The locals in the Trobriand Islands, [PNG] refer to white people as dim dims. Perhaps if I knew the origin of the term, I could be insulted.

In the main street of Samarai Island PNG, once the center of administration for south east New Guinea, in 1975, the last time I was there stood a statue to some dead white man, & the plaque said, Fred Bolg, a man who dedicated his life to making New Guinea a descent place for a white man to live.

I wondered then how this was tolerated, & wonder today if it still stands.

I’ve heard ‘Coon’ is an abbreviated term for Raccoon, a name used in the US in the 1920’s and 30’s by some whites when referring to African-Americans. Probably was in derogatory terms but doesn’t mean we need to change the name of a brand of bloody cheese.

What’s next, how pathetic. The more we kowtow to the PC brigade the worse it’s going to get. Very sad.
Galen

Dear Galen,

Mate, I don't give a rat's arse how it was used overseas. I have given explicit examples of how it was and is an extremely racially loaded term here in Australia. Why on earth are you trying to downplay it?

I've used this example before but should Bert Newtown have said to Ali to stop being so PC when he wanted to know whether Newtown had called him a boy?

This was an American context but we all got it.

The word coon in an Australian context is very loaded and it needs to be dealt with on that basis.

I am fully supportive of the owners taking this decision.

Dear resident rent gouger,

SteeleRedux, I'm very glad I live in my world and not yours.

Do you really think, (and I think you do), the Aboriginal family of twenty stray relo's and ten kids living right next door to your house, need your protection?

You need to grow up. I make a bet here, your next door neighbours are not black.
You obviously fantasise incorrectly, blacks actually need you to defend them.
Out in the big world, the opposite is the reality.

Right at this moment, three smart arse hybrid lubras are suffering the pangs and slights of social media for spreading the plague around Queensland.
Just to demonstrate how confused these privileged and now persicuted bag snatchers from good homes are, the media, as a anarchistic mob, have jumped on their side to defend them against racism (SIC)!?

So let's analyse it. Bag snatching for an organised criminal group, is now preferable to spreading the plague around two or three States of Australia, desperately trying to contain the plague, than racist (sic) remarks.

Dan

I managed to buy the last pack of Coon cheese from the local Woolies t'other day. Apparently it had been flying off the shelves.

I plan on keeping the packaging to be bequeathed to my grandkids to remind them how utterly moronic this generation has become.

But why are we so reticent in addressing this rampant racism. There are dozens of people living in Oz with the surname Coon. Report them all to the Anti-Dis board - gaol is too good for them.

And their ancestors? Hundreds (thousands) of gravestones with that word (that vile word) openly displayed. How can we live (or die) in a world that allows that.

And why stop there? There's hundreds of people using the surname Blackman. Can concentration camps be too far away?

And what about Noosa Heads? We all know what a noose is used for, don't we?

All this twaddle about racism that might or might not exist is a huge turn off; it changes nothing; the same people will continue to think what they have always thought, and life will go on. Get over it.