racists allways last to know

[davidc4430]

Dubbo councillor Kevin Parker suspended from Bank of Queensland after sending racist joke found on Facebook

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-27/dubbo-councillor-parker-suspended-from-boq-after-racist-email...

he used the old 'some of my friends are aboriginal' excuse!

maybe the aboriginals he aproved loans to were the ones that dont look aboriginal?

ticked all his boxes as just like us.

[davidc4430]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@davidc4430 wrote:

"All seven Aboriginal dwarfs, Dealer, Stealer, Mugger, Carjacker, Shoplifter, Drinker, Bludger, have walked off the set," the email reportedly said.

in an email purportadly anouncing a new snow white movie using an aboriginal cast the above was the names chosen for the dwarfs.

not really all that funy

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Agree, not nice. 

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btw, there is no movie, it was just someones idea of a harmless joke.

[icyfroth]

Fake News is the new black.

[icyfroth]

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@morgana2408 wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

Whilst jokes may be ok, some are in poor taste.

And even though no malice meant, surely he can see it being sensitive to some.

I can't phathom how celebrities, media, higher positioned people don't learn to keep their mouth shut at inappropriate thoughts. 

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Yes that's true. You can't be too careful , you have to triple-think everything you say, 

So much for freedom of speech...

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Freedom of speech does not mean freedom  from consequences. If a person has said something insulting or stupid others have the right to use their freedom of speech to criticise and call you out on it. Speech is an action, actions have consequences. 

There has never been absolute free speech in Australia, nor should there be. We've always had defamation laws, laws based on the idea that there will be consequences if your speech harms others

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Sorry, but that means there is no "freedom of speech" in Australia. In other words say what you're allowed to say, othewise, suffer the consequences.

I see we haven''t moved forward much from British colonialism...

[imastawka]

Some of us may presume that because we live in a liberal democracy like Australia, certain personal freedoms are a given – like free speech – and that any imposition on a person’s speech would be viewed as an attempt to curtail the freedom.

Additionally, we’re going to presume (for the sake of the topic of this piece) that many Australians would be familiar with the US Constitution and specifically the First Amendment which states; “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…”, and we’re going to also guess (again for efficacy) that some people may believe that we here in Australia also enjoy a similar type of Constitutional protection: But do we? Well… it must be said that Australia’s free speech laws are interesting to say the least.

First, let’s get the easy part out of the way: Australia does not have an explicit First Amendment equivalent enshrining the protection of freedom of speech in our Constitution. So where does this leave us? Well, it wasn’t until 1992 in Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills and Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth (ACTV) 177 CLR 1 where the issue of free speech was significantly dealt with.

More here -

https://www.findlaw.com.au/articles/4529/do-we-have-the-right-to-freedom-of-speech-in-austr.aspx

[go-tazz]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Yes that's true. You can't be too careful , you have to triple-think everything you say, 

So much for freedom of speech...

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Australia does not have explicit freedom of speech in any constitutional or statutory declaration of rights.

Freedom of speech may be upheld in the US but that's not the case in Aus.

That's the main reason why people get sued over here as you can't just say whatever you want as seems to

be the case in the US and most people tend to confuse it as us having those same rights when we don't.

The only ones protected are politicians.

[icyfroth]

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@go-tazz wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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Yes that's true. You can't be too careful , you have to triple-think everything you say, 

So much for freedom of speech...

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Australia does not have explicit freedom of speech in any constitutional or statutory declaration of rights.

Freedom of speech may be upheld in the US but that's not the case in Aus.

That's the main reason why people get sued over here as you can't just say whatever you want as seems to

be the case in the US and most people tend to confuse it as us having those same rights when we don't.

The only ones protected are politicians.

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and lefties

[go-tazz]

We have the right of opinion and expression but that's different to speech.

[lionrose.7]

Hate and racist speech is a crime in Australia 

The only one that wants this sort of speech are White Supremacists which I class as Terrorists 

[the_great_she_elephant]

Icyfroth wrote Yes that's true. You can't be too careful , you have to triple-think everything you say, 

So much for freedom of speech...

How strange, I've never had to triple think any joke before repeating it in public. I just ask myself 'if I were the butt of this joke, would I find it hurtful?' If the answer is 'Yes' then I don't tell it. 

I think that's called common poiteness or good manners..

[icyfroth]

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@go-tazz wrote:

We have the right of opinion and expression but that's different to speech.

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Obviously.

Yet how is the right of opinion and expression different to right of speech?