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.

[cherry*135]

About trawling through old posts - they are available through the search feature.. no trawling through posts necessary if  one knows what post one is looking for. Much better to refer to the actual post than infer things about others but provide no proof.

For example, If a person claims the word bogan is offensive but  they themselves made a post(s) in the past knocking bogans, what is wrong with pointing that out? It is hypocritical to remark negatively on what others post, when one has done s the exact same thing themselves.

[cherry*135]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

lol yes at least be more subtle

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Do you post errors made by others on the Chuckle Store?

If someone told me I spelt a word wrong, I would appreciate it, take notice and spell it correctly from then on.

I used to spell separately wrong ( TAFE teacher pointed that out).  IN REAL LIFE.

[azureline**]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
How is "hmmm white or wholemeal " anything but a joke at my expense

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certainly came across that way.

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 It may come across that way to you or anyone else with an agenda................ however you would be mistaken.

This continually trying to make this to be much more of an issue, than it really was, is also akin to the bullying some have accused others of doing.

[lloydslights]

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@am*3 wrote:

If someone told me I spelt a word wrongly, I would appreciate it, take notice and spell it correctly from then on.

I used to spell separately wrongly ( TAFE teacher pointed that out).  IN REAL LIFE.

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Please  "appreciate, take notice and use the correct spelling of the same adverb used twice in your above response.  The "how?" word.  

i.e. How did you run?  I ran quickly.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

DEB

[cherry*135]

.??

"Wrong and wrongly are both adverbs, meaning incorrectly, badly, or mistakenly. Usage authorities differ on whether using wrong this way is acceptable, but in real-world usage, the adverbial wrong is not just widely accepted but common."

Yet the average Democrat respondent got nearly 60 percent of the answers wrong. [American Spectator]

The patients also argue that the laws wrongly give local cities and counties the ability to ban marijuana dispensaries. [KRDO.com]

Then in 1979, all sorts of things went wrong for Carter. [Daily Tribune]

[H[e often answered wrongly on purpose to amuse the class. [The Observer]

An online subheading and picture caption wrongly stated that Ian Edmondson, assistant editor (news) at the News of the World, had been sacked. [Guardian]

http://grammarist.com/usage/wrong-wrongly/

[karliandjacko]

and further:

The adverbial wrong always follows the verb it modifies (e.g., he answered wrong). It also follows the object of the verb if there is one (e.g., he answered the question wrong). And wrongly can go either before or after its verb (e.g., he was wrongly imprisoned by the state; the state imprisoned him wrongly).

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

While the shirt is obviously not racist, it is confrontational.  You don't have to be free, white, and  21 to love Oz, and by the same token, you don't have to be free, white and 21 to take note of Australia's flaws.

This is the t-shirt worn by 3 Medford, Oregon schoolteachers to a Conservative rally a number of years ago........and prompted their ejection from said rally........

[twinkles**stars]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

lol yes at least be more subtle

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Do you post errors made by others on the Chuckle Store?

If someone told me I spelt a word wrong, I would appreciate it, take notice and spell it correctly from then on.

I used to spell separately wrong ( TAFE teacher pointed that out).  IN REAL LIFE.

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But....with auto correct there are many mistakes made.

I find typing on phone and tablet I make many mistakes 🙂

[lloydslights]

am*3.  

I had tried to write in a non-confrontational manner when I brought my view to your use of the word "wrong".  However, it appears things went "haywire".

I've looked a little further than your given "grammarist" site; from which I agree totally with the examples given.

I concede that "common language" is taking over and your use of the word is acceptable in current times - correctly or incorrectly.

I am not familiar with using it or hearing it in the context used by you; in fact it grates on my ears greatly.  My classical English reading material  probably contributes to that; and for that reason, I raised the matter relatively quickly .

Note: I do make allowances for dyslexia and other possible restrictions of others, when I know about those constraints.

DEB 

[raptor_rebooted]

you are correct.  "wrong" instead of "wrongly" is used in

informal language. http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/wrongly

to me it would be the same as "incorrect" -

you wouldn't say - "i wrote that incorrect" - 

you would say - "i wrote that incorrectly"