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Seeking racist Australia.(racial discrimination)
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March 01, 2006 |
Devine, Frank |
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IS "PISS OFF, WOG" a racist declaration or a targeted insult? Only a wuss would think of answering "both". It was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald as the form of dismissal used by a young--dare I say it?--Australian woman, a particular individual, to turn away a, well, Lebanese Muslim man who had propositioned her unattractively on Sydney's Cronulla beach. The clarity of her response is a refreshing contrast to the mist of politically correct double-talk that blurred the realities of beach-side violence in Sydney in December.
While disinclined to challenge the Oxford Dictionary's definition of wog as "a vulgarly offensive expression for a foreigner, ...
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