Who are "they"??

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I was reading through some recent news this morning and stumbled upon the story involving the Australian cricket board's Twitter account and a certain picture mentioning Monty Panesar.

According to the story there had been uproar because some offence was caused - now I don't want to get into whether the story has any merit or not but it started me thinking about who these people are that seem to be constantly being offended and moreover how they actually get their views out in the media???

This was just one example and there are seemingly dozens every day - I mean do some people just sit sifting through Facebook/Twitter/online news just waiting to be offended?? And even then, how do these people get their outrage out into the public domain?

I'm sure there are genuine cases but there seem to be a lot more now that a few years ago!?!?
 
They all do look like Monty Panesar though, it's not offensive. Their teletubbies outfits are the only dubious thing about that picture.
 
Uh, what? Are Sikh men not allowed to wear fancy dress? It seems entirely normal for people to go to Cricket games dressed up.

This seems utterly retarded.
 
Cosimo said:
Here is the story, it's not something you can just brush off:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cr...se-after-Monty-Panesar-Teletubbies-tweet.html

This is a "genuine" case and people have rightly complained. OP and I must be living on different planets as I don't dozens of examples of complaining every day.
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I'm not trying to "brush it off" but this one in particular was, in my opinion, meant to be a joke and yet "people" still complained. My question stands, who can be bothered to go to the trouble to complain about something not aimed at them! (Assuming of course it wasn't Panesar that did the complaining!)
 
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scorza said:
Tbh Australians are pretty racist and deserve to be mocked for being so.
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No doubt. My brother has lived there for several years and says it's endemic of the general aussie population. As well as xenophobia. The shocking thing being they don't even realise they're being so racist or xenophobic. Or they simply don't care and fob it off as "only a bit of banter".
 
StevieP said:
I'm not trying to "brush it off" but this one in particular was, in my opinion, meant to be a joke and yet "people" still complained.
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What difference does it make that it was a joke? Racists jokes are still bad.

(And, yes, it was racist)
 
Nothing even remotely racist about that tweet. Just the fact that the guy is brown, so it must be racist. If it was a pic of someone who looked like one of the white cricketers in a funny outfit no one would have cared. Sad.

No doubt the people who complained are regulars on points of view.
 
Skeeter said:
Uh, what? Are Sikh men not allowed to wear fancy dress? It seems entirely normal for people to go to Cricket games dressed up.

This seems utterly retarded.
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Those blokes weren't at the ground. The guys behind the Cricket Australia twitter account actually had to search for the picture to make a "witty" comment about Panesar. And you have to consider that an Australian announcer recently put on an Indian accent when announcing Panesar's name at a warm-up match.
 
Mark A said:
Nothing even remotely racist about that tweet. Just the fact that the guy is brown, so it must be racist. If it was a pic of someone who looked like one of the white cricketers in a funny outfit no one would have cared. Sad.
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That's about the truth of it.
 
Mark A said:
Nothing even remotely racist about that tweet. Just the fact that the guy is brown, so it must be racist. If it was a pic of someone who looked like one of the white cricketers in a funny outfit no one would have cared. Sad.
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Astonishingly the history of race relations is actually relevant to, er, race relations. There is not a history of racistly dismissing white people because they "all look alike"; there is a history racistly dismissing asian people because they "all look alike".
 
Mr Jack said:
Astonishingly the history of race relations is actually relevant to, er, race relations. There is not a history of racistly dismissing white people because they "all look alike"; there is a history racistly dismissing asian people because they "all look alike".
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It's ironic that for all the bleating about racism the guys in the photo are described as Monty look-a-likes in some of the articles.
 
V F said:
You've just described a lot of the UK.
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Not on the same scale tbh. I've heard Australians described as the most comfortably racist people on the planet i.e. not the most racists, just that they're comfortable being racists. People in the UK/USA will us the P and N words mainly to shock and offend, but Aussies still use racist words in everyday conversation like it was the 1970s.
 
Mark A said:
Nothing even remotely racist about that tweet. Just the fact that the guy is brown, so it must be racist. If it was a pic of someone who looked like one of the white cricketers in a funny outfit no one would have cared. Sad.
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^Yep.

If it had been about a Scottish person with a pic of people in kilts and tarten hats nobody would have said a thing, and if they did they would have been ignored.
 
Monty's defining features are a beard, brown skin, and a turban. They all look like him. Just like anyone that wears a olive green beret with a star on it and has slightly olive skin they'd look like che guevara. It's not racist.
 
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