As a test I asked two friends about Rahman's gripe that Delta Goodrem was 'stupid and racist'.

Their opinion was divided.

One said that "Delta is not stupid" whilst the other said "She is not racist."

she is not a white male so she can't be racist. Imagine Abbott had of been involved.

It is possible Pakistan's Imran Khan believes this matter is also Britain's fault.

She's neither racist or stupid imo, just has a healthy sense of humour, all this pc b/s is boring!

all this pc b/s is boring!
saussie,
That remark is just so uncanny for me as only this morning I was talking to an african chap who said that the religious warriors are hoping PC continues to rule the West for it is PC that affords them the opportunities to keep on going.

The word "Racist" doesn't mean hatred of another race, Leon Trotsky coined the word in his history of the Russian revolution to illustrate his point about how ignorance and adherence to tradition (Slavophilia) retarded the progress of the Russian people, how a lack of freedom under the governance of the church and the Germanic monarchy bred people with narrow minds and a limited capacity to exercise their own free will. Trotsky closes the paragraph with the observation that Marx had emphatically defeated the arguments in support of the old regimes and put to rest the protestation of those "Racists".

I found Freedman's reaction unsurprising. She's built her career on pandering to the idea that women are always the victims of male behaviour and has writtem reams and reams of fluff trying to defend the idea that women are not subject to the same standards of behaviour that apply to men and that women deserve special treatment in public and private life solely because of their gender.

I'm sure that if she was asked about her views on racism she'd express conventional "progressive" middle-class distaste, but because this is a woman being accused of being racist toward a man her zealotry is triggered and she has to try to defend the woman, resulting in this stupidly irrational rationalisation.

If Marcia Hines (a black woman), when she was a judge on one of these types of shows, had been subject to a similar type of action from a male, the egregious Miss Freedman would have been all over the offender like a rather virulent and irksome rash, telling us all what to think about it in no uncertain terms.

That's the trouble with having a knee that jerks uncontrollably, you never know when you're going to give yourself a kick up the clacker...

Well said antiseptic but I think we should all avail ourselves of this freedom. Complain about everything! I am a white male originally from the UK. My scope is endless as is just about everyone elses. Lets all keep on protesting, complain about every slight or even a slight deviation and then complain about the deviation itself!
I think it most important to complain about "racist" remarks that are not even racist then the offender will have to interminably defend himself/herself. Hey let's all victimise Mia Freedman and see how she likes it.

Mr Bowyer,

Are you having a lend of us ? A Pommy advocating that we should whinge about everything ?

When are you getting back on the plane ?

Cheers :)

Joe

Nothing like attacking a celebrity to garner some personal publicity from their name and status.

There are careers in race and racism.

People who are easily offended have no business being on the internet, much less on social media.
There is no offense of "Racism", in the hands of ideological leftists it's an anachronistic anti Slavic slur which has no place in a modern society and when used by a twit like Mia Freedman or any of the other MSM gadflys who've weighed in it's merely a catty Anti White insult or an attack word, misused and misunderstood as I've explained.
The test under law would be if the intent or the photo and of Ms Goodrem's comment was to incite serious racial hatred and clearly neither went anywhere near such sentiments, the costume was clearly a tribute to Seal by a fan, Delta wished them well, that is all.
There is no "Blackface" stereotype in Australian popular culture, it's an American trope, Seal himself is of mixed Nigerian and Brazilian ancestry and was raised in London, there is no logical reason why he would be offended even if a White boy in blackface fell to one knee in front him and began belting out "Mammy".