Current Events > Asian sisters try crossing street. Get threatened with knife and spit on in AU.

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https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3086768/you-chinese-virus-spreader-after-coronavirus-australia-has-anti

After a knife-wielding white woman spewing racial abuse attacked them in their own hometown at the end of March, it took weeks for the Vietnamese-Australian sisters Rosa and Sophie Do to once more feel comfortable crossing the street. The pair had been waiting to cross Petersham Road in the suburb of Marrickville when two white Australian teenagers launched into an unprovoked attack, calling them Asian whores, Asian dogs and Asian sluts. One threatened the sisters with a knife and tried to kick them before spitting into Rosas eye and face. Back then, spitting was worse than punching someone, Rosa said, referring to how the coronavirus can be spread through water droplets. She had to go to the doctor to be tested not only for Covid-19 but for HIV, Hepatitis B and C too. With the police springing into action quickly and through the help of social media, the attacker was identified and charged with six offences, including assault and indecent language.

I am very disappointed. How is it that we live in a First World country, where multiculturalism is celebrated [and this] still happens even now, in 2020? Rosa asked. Youd hope that people would have an evolved mindset at this point but clearly there are people who are still bigots and racists. Sophie added: When people think Chinese they look at all Asian people straight away they dont even consider that Asians dont have to be Chinese, and that is racism in itself. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus this year, hundreds of residents of Asian descent across Australia have reported incidents of racial discrimination, including being verbally and physically attacked, according to the Australian Human Rights Commission and the advocacy group Asian Australian Alliance. Australia, where Asian ethnic minorities make up roughly 13 to 14 per cent of the 25.7-million population, does not have a human rights law at the federal level to deal with racism as a crime. This is unlike the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and other European countries, where there are national laws that punish racist offenders as criminals. Instead, people in Australia who are victims of racial discrimination can only seek apologies and monetary damages under state and territory laws and the only federal act that deals directly with racism, the Racial Discrimination Act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vO0O72wlTo

wtf

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Even the dogs are telling her to shut the fuck up
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I cant understand anything that the Sheila is yelling.

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radical rhino posted...

I cant understand anything that the Sheila is yelling.

That is what article is for. Apparently she called them Asian whores, Asian dogs and Asian sluts somewhere in there.

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What is it with these knife wielding white women all of a sudden

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australia has rednecks?

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Racism in Australia is rife

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Hit that bitch right in her boomerang.

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monkmith posted...

australia has rednecks?

bogans?

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TreyFlowers posted...

Racism in Australia is rife

This is pure garbage. You have no idea what you are talking about.

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ColdOne666 posted...

This is pure garbage. You have no idea what you are talking about.

I live in Australia. I absolutely do.

Especially casual racism. As a 29 year old white male, I see it all day every day.

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ColdOne666 posted...

This is pure garbage. You have no idea what you are talking about.

lol someone has never been to Queensland.

Australia is super hostile to immigrants. It's one of the strictest nations to enter in the world.
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ColdOne666 posted...

This is pure garbage. You have no idea what you are talking about.

A lot of my friends who have been there have experienced a lot of racism.

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are we sure that wasn't an american

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Why are the curse words bleeped out? Shit sounds stupid in 2020.

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SerperiorThanU posted...

Coldone is allegedly Australian...
but Coldone is the kind of person whos likely to be the knife-wielder.

I live in Queensland, grew up in Victoria. Racism is everywhere in this country. You're blind if you don't see it.

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Chick in gray look like a dude with tits.

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Australia is one of the most racist countries on the planet, so much so very few of them recognize it because casual racism is so acceptable there

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Every day they face shit like their country being on fire and dingoes eating their babies, and they still have all this time for racist shit like that?

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Feed her to the dingos

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SH_expert44 posted...

Every day they face shit like their country being on fire and dingoes eating their babies, and they still have all this time for racist shit like that?

Asians are the most discriminated race in Australia. COVID just inflamed it.

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monkmith posted...

australia has rednecks?

Are you kidding?

Australia is like the Texas of the rest of Earth

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ColdOne666 posted...

This is pure garbage. You have no idea what you are talking about.

it absolutely is.

ColdOne666 posted...

This is pure garbage. You have no idea what you are talking about.

No, Australia is a pretty racist place. We had a PM who got in office on a platform of "Stop the Boats", we still have racism against Asian-Australians for coming here in droves despite the immigration boom ending in the 80's, I grew up around indigenous slurs coming from my family. You don't get a country born out of colonialism that doesn't have some deep-seated racism baked into the population by decades or centuries of accepted racist viewpoints, i.e. that the indigenous population are inferior and didn't deserve the land, and that their plight today is evidence of that. That doesn't vanish in less than 100 years.

Like I made a post last Saturday saying that I've grown to be a more patriotic person, and that I'm so proud to be an Australian because it's genuinely a better place to live than America. But that doesn't mean we have no issues of race here. Being patriotic and being thankful for where you live doesn't mean ignoring the issues that your country has.

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Isn't Australia that one country where British settlers did a bunch of genocide and ethnic cleansing on the native population, then claimed the country as their own?

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scar the 1 posted...

Isn't Australia that one country where British settlers did a bunch of genocide and ethnic cleansing on the native population, then claimed the country as their own?

Yeah we kinda took over

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When i went to Australia in the Sydney area i saw a lot white people and asian people mostly.

Rarely any black people or hispanic people. Usually tourist if so. Even asked my girlfriends cousins if he knew any black people and he said he has only known 1 or 2 black people all his life growing up. Interesting.

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Only in America!

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Wow, look at you, trying to dredge up any little thing just to prove that the US isn't the worst country in the world. You should be ashamed of yourself.

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scar the 1 posted...

Isn't Australia that one country where British settlers did a bunch of genocide and ethnic cleansing on the native population, then claimed the country as their own?

It's almost like it's ingrained in the subculture of Britannia.

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FLAMING EVIL HOMER posted...

When i went to Australia in the Sydney area i saw a lot white people and asian people mostly.

Rarely any black people or hispanic people. Usually tourist if so. Even asked my girlfriends cousins if he knew any black people and he said he has only known 1 or 2 black people all his life growing up. Interesting.

You're not going to find many Aboriginies in the city area, rent is far too expensive. Maybe the outer suburbs, but their indigenous communities are set up pretty far out from major population centers. Feels very much like segregation, if it never ended. They are allowed in to the cities of course, but they have no real reason to go unless it's for work or to join in a protest/demonstration.

Honestly, the racial problem we have here is pretty bad, and it doesn't look like it's going to be fixed any time soon.

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Alucard188 posted...

It's almost like it's ingrained in the subculture of Britannia.

What an outrageous conspiracy theory!

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