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Australians divided over "racist" t-shirts on sale
steveh31
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http://mashable.com/2014/10/13/racist-singlet-woolworths-australia/
Woolworths has removed from sale t-shirts bearing the Australian flag with underneath "If you don't love it leave".
Some people have said the t-shirts are racist others have said that people should be able to express their love of Australia.
Woolies bowed down to pressure from campaigners to find pro Aussies berating them for removing them.
Woolworths has removed from sale t-shirts bearing the Australian flag with underneath "If you don't love it leave".
Some people have said the t-shirts are racist others have said that people should be able to express their love of Australia.
Woolies bowed down to pressure from campaigners to find pro Aussies berating them for removing them.
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Eh? The article says it was only two Woolworths displaying the shirt, and that they were sent to the stores by mistake.
"Woolworths said the two stores were indadvertedly [sic] selling the singlet and it was "totally unacceptable."
Stupid and childish, yes; racist, no.
It's needlessly aggressive, but not racist.
That's how I feel about Planet Earth.
The sort of moron who thinks their definition of loving their country is right(wing)
I must be missing something.
Isn't it the case that like us, Australia has had citizens going on jihad. This tee shirt demands loyalty to the coumtry you live in or else move elsewhere. We could do with that attitide here.
Bollocks. My loyalty is to my family and my friends, everything else can go hang.
Frankly, my "I mean it so much I'm going to wear it on a t-shirt" days ended when I was 10. But if you think that a cheap, nasty t-shirt sold by Woolies will change the potential jihadists' minds, you go ahead.
Not something I'd personally choose to wear, but I don't class it as offensive.
Not racist, but you suspect they won't be splitting the atom anytime soon either.
If it had been spotted being worn by an aboriginal Australian would the same idiots be calling it racist?
I think it's far more racist to make the assumption that it was directed at any particular race. You've got to have some very strange ideas about who belongs and likes being Australian to make that kind of assumption.
I agree. I think it's a perfectly appropriate statement.
Would it sit more comfortably with you if said tee shirt said ' Welcome to Australia. We don't mind if you hate us. We ARE a teensy bit puzzled why you'd wish to live/settle here if that's the case though.' ?
I wouldn't be able to read it because the point size would be too small.
I suspect that people who confuse civic nationalism with ultra nationalism won't be splitting the atom anytime soon either.
All nationalism is a bit silly. I get why governments and media encourage it though.