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'AUSTRALIA EST 1788' logos were racist led to people targeting @ALDIAustralia on Twitter and calling for them to be withdrawn.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.

[*crikey*mate*]

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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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because Australia Day celebrates something that isn't one of our proudest moments.

Meep - here's a date for a new National Day of Celebration

Whatever Day the decision in Mabo 1 was handed down and our true origins were recognized.

The 26th of January should be reserved for "The day we illegally **bleep**azied another culture"

[cherry*135]

The t shirts weren't racist. They were just dismissive of this country's origins prior to it becoming Australia.

They were racist and culturally insenstive.

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Yes but never in a supermarket, it is an invasion

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I'm not challenging what you believe, but why do you consider it an invasion in a supermarket and not another kind of store?

[cherry*135]

Big W - The T-shirt is emblazoned with the slogan "Australia Est 1788" - a reference to the year the First Fleet landed in Sydney.

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Some people have different ways of objecting to things I suppose 🙂 hopefully the message gets through to management

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I just wanna know what's in your undies draw that would embarrass you if anyone saw it LOLOL

(i mean in an above board way, not a pervert kinda person having a peek  iykwim)

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@boris1gary wrote:

it not actually a law, they just reserve the right to search your bag. they can't actually touch it at all. and yes sorry i have gone way off topic.

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if they have a notice displayed and visible before you enter the store, then the above is not true. (apart from the off topic bit)

[cherry*135]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

Yes but never in a supermarket, it is an invasion

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I'm not challenging what you believe, but why do you consider it an invasion in a supermarket and not another kind of store?

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That is kinda funny isn't it? I have images of armed troops hiding in the storeroom out the back and rushing in and surrounding a shopper who has been asked to open their bag for inspection.

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@freakiness wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

Kudos to Aldi for withdrawing the T-shirt design objected to, from sale.

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I agree, but technically, the t shirts were correct. That is when Australia, was established. Before this time, it wasn't Australia, but a very different place which the First Fleet illegally displaced and then took control. That's when Australia was established, but I do not understand why, with what we now know, it would be cause for any kind of celebration.

The t shirts weren't racist. They were just dismissive of this country's origins prior to it becoming Australia.

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NSW was established in 1788, not Australia.

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ummm, no, it became known as Auistralia (after a Latin translation), in the 1700's prior to Capt Cook even setting sail. 1788 was when we took posession and established British Rule over the entire continent. NSW was just where we planted the flag and started.

What year was Cocas Cola established? I bet it wasn't as big as it is now back then. It doesn't change the day it was established.

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@am*3 wrote:

The t shirts weren't racist. They were just dismissive of this country's origins prior to it becoming Australia.

They were racist and culturally insenstive.

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well then so are the reasons that we celebrate Australia Day.

Subjectively, they are not racist. They are saying exactly what Australia Day recognizes. The day that Australia was established under the Doctrine of Terra Nullius.

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@am*3 wrote:

Big W - The T-shirt is emblazoned with the slogan "Australia Est 1788" - a reference to the year the First Fleet landed in Sydney.

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when I went to school, Sydney was a part of Australia.

Australia was recognized as Australia before the First Fleet landed, the convicts on board were sentenced to deportation to Australia. Sydney was merely the landing point. The starting point of when "Australia" was established as an entity under British Rule.