Dear ALTRAV,

Before commenting on any matter you need to get the
facts right and not fall for myths. The following
link explains:

http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/busting-myths-about-aboriginal-culture-in-australia

Myth 19 and Myth 20 - explain further.

Foxy, am I to believe you disagree with most or all of these points on your link? Why? They may not ALL be completely true because the list is presented as an overview and a generalisation, implying they are ALL of this elk. We both know this is simply not true. My submission is aimed at the ones abusing the system. I don't know WHO they are but I know they exist, and so I generalise to make the point. Remember Foxy it wasn't me who first spoke up against the wannabees, it was an aboriginal Elder. So before anyone starts unpacking their pitchforks and fire starters, you'd better round up the Elders first.
Foxy, I'm not the bad guy here. I will always speak up where I see an injustice being perpetrated. I have been an active submitter to 'The Ombudsman' if I believed there was injustice or a law or an officer which compromised people. So it is that I am not against any particular race or nationality only those who abuse the system. Whoever they are.

Dear ALTRAV,

Glad to hear that you're not against any particular
race or group of people. However we need to be
mindful of the many terms which may give a
different impression. For example referring to Australian
Indigenous people as "Abos" or to African Americans as
"ni**ers" or Italians as "Dagos" or migrants as "wogs"
and so on. These outmoded words are no longer acceptable
to most people.

Foxy: These outmoded words are no longer acceptable to most people.

No only to the Politically Correct, Lefties who want to stuff everything by pretending to be offended by anything. They spend their time thinking up new things to be offended by. Even some words that we had to use because the word they replaced was offensive are now offensive because some PCDH thinks "Someone MIGHT be offended." Grrrr....

Ah yes, well even blind Freddy would be happy to see that !
That old saying is now no PC !

Foxy "Wog" is not necessarily disrespectful.

Unfortunately when I went cruising I packed most of my favourite things into 2 ports. Fortunately only one would fit in the space I allocated, so was left with my folks. The other sailed over 40,000 nautical miles, survived 4 cyclones, & some pretty rough crossings in the next 6 years, before I opened it again.

All that damp had turned those treasured possessions into a solid block of paper mache. In that block was one of my favourite books, "Horrie the Wog Dog", by Roland Perry. You probably know it.

It is the story of Ozzie outfit sent to Greece after the desert campaign, on a fools errand gesture. With stuff all heavy equipment & no air support they could do nothing but stage a fighting withdrawal from north to south of Greece.

Horrie was an Egyptian terrier, hence the "WOG" they took with them. His ability to hear the stuka dive bombers long before human ears, & thus give more time for the troops to take cover saved many lives.

I gained the impression that those Ozzies considered the Greeks to be wogs, but this was not meant in any derogatory way. In fact a real affection for the Greeks comes through in the book.

I have seen some trying to rename the book Horrie the War Dog. This totally disgusting politically correct garbage is what we have to wipe out, not use of words like wog.