LWTK - Is Australia a racist country?

[Dawn Keeballs]

Pretty simple, do you think we're a racist nation? Why/Why not?

[lee]

yes

i don't see it as an aweful thing though, everyone needs to be made fun of every once in a while, helps you TOUGHEN UP A BIT.

[Elise]

we are racist, sexist and homophobes. I think we're doing pretty well hey

[The Saint]

Hell yes.

It's good for Australia, makes little brown people think twice before coming over here and getting comfortable.

[perdition]

i think every country has the potential to be racist, and i would say australia like any other country has its share of red necks, but if australia is becoming more racist , then SOME of blame has to be pointed at the piss-poor behaviour and attitudes either directed at australia or australians by SOME immigrants

[digz]

i think people don't understand aussie humour, the old art of taking the piss
or maybe not

[Dawn Keeballs]

i think every country has the potential to be racist, and i would say australia like any other country has its share of red necks, but if australia is becoming more racist , then SOME of blame has to be pointed at the piss-poor behaviour and attitudes either directed at australia or australians by SOME immigrants

So migrants make us racist?

Do you expect them to drop/defer their values and attitudes when they come over here?

[Desmo]

then SOME of blame has to be pointed at the piss-poor behaviour and attitudes either directed at australia or australians by SOME immigrants

And the "Original land owners". I never considered myself racist before, and now I question if I am. I don't hate aboriginals, I don't hate black people.
I hate Coons, the majority that I have met just happen to have been black and aboriginal.

[digz]

no not drop/defer but accept that we as Australians don't need to be told what to believe or how to live in our own country. Also, that the way they act in their own home country may not be the correct or accepted way to act in Australia


(i realise saying "in our own country" might be laughed at because it is not our country, unless your an Aboriginal)

[jules_1972]

Hell yes.

It's good for Australia, makes little brown people think twice before coming over here and getting comfortable.

Little brown people???

[The Saint]

Told by who, digz?

[Desmo]

Yeah, your countrymen.

[THE GODFATHER]

Yep. Racists. Bloody Aussies! Well I am anyway! Except not to Mr M. (you are one funny wog!)

[Lord Farquaad]

Yes. But so are most, if not all, other countries.

[Twinks]

We are racist, towards Australians.
I think white Australians are the most discriminated against group in this county.

If we call someone a racist slur we get in trouble but they can call us whatever they like. They can have Muslim schools and aboriginal schools but if we wanted an Australians only school it wouldn't be on. Then the fact that you can get off the boat as a 'refugee' and get paid almost double per week than our pensioners get that have been paying tax their whole lives. Not to mention the Centrelink benefits people of colour get over white Australians.
The list goes on, and on...

[digz]

told by people who migrate here and generally believe we(anglo saxons or caucasians) don't deserve to live here

[The Saint]

They can have Muslim schools and aboriginal schools but if we wanted an Australians only school it wouldn't be on.

You've got to put "White" immediately before "Australians" on the sign Twinks, otherwise they get you on a technicality.

[Desmo]

told by people who migrate here and generally believe we(anglo saxons or caucasians) don't deserve to live here

Well they can just hop back on their boats and go home then, can't they.

[digz]

we need you in a submarine off ashmore reef desmo hahaha

its all well and good to say "they just hop back on their boats and go home" but as soon as they reach Australian shores they aren't leaving no matter how hard you cry foul

[The Saint]

told by people who migrate here and generally believe we(anglo saxons or caucasians) don't deserve to live here

But they're Australians. Don't they have the same rights as other Australians to tell you what to believe or how to live in your own country?