Should We Ban Australia Day As Well?

[icyfroth]

We are after all celebrating the landing of the First Fleet on January 26th 1988...

Aldi pulls 'racist' T-shirts after online outrage

Discount supermarket chain Aldi has pulled an Australia Day T-shirt and singlet from its stores amid claims on social media that designs featured on the garments were racist.

Complaints that the range of promotional T-shirts with 'AUSTRALIA EST 1788' logos were racist led to people targeting @ALDIAustralia on Twitter and calling for them to be withdrawn.

The T-shirts and singlets were scheduled to go on sale on this week in the lead up to January 26.

Twitter users slammed the design as racist and culturally insensitive to indigenous Australians, who inhabited the continent for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.

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Perhaps we should abandon the celebration altogether.

[lakeland27]

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@*ibis wrote:

Do they sell "I am an overeducated, smug, pretentious Aussie" tshirts?

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 there's no market . the PM bought his education for bragging rights, he in no way intends to use it. after all of those blows to the head he can barely remember 10% of it anyway.

[bluecat*dancing]

The day on which the indigenous peoples of this country are finally Recognised in the constitution should become the new Australia Day. January 26th could become First Fleet Day.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@*ibis wrote:

Do they sell "I am an overeducated, smug, pretentious Aussie" tshirts?

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I've never seen any in the shops, but If you.you really want one, I'm sure someone here would know you where you could get it printed..

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@gkam2 wrote:

It is correct to say that Australia was not established in 1788 and if that is a reason to ban Australia Day then get rid of Christmas as 25 Dec. was not Christs true day of birth, get rid of Easter as it changes date each year and get rid of the Queens Birthday as her Birthday is not in June. The nation of Australia did not come into being untill Federation in 1901 prior to that we were a collection of seperate colonies and quite frankly who cares, it is just a 'T' shirt and i have seen much worse that should be banned.

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You may not care, but clearly many indegenous people do. Maybe you feel offending them doesn't matter -  common sense and basic good manners tells me that it does.

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Yes but then surely it shows a lack of commonsense and bad manners to celebrate Australia Day as well then doesn't it? I would think Aborigines would be even more offended by declaring a National Day of celebration of when they were invaded by our ancestors?

[cherry*135]

This issue was a commercial transaction ( t shirt put out for sale) wasn't it? Aldi withdrew the t-shirt quick smart. Why make it into something it is not and jump to statments like 'should we ban Australia Day'.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

Why do we need to Ban Australia Day?

Withdrawing 'racist , culturally insensitve & historically wrong' T shirts, from sale by one supermarket doesn't mean Australia Day should be cancelled.

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Same principal, though. You could call Aussies celebrating the 26th January 1788 culturally insensitive and racist too.

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I don't get any of that comment .. from same principle part to the second sentence.

Why does one supermarket voluntarily withdrawing  one  t shirt design after complaints from its customers  = Australia Day should be banned??

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Think about it. It may come to you.

[freakiness]

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@pct001wine wrote:

They'll now take on collectable status amongst the beachside bogans and ferals.  No doubt a few will slip through the net and find their way onto eBay.

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Nah, they're still on sale in Kmart, Big W and a multiple other stores.

[cherry*135]

freaki - exactly the same T shirt as mentioned in the opening post?

Do K mart, Big W and Aldi sell identical clothes/slogan tshirts? (they are all owned by different companies)

[boris1gary]

should't be shopping at auldi anyway, it's owned by 2 blokes (think they might be brothers, can't remember am tired)) who rate as two of the richest retailers in the world,  they are a non-union shop who managed to do away with a lot of jobs by selling off palettes instead of proper shelves and lots of other little tricks etc.

[freakiness]

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@am*3 wrote:

freaki - exactly the same T shirt as mentioned in the opening post?

Do K mart, Big W and Aldi sell identical clothes/slogan tshirts? (they are all owned by different companies)

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Not identical, same message.  ie est. 88