racist

PossibleUnderscore Ha!
Jan 7, 2010

dontcry Hey! That color job doesn't come cheap, pal! Jan 7, 2010

Jubjub A blatant case of brunettism! Jan 7, 2010

PossibleUnderscore I was passing a toy store the other day and there were two types of barbies on display. They were identical, except one had blond hair, the other had brown. The price was also a little different, the blond one costing ten dollars more than her counterpart. Jan 7, 2010

seanahan Bilby, is it the job of the Supreme Court to facilitate acknowledgment of racism? Dec 30, 2009

Jubjub gangerh, I'm all about breed and chese and good ale.

EDIT: Oops-- That came out the wrong way. I was just commenting on the meaning of jub, where breed is used as ME word for bread. Dec 21, 2009

bilby The victim's family cares if the murderer is deemed racist. They feel it would allow acknowledgement among the wider community that Australia does have a race problem, particularly vis-a-vis new immigrant communities. Until there is such an acknowledgement politicians are unlikely to take action as no Premier or Mayor wants to be the first to admit that his/her patch has gone bad, or was indeed rotten all along. Dec 21, 2009

gangerh Racist, surely, 'jub. Dec 21, 2009

Jubjub What's the word for someone who really is pro-races? Like Foot races, car races, bike races, and wheel-barrow races? Dec 21, 2009

seanahan Many people believe that a hate crime is worse than a crime, and I assume the laws in this case are such. The point is, is murder for racism worse that murder for fun? Dec 21, 2009

eclepticearth More on this sad tale:"Justice Curtain said that Rintoull had used ''derogatory and insulting language'' before attacking Mr Gony but ''to say this killing was racially motivated is to deny a complex set of factors''.

She said Rintoull had phoned 000 three days earlier to report being chased by about 20 Sudanese men, some carrying knives, after trying to give a sandwich to a homeless African boy.

Justice Curtain said such a gesture was not consistent with his attack on Mr Gony being racially motivated."

Humanoids are so weird. Dec 21, 2009

eclepticearth It is not a crime to be a racist, so why would a judge be deciding if Clinton Rintoull is or is not a racist. The media quote is garbled, perhaps. There is a difference, legally, between simple assault and a hate crime. Perhaps the judge had decided that this assault did not meet the legal criterion to be a hate crime, although the accused man clearly expressed racist viewpoints. But that is not the same thing. We know little else about the attack from this short report. Dec 21, 2009

seanahan My question is, who cares if he was racist? He should go to jail, both as punishment for his crime, and as a deterrent to others who might commit similar crimes. It's not illegal to hate an entire race, but it is illegal to attack them. Dec 20, 2009

reesetee *speechless* Dec 19, 2009

uselessness The private reaction, on the other hand—
well, it's about the same. Dec 19, 2009

bilby That's generally the public reaction here. Dec 19, 2009

madmouth JEsus


I mean, seriously--JEsus CHRIST

*reason fails, mind implodes, Satan's kingdom upon the earth &c.* Dec 19, 2009

bilby "A man who announced he was going to 'kill the blacks' shortly before bashing a Sudanese teenager with a metal pole and leaving him to die in the street was not racist, a Supreme Court judge has found.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain yesterday sentenced Clinton Rintoull, 24, to 20 years' jail for his 'ferocious and brutal attack' on Liep Gony, 19, who was found unconscious and bleeding profusely from the head by a passerby about 10.40pm on September 26, 2007.
Shortly before the attack, Rintoull had spray painted 'f--- da niggers' on the wall of his rented Noble Park house, and a neighbour walking his dog heard him say: 'These blacks are turning this place into the Bronx. I'm going to take my town back. I'm looking to kill the blacks.'"
- Kate Hagan, Murder was 'not racist': judge, theage.com.au, 19 Dec 2009. Dec 19, 2009