Memo to the Socks….

Sheila T
#1. July 7th, 2008, at 3:57 AM.

Excellent!

john reid
#2. July 7th, 2008, at 10:45 AM.

where can I sign up to help her plant seeds

WL Mackenzie Redux
#3. July 7th, 2008, at 11:32 AM.

What type of festered sphincter would want to toss a fetchin’ little woman like that out of the country?

EBD
#4. July 7th, 2008, at 11:56 AM.

That is absolutely the way to deal with the racist mouth-breathers: get people to laugh at them. Unfortunately, if a Muslim took her specific approach it wouldn’t necessarily be funny, inasmuch as certain prominent Imams, mostly in Europe, have been making the same case, in a dead serious manner, that the young lady is jokingly making. So if a Muslim comedian ribbed people in the manner she is, well, that would be like a German comedian in 1934 saying to a Czech audience “You’d better watch out, we’ve got our eyes on the Sudetenland….”

On a side note, and absolutely independent of religion, race and ethnicity, I get the sense that Khurram Awan. S.p. is utterly devoid of any sense of good-natured humour, and that he comprehensively lacks the negative capability that allows for any world view in which humour is possible. Arguably, that plays a big role in the case he was making against Macleans and Mark Steyn.

Louise
#5. July 7th, 2008, at 6:36 PM.

Right on!! Make that woman Prime Minister!!!

Brett_McS
#6. July 7th, 2008, at 11:49 PM.

This brings to mind a cartoon from the good ol’ days (sniff) of Beach Inspectors. An obese, hairy, warty, ugly old beach inspector accosting a couple of young ladies in scanty bikinis “You look disgusting!”.

Rod Blaine
#9. July 8th, 2008, at 2:12 AM.

That cartoon was in my history textbook 20-25 years ago.

And yeah, Natalie is typical of the new generation of ABAs (Australian-Born Asians). They work hard, they play by the rules, but they don’t take any crap from racists. In short, they rock.

(See Stephanie Chaves-Jakobsen’s character in Battlestar Galactica: Razor for another e/g).

It’s not their skin colour or their eye shape that makes someone Australian, but their attitude - viz, a complete lack of tolerance for cliches and bullshit - and Natalie just scored five stars out of five.

May their tribe increase.

Simon Fleischmann
#10. July 8th, 2008, at 2:18 AM.

THANK YOU JAY!!!

I thought this video was perfect! I genuinely hope that attempts to censor/muzzle YouTube and other “people’s expression” sites fail miserably. Sure, you get a lot of a$$holes spewing crap, but you ALSO get PURE GOLD. It depends on what you LOOK for, doesn’t it?

For me, life is a glass that is always half-full, never half-empty. I look for opportunities to BUILD and EXPAND, not to correct and diminish. Seems to me that this young lady shares that perspective.

lewis
#11. July 8th, 2008, at 4:42 AM.

Stop the presses! Racism the world over is solved! Send this clip to the UN. I can’t wait to see the impact this will have on the bigots and racists; especially the ones who believe that by expounding their jaded ideology through the presses, they are doing nothing more than reporting news. Genius Jay, genius!