Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 9236427)

Well guys i've been here 3 and a half years now and today i got my first nasty racist comment. Not bad eh!

Apparently us immigrants think we can come to australia and take over the place. So there ya go.

Not sure what he meant really, apart from his prime minister is welsh and his head of state is English. :rofl:

Originally Posted by bcworld (Post 9238031)

Not racist obviously, but I got the 'comin here...takin our jobs' treatment within the first couple of months I think. Wouldn't be so bad but I was actually sitting around doing bugger all work at the time!

I also got labelled 'unaustralian' (not in a jovial sense btw for the apologists) on my very first Australia Day for failing to take part in a cane toad massacre.

This is what you get for hanging out in the Redlandshire though! :D

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 9238044)

:frown: what's wrong the redneck Redlands? :eek:

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 9238046)

You need to ask? You've integrated hon ;)

Originally Posted by steve_kelly_and_boys (Post 9236437)

well yesterday a fella nearly hit my little boy in our small little close

i was up the road but my wife saw it and had a go at him for driving like an idiot

he then tells her to fook off back to dandenong

i had to have a double take as i thought he had said back to England

dandenong....... we have the most common cockney accents going

actually gave me a giggle that

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 9237798)

And how is this racist?

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 9238110)

Well the fact he brought race into the conversation means to me that it is a racist comment, "you immigrants think you can come here and take over, and i feel sorry for you having english parents" ticks the boxes for racism as far as i'm concerned.

Oh and just for the record it wasn't an aborigine who i had the discussion with either. He was white, so as far as i'm concerned he was also having a dig at his forefathers. Prick!

:D

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 9238112)

The guy is a prick no doubt but I cannot see anything racist in what he has said

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 9238044)

:frown: what's wrong the redneck Redlands? :eek:

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 9238116)

Oh well, i figured if someone makes what was obviously meant as a derogatory comment about my race it would go down on the racist list.

Anyway, my dog shit on his lawn this morning so i reckon its 1-1

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 9238110)

Well the fact he brought race into the conversation means to me that it is a racist comment, "you immigrants think you can come here and take over, and i feel sorry for you having english parents" ticks the boxes for racism as far as i'm concerned.

Oh and just for the record it wasn't an aborigine who i had the discussion with either. He was white, so as far as i'm concerned he was also having a dig at his forefathers. Prick!

:D

Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 9238160)

Ahh well you didn't mention the English parents bit (not that makes much difference as it's not racist) and 'immigrant' isn't racist either otherwise everyone on every migrant forum would be guilty of it.

Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 9238166)

Oh well i'll just shut up then. so does my dog shitting on his lawn make it 1 nil to me now that you have all decided he's not a racist?

:D

Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 9238141)

I'm assuming that you are British? If so, Britons are a nationality not a race. The comment made to you could, at a stretch, be called xenophobic or bigoted, but not racist

Originally Posted by the troubadour (Post 9238056)

More than likely this fellows world view streched no further than the nong.