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I think you might be confusing banter with slander.OEP wrote:You must be brain dead and I dare say properly a dud root. Don't get offended I'm being light hearted and I do have the right to free speech, even if it's at your expense...right?
No more so than you referring to people as red necks, bigots, racists and misogynists simply because they have a different point of view on a situation(s) to you.pietillidie wrote:I think you might be confusing banter with slander.OEP wrote:You must be brain dead and I dare say properly a dud root. Don't get offended I'm being light hearted and I do have the right to free speech, even if it's at your expense...right?
In any case, in these lean times being called a dud root would be something to cheer!
) Roberts-Smith for my comments, they will ill considered and inappropriate. I hope I haven't offended him, or his family as that was not my intention and I hope I can move on from this and continue doing the job I love."
That's a good point, and I probably could have reiterated the 'gutless swine' label that I applied to the (now nine!) sponsors who have ended their association with the show in the article itself. However, I feel like I'd already dealt with that issue more generally in my previous piece on offensive humour, which does have a lot of parallels with this story. Here, however, I wanted to approach the 'war hero' paradigm itself and why it's perceived to be so important.pietillidie wrote:David, there's more than enough you can do from the middle; there's no need to mark blokes doing their jobs with the disgrace of Iraq and Afghanistan. It doesn't matter how you preface it, that will be the perception. That both wars are widely perceived as a disgrace and abject failure will hang around the necks of the right for a very long time yet; no need to go the extra mile and whack their heroes, too.
It's not about the military doing their job (as you've said); but it is about massively destructive BS wars supported by opportunistic politicians and companies playing the ignorant authoritarian mob on the right like a fiddle.
Also, give the right their symbols and icons; that sort of stuff is too ingrained in their psychology for them to give up. Target areas in which you can make progress such as the republic, which is a chance to develop new and more appropriate symbols.
The only issue of interest related to this incident is that companies have caved in to redneck pressure and chosen to support bigots, racists and misogynists rather than someone simply organising a formal apology and moving on. Why don't you spend more time hanging the support of bigotry and the mob threat to free speech and rights around the necks of the companies and the mob concerned?
Except I was actually referring to the bigots who called Called Yumi whatever her name a $%#$ %$#^ in a daily double of racism and misogyny which unfortunately wasn't lurking too far beneath the surface, as well as the whackos trying to inflict financial and other damages on the two concerned.OEP wrote:No more so than you referring to people as red necks, bigots, racists and misogynists simply because they have a different point of view on a situation(s) to you.pietillidie wrote:I think you might be confusing banter with slander.OEP wrote:You must be brain dead and I dare say properly a dud root. Don't get offended I'm being light hearted and I do have the right to free speech, even if it's at your expense...right?
In any case, in these lean times being called a dud root would be something to cheer!
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It's the student newspaper of Monash University's Clayton campus. Even though I've taken a year off, I've decided to keep writing for them in order to build up my portfolio and keep writing on a regular basis.think positive wrote:What is Lots Wife?
MOOMBA king and soccer star Harry Kewell has pulled out of an interview with The Circle over controversy surrounding host Yumi Stynes.
Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said this morning Kewell had not appeared at his scheduled interview with the beleaguered morning program because of comments Stynes made about Victoria Cross winner Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith.
