by Sass » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:40 am
....................Fourteen families, they moving in,
But neighbour's patience wearing thin.
Finally, British guy moves away.
Now I buy his house, then I say,
'Find more immigrants for house to rent.'
And in the yard I put a tent.
Everything is very good,
And soon we own the neighbourhood.
We have hobby, it's called breeding.
Welfare pay for baby feeding.................
And you equate this! with a kiwi/Irishman trying to blow up a bus!!!
EXCUSE ME??
I concede that if Irish/'Paki'/Blonde jokes do offend those who find them offensive, then that is the reaction, that is how they genuinely feel. Why should we then categorize that as not offensive/not racist? Who the hell are 'we' to judge what is offensive? Because it doesn't offend us?
The kiwi pronunciation of 6 as sex is something I find inoffensive and amusing. It suddenly occurred to me that you may not, ciderman. So I did something about it. You were not offended. OK. Fine.
Having said all that, I am stunned that ANYONE would not see the that the wording of this so-called 'poem' is aimed at one race in the most derogatory manner. I'm bloody amazed! Try the damned thing on for size; see how you'd feel. (Forget it. DON'T' even attempt to tell me that if this was leveled at you and yours it would not bother you, because I won't believe you.) Read again just the part that I have quoted. Yea God's!! What is the matter with us? Are we really so blind?
Or could it be that "if it's not a problem for me, then it's not a problem". What a thoroughly self-serving attitude; AND a very prevalent one.
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Three years ago when this occurred on on 'my' site, I took on board the opinion of H that it was not racist. I approached a member of the Afghan community who owns a small afghan supermarket. This man had tears in his eyes. Then he asked me to 'inspect' !! his supermarket! He wanted to show me how hard he and his two sons had worked to support themselves in this Australian community. We then sat and talked.
He told me that when he came here as a refugee he was looked on as a blight (my word; it's accurate), on the community. He was accused of being a 'welfare bludger'. He then got a job washing dishes; his sons collected supermarket trolleys in the carparks of those supermarkets. And they saved hard. During this time they were accused of taking jobs off Australians.
He told me that he still gets abused for having the supermarket; "profiting" from Australians.
I actually had to stop this dear, gentle, and hardworking man from desperately trying to convince me that he and his family were hard workers; were decent members of society. I put my hand on his arm to tell him I already knew that.
That is when this proud Afghan put his head in his hands and sobbed. Great racking sobs. To do this in front of a woman is a crushing humiliation for an Afghan male. THAT is how distraught he was.
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I accept that this rubbish was put on the forum with no intended malice.
I will NEVER accept that this is anything but a vile racist shot, designed to incite hatred, by innocuously peddling it as 'poetry'.
For the love of all that is decent; walk in their shoes; feel the way they feel when they have this 'poetry' written about them.
Role play it. TRY to think how you would feel.