall never know the rights of the case. The Head vows that he did no such thing; or that, if he did, it must have been something in his eye; but those who were present are persuaded that he winked, once, openly and solemnly, after the word “enjoyable.” Mr. Raymond Martin got his applause full tale. As he said, “Without vanity, I think my few words went to their hearts. I never knew boys could cheer like that.”

(From Stalky And Co: Rudyard Kipling)

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@nero_wulf wrote:

I wonder if the left and sensitive would prefer this on a T-shirt

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It is against Australian Law to deface the flag by superimposing slogans onto it.

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Yet A Current Affair were not charged for doing a show with an Aussie flag in the backgroud and superimposing a Mosque onto it?

[poddster]

Oh look what I found. is this a fast retort?

[boris1gary]

the outrage from the left, what a laugh - wasn't the "left" who started this thread was it? and isn't it ray hadley the man, (another right wing warrior) whose boss called him a psychotic bully whining about it in the media - seems it isn't the left who love to spray us all with their outrage.

[boris1gary]

oh dear podster, expect some editing from the mods as those symbols are a cover for a swear word.