sooo...

HCjnr should shut up and we should take no notice of what people say about us overseas especialy "the yanks"...unless they agree with uslike Whoopi ..then they're ok....

and bugger the ANZACs eh? what did they ever do for us? why did they even bother to fight racism? and people in black face are not people in black face, isn't that obvious?.. and why have we even got an ANZAC day? I mean...it's all over the top PC wowserism....

ok yeah, great logic. LOL

I am interested on what others deem as racist as opposed to Aussie humour.

Should we be imposing some regulation on racist material on our screens?

I have stated I didn't consider the Hey Hey skit as overtly racist but as I think the issue through, and consider what others have been putting, I find myself hardening my attitude a little. Especially in light of the Kahmal cartoon.

Here is something I do consider racist, it was on primetime television and watched by many of our youth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnnAWxvLPQc&feature=related

Would I like a firmer stand taken on this sort of humour? Probably.

Is there anyone here going to defend Mr Newman's behaviour as not racist but just good old Aussie humour?

I think it says something about a particular networks tolerance levels for this sort of stuff.

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Thank You!

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Aboriginals are using white face painting is that perhaps racism or is it only if white people use dark face painting?
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Let’s be real, you can call it racism or whatever but in the end it was merely a show for entertainment.
Here we have legislators trying to deal with Faulty Towers kind of shows, even so no offence was previous held to exist instead of having legislators deal with criminal conduct and other more important issues.
Decades ago, when I was in management, I had a rule no worker was to use nicknames, swear words, etc. To do so would be dismissal instantly. So one worker tried me out and was sacked on the sport. And, for what it may be worth, his Union accepted this. Long before sexual harassment, etc, was in place I used to practice this among the workforce and successfully that if they wanted a job they show respect to other workers.
This I view is the kind of conduct to pursue but to try to make out racism because some fun is poked surely is going overboard.
We are getting to be a society where bashings is flourishing because we are to over sensitive on the wrong things and by this ignore to address the real issues.
In my view the skit was not specifically indicating racism but merely was to whatever any person perceived from it.
For example, when my wife and I watch a show she has often a different interpretation of it then I have because our backgrounds are so starkly different that certain terms and slangs I am used to hear and understand have no meaning to her.
Technical terms are meaning less to her and so that is so to say the prove in the pudding that it is all to perception.
Those who had a perception of racism should blame themselves for perceiving it as such and not the skit!