Joe Lynn Turnip said:
You mean the three Indian and one Lebanese medical students that wore blackface?
Yes we were unique in our mysoginy - so unique in fact that we were the second country in the world to unconditionally give women the vote. How are some non-western countries going with their treatment of women & gays right now in 2012 by the way?
Unbelievable drunk driving back slapping stories? Oh no national shame...we should bring in a law or something ..oh wait we did..among the first and the toughest in the world no less...
... I know this is the Race, Politics & Religion section but god I hate Carlton......hate them....hate their guts!
... anyway, um, thanks for the ethnic profiling Joe. I’ll pass the word on if you can explain its significance.
But why the level of emotion? What is it exactly about Harry Connick’s actions that warrant him and people like him to *smile off* as LTRTR-GOAL! and perhaps you would have it? He was standing up – a lone individual without any visible support against the entire studio audience, against the tide, and as he saw it ‘calling a spade a spade’. Whether you agree or disagree with his view he was none the less expressing the very quality LTRTR-GOAL! laments as a great australian quality now lost to the past. He should have held his tongue rather than rock the boat on national tv, is that it?
Australian women got to vote years ago while women in other countries are still being treated appallingly - true - but again what’s your point?.... is it that Australian women should consider themselves lucky? If not what’s with the comparison?
Lots of countries still treat gays poorly - but again what’s that got to do with the price of fish in Australia? Are you implying gays here should be grateful for the bashings and general homophobic hysteria of the past because look what’s happening to gays elsewhere in the world? Geez, joe, you remind me of my mum – “finish yesterday's veggies, glantone, people are starving in Africa yer know."
I’d be surprised if our indigenous cousins, migrants, women, gays and drunk driving victims lament about aussie society in the good old days, when a you could call an abo and abo, an Iti a wog, women knew their place and a man could go out and get a skin full and roll the car and still call it a bloody good weekend.
The fact that we now have tough road laws, gay rights, better women’s rights and are generally a more tolerant and respectful society shows we are maturing as a nation. What’s the problem with that? Reckon Australia is a better country now than in the past.
Guess we agree on Frank Ifield.
