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Topic: Kramer's "racist" rant
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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?"

Posts: 4143
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 11-24-2006 11:06 PM
quote: Brad Miller I do not condone what Michael said on stage, but a "tremendous wound"??? Oh please.
No, it's true. There were absolutely no more problems and prejudices between "black" and "white" people anymore before Michael Kramer, I mean, Cosmo Richards, uh... anyway, before he went on stage and destroyed it all! He single-handedly turned the clock back to almost before the Civil War. If he had been on stage 5 minutes longer, then "black" people would have become slaves again.
You have to be really careful what you say. For instance, in future, sports commentators can not use the words "offense" and "defense" anymore because "Mexican" people will be offended by the word "fence". That means there will be no more "fencing" on TV either. It will from now on be called "messing around with a long pointy metal rod".
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John Wilson
Film God

Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-29-2006 11:34 AM
Political correctness - Blechhh!
More silliness:
Link to news.com.au
Don't call us Poms, say Poms
By Heath Aston
November 30, 2006 01:00am Article from: The Daily Telegraph
It is the Don Bradman of whinges.
A group of thin-skinned English expats wants the word Pom banned, claiming it is a racial slur on a par with the most appalling insults.
British People Against Racial Discrimination has gone to the Advertising Standards Board in an attempt to derail the latest Tooheys campaign which mocks the warm-beer-drinking Brits.
The ads claim Tooheys' supercold brand is "cold enough to scare a Pom".
The Aussie brewer will fight the complaint, saying BPARDs gripe is as wide of the mark as Steve Harmison's first ball in the Ashes series.
"The Oxford Dictionary classes Pom as being derogatory just like wog, wop, dink, dago, coon and abo, it's every bit as bad as the term nigger," BPARD spokesman David Thomason said yesterday.
BPARD, which has a committee of 14 and branches in Perth and Melbourne, does not want Pom banned from general usage but Mr Thomason believes there is an agenda in the media to take the insult to new heights.
BPARD has some well-heeled backing from the mother country in the form of the notoriously stuffy English and Wales Cricket Board.
ECB chief executive David Collier said in a letter dated October 10: "The ECB continues with our position that we would prefer the terminology not be used".
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission disagrees however, saying it is only the descriptive language used in tandem with Pom that carries offence.
"The prospect of the use of the word 'Pom' itself inciting hatred against a group appears more remote than the use of words used to describe other racial groups," commission spokesman Paul Oliver said.
The stink is unlikely to deter Australian cricket fans from roasting their English rivals when the second Test begins in Adelaide tomorrow.
But even that battle is skewed against the Poms, according to Mr Thomason.
"These songs that the Aussie supporters sing talk about we can't get near you because of your smell, your body odour, your bad breath, your buck teeth, your whingeing, have you got some soap," he said.
"The worst you hear from the Barmy Army is that Aussies are sheep shaggers and you all live in a penal colony."
The world needs to get a life.
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