Oz dopers , what is the straight dope on (recent racist attacks)?

[Gary_Robson]

@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.

[Aspidistra]

What, we’re not allowed to whoosh in IMHO any more?

[Indian]

@Rico

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Revised title to better reflect topic of thread.

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Czarcasm,Rico… Thanx.

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

@Aspidistra

What, we’re not allowed to whoosh in IMHO any more?

Wooshs are racist!

[Contrapuntal]

@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.

[bathsheba]

Mine was a whoosh. I’m Australian and it was in response to Weedy’s comment.

[Isamu]

@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.

[Gary_Robson]

@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.

[bathsheba]

In future, I’ll make my wooshes less wooshey.

[Aspidistra]

well I definitely felt it ruffle my hair

[Contrapuntal]

@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.

[bathsheba]

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.

[jakesteele]

@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 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’.

[Gary_Robson]

@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.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@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’.