Some muppet at a university in Australia has come up with a survey that confirms a link between flying the Australian flag and racist tendencies. Funny, although he is an “aussie” I’ve never seen Mel Gibson with those shit stars on our flag, but anyway…
This is great newspaper / comment fodder. The sort of thing the Daily Mail specialises in. Print blaring nutty headline on populist drivel and sit back with your popcorn.
A taster of the story….
DRIVERS who fly Australian flags on their cars to celebrate Australia Day are “more racist” than people who do not, according to research from UWA.
University of Western Australia sociologist and anthropologist Professor Farida Fozdar and a team of assistants surveyed 513 people at the Australia Day fireworks on Perth’s Swan River foreshore last year to find out whether there was a link between car flag flying and racist attitudes, Perth Now reports.
Professor Fozdar said the team found that of the 102 people surveyed on the day who had attached flags to their cars for the national holiday, 43 per cent agreed with the statement that the now-abandoned “White Australia Policy” had “saved Australia from many problems experienced by other countries”.
Cue fantastic responses like this, proving once and for all that comedy is not dead…
“Professor Farida Fozdar” – surprise surprise, it’s a forigner [sic] who wants to say we are racist. If you’re not happy with us – GO HOME!!!
Take the effing caps lock off – nurchure it, don’t abuse it…
MY 5 YEAR AND 2 YEAR OLD GRAND SONS ARE WAVING THEIR FLAGS, THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT A RACIST IS. WE WILL NURCHURE THEM AND SHOW THEM GOOD VALUES AND TO RESPECT OTHERS. ITS FUNNY HOW THAT SOME ONE DEFENDS THEIR COUNTRY AND THEY ARE THE ONES CALLED RACISTS. IT IS A REQUIREMENT THAT WHEN YOU MIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA THAT YOU ADOPT ITS VALUES AND ABIDE BY ITS LAWS.
I’m a moron, and I don’t mind people knowing it…
Racist – you bet. A proud Australian – you bet. Sick and tired of the bludgers on the boats turning up here univited – you bet.
And one man cries about the flag itself…
The flag is only 3/4 ours anyway: WE NEED A NEW FLAG, we are not a British colony
Read them. It’s hilarious if you find muppets unable to control their emotions at the slightest provocation funny…. This newspaper article is brilliant in its conception, a perfect trap, a perfect vehicle to show the world what idiots you can be…. there are blatant wind-up merchants, unreconstructed lunatics, and plenty of people think it is so wrong to have a go at the “foreigners”, but bogans are a different matter…..
You don’t need an anthropologist to tell you there are loonys about.
