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Australia paper defends Serena Williams cartoon despite outrage

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32 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Yes because everybody wants to be that "quota guy" that couldn't get the job otherwise. The worst example of this are the women with no clue they're trying to forcibly push into CEO positions to get "gender balance". Disasters.

 

Equal opportunities in education should be enough. Everybody needs to make their own merit from there, no freebies just because you happen to be in a minority.

This becomes extremely difficult when you live in Idaho where there are towns where there are no blacks.  I used to live in Spokane WA and there were few black people.  The only ones I knew were the mayor and his granddaughter.  His granddaughter worked for me. 

 

However there are laws in the USA that seek to redress the wrongs of the Jim Crow era.  As a child I remember separate drinking fountains and transportation waiting areas let alone the problems during WWII.  So laws were written for America.  Not other countries.  But the media influence of America is so pervasive that the idea spread.  I don't care what they do in Australia.  However I don't think I am average.  Many Americans and others do care when there are racist images satirized in the media.  

 

The same things that are OK in Thailand like blackface and that toothpaste or the lawn jockeys would not fly in the US.  Does that make Thailand racist?  In America?  Yes.  In Thailand? No. 

 

The world/America thinks Australia is racist and they are correct.   Australia thinks Australia is not racists and they are correct.   

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  • Blacks are not a protected species. The many caricatures of Trump and other white people passes unremarked. He drew her as an ugly black woman having a tantrum. That is exactly what she was.

  • Personally Ihink the cartoon was hilarious and was the caricature of what we saw on the court. Williams was a disgrace to her sport and tried to turn her defeat and tantrums in to a woman thing.

  • She turned and made the whole incident about women eqaulity and sexsime issu and branded the umpire as a lier and a thief, and this is exactly how she was depicted in the cartoon... 

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25 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

This becomes extremely difficult when you live in Idaho where there are towns where there are no blacks.  I used to live in Spokane WA and there were few black people.  The only ones I knew were the mayor and his granddaughter.  His granddaughter worked for me.  

 

However there are laws in the USA that seek to redress the wrongs of the Jim Crow era.  As a child I remember separate drinking fountains and transportation waiting areas let alone the problems during WWII.  So laws were written for America.  Not other countries.  But the media influence of America is so pervasive that the idea spread.  I don't care what they do in Australia.  However I don't think I am average.  Many Americans and others do care when there are racist images satirized in the media.   



 

The same things that are OK in Thailand like blackface and that toothpaste or the lawn jockeys would not fly in the US.  Does that make Thailand racist?  In America?  Yes.  In Thailand? No. 



 

The world/America thinks Australia is racist and they are correct.   Australia thinks Australia is not racists and they are correct.   



I would imagine Australia and the world are not too concerned about this and have been able to move on. America (and you in particular), are stuck in a PC-hell timeloop and can never seem to let go of their faux-outrage. 

 

And I strongly disagree about the statement "world thinks Australia is racist and they are correct." Most of the world is an actual racist place and would wonder what you are going on about. I don't agree with it, but ask any Thai, or Asian for that matter, and they will matter-of-factly give you the hierarchy of humans based on colour. If you want to fight real racism, maybe better to spend your time educating the almost 3 billion Asian people that have this thinking ingrained into their culture.

1 minute ago, brucec64 said:

I would imagine Australia and the world are not too concerned about this and have been able to move on. America (and you in particular), are stuck in a PC-hell timeloop and can never seem to let go of their faux-outrage. 

 

And I strongly disagree about the statement "world thinks Australia is racist and they are correct." Most of the world is an actual racist place and would wonder what you are going on about. I don't agree with it, but ask any Thai, or Asian for that matter, and they will matter-of-fact give you the hierarchy of humans based on colour. If you want to fight real racism, maybe better to spend your time educating the almost 3 billion people that have this thinking ingrained into their culture.

Like I said I really don't care about education in Australia but I didn't think 3 billion people lived there. 

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3 minutes ago, brucec64 said:

...ask any Thai, or Asian for that matter, and they will matter-of-fact give you the hierarchy of humans based on colour. If you want to fight real racism, maybe better to spend your time educating the almost 3 billion people that have this thinking ingrained into their culture.

Education can only mask the primitive herd animal instincts built into our simian DNA remnants. There's an inner racist in all of us. Some are in denial, some cherish it. My take is keep it in your head and at least try to not kill everything that doesn't look like yourself.

19 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Education can only mask the primitive herd animal instincts built into our simian DNA remnants. There's an inner racist in all of us. Some are in denial, some cherish it. My take is keep it in your head and at least try to not kill everything that doesn't look like yourself.

Wow, that's a whole new education - science area.  I believe that was pretty much disproved in Germany after WWII.  Have you told anyone that the Third Reich is coming back? 

11 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Wow, that's a whole new education - science area.  I believe that was pretty much disproved in Germany after WWII.  Have you told anyone that the Third Reich is coming back? 

It never left.Never will.

13 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Wow, that's a whole new education - science area.  I believe that was pretty much disproved in Germany after WWII.  Have you told anyone that the Third Reich is coming back? 

No need, these guys must be the offspring of Mengele https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwin-eternity/201306/human-herding-how-people-are-guppies

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On 9/12/2018 at 2:24 AM, PremiumLane said:

so you an't heard of historical context then and I see you got some buzzwords in too, top marks

The historical context of her history of abuse and threatening behaviour?

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