# Oz dopers , what is the straight dope on (recent racist attacks)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192 "2009-06-09T09:22:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/21 "2009-06-11T22:42:05Z")
> [@Weedy](#): > > Australians are often quite racist, though (IMO) > [@bathsheba](#): > > Germans are worse. > [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Black people are stupid. These comments may reflect your humble opinions, but it still isn’t appropriate for IMHO. Let’s not have any more of these comments in the thread. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/22 "2009-06-11T23:01:49Z")
What, we’re not allowed to whoosh in IMHO any more? ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/23 "2009-06-12T01:32:12Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > \ > > Revised title to better reflect topic of thread. > > \ Czarcasm,Rico.. Thanx. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/24 "2009-06-12T14:24:12Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > What, we’re not allowed to whoosh in IMHO any more? Wooshs are racist! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/25 "2009-06-12T19:26:47Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > These comments may reflect your humble opinions, but it still isn’t appropriate for IMHO. Let’s not have any more of these comments in the thread. > > Thank you. You have got to be kidding me. These comments? Two posters make blanket bigoted statements, and I get warned for mocking them? Holy shit. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/26 "2009-06-13T13:06:23Z")
Mine was a whoosh. I’m Australian and it was in response to Weedy’s comment. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/27 "2009-06-13T16:15:11Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > But you often only start to notice when you move from somewhere where you’re part of the majority, to where you’re not. Quoted for truth. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/28 "2009-06-13T18:28:49Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > You have got to be kidding me. These comments? Two posters make blanket bigoted statements, and I get warned for mocking them? Holy shit. It wasn’t a warning. It was a request to cut it out. I know it gets said so often it’s trite now, but there’s no tone of voice on a message board. There were no smileys. There was no indication whatsoever that it wasn’t serious. So I said to stop doing it. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/29 "2009-06-13T22:12:51Z")
In future, I’ll make my wooshes less wooshey. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/30 "2009-06-14T11:08:00Z")
well _I_ definitely felt it ruffle my hair 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/31 "2009-06-14T16:40:09Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > It wasn’t a warning. It was a request to cut it out. A request? You have an odd interpretation of that word. Sure looked like an imperative to me. > [@](#): > > I know it gets said so often it’s trite now, but there’s no tone of voice on a message board. There were no smileys. There was no indication whatsoever that it wasn’t serious. And the ones I quoted? They were A-OK? Or did you think I said them too? > [@](#): > > So I said to stop doing it. Wait. I thought it was a request. You want to start over? I’m confused. ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/32 "2009-06-14T22:05:40Z")
Dude. Weedy made a silly statement. I mocked Weedy with a whoosh. You missed the whoosh and mocked both of us. The wombat asked us **all** to stop. ---
**Author:** ![jakesteele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jakesteele](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jakesteele)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/33 "2009-06-14T22:56:08Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Like other people I am amazed to hear about this but looking at tonight’s news it seems that, here in Sydney at least, it is a case of people drawing extremely dubious conclusions about crime in a somewhat dodgy bit of town. > > The piece covered a street demonstration in Harris Park by Indian “youths” who were complaining that police don’t treat seriously their complaints that they are being targeted. There was no-one on the streets other than Indians and police. This may be because Harris Park is commonly known as Little India - many Indian born people live there and it is full of Indian restaurants and shops. > > I work in the suburb next to it, Parramatta, and among the few hundred people where I work there is the occasional robbery or assault but, because we are from various backgrounds, we don’t make the connection that people from our office are targets. > > On checking the news [here](http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/09/2593630.htm?section=justin) is a piece that supports my view. In America if two white guys beat up a black guy for any reason, it is immediately labeled ‘a racially motivated hate crime’. If two black guys beat up a white guy for any reason, it is labeled ‘a random act of senseless violence’. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/34 "2009-06-15T04:38:09Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > You want to start over? I’m confused. No, you’re not. If you wish to complain about moderation, you know where to do it, and it isn’t here. Please make sure to link to my original post, and tell me how I could have been more polite and reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192/35 "2009-06-15T14:01:25Z")
> [@jakesteele](#): > > In America if two white guys beat up a black guy for any reason, it is immediately labeled ‘a racially motivated hate crime’. If two black guys beat up a white guy for any reason, it is labeled ‘a random act of senseless violence’. No, if two white guys beat up a black guy and yell “nigger” at him it’s labeled a ‘racially motivated hate crime’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oz-dopers-what-is-the-straight-dope-on-recent-racist-attacks/499192.md?page=1)