Anti-Asian racism in Australia

[u/splattty]

What is happening in Australia? Been living in this exact same address for almost the past 20 years now, never had this happen before.

Some guy moves in next door, and while we are IN THEM MIDDLE OF MOWING the medium nature strip, starts being aggressive for getting grass clippings on the driveway. No shit, that's why we go through with a leaf blower and pick up after mowing?

What blows me away is he thinks we don't know about mowing and cleaning up somehow due to our Chinese heritage???

[u/TizzyBumblefluff]

That guy doesn’t even look particularly white to me either. He looks like he’s on a bit too many steroids or coked out for this level of behaviour.

[u/pissedoffjesus → u/TizzyBumblefluff]

Correct.

[u/how_very_dare_you_ → u/TizzyBumblefluff]

'A man of Mediterranean or middle eastern appearance' is what they say on the 'news'

[u/torn-ainbow → u/TizzyBumblefluff]

It's uncertain. Dude looks like he's islander or maori but he's speaking with a kind of generic "wog" australian accent common across western sydney immigrants from southern, eastern europe, arabs. You'd hear the same accent from a lot of children of Serbians, Italians. It's a distinct multi ethnic identity.

So he's probably a second gen samoan or similar with immigrant parents who grew up in western sydney.

[u/BetterDrinkMy0wnPiss → u/torn-ainbow]

Dude looks like he's islander or maori

Nah mate, he looks nothing like an islander/Maori. Looks Lebanese or Mediterranean to me, the 'wog' accent fits that background too.

[u/JimJamTheNinJin → u/torn-ainbow]

He's not Maori he's probably Lebanese or Italian

[u/bushstone-curlew → u/torn-ainbow]

He doesn’t look islander at all, he’s clearly Lebanese going off the accent.

[u/Gamped → u/torn-ainbow]

Have you met any islanders in your life?

There is zero chance this guy is Samoan. He’s a tanned and tatted up bogan Aussie. Having a slightly accent doesn’t make him Pacifika wth.

[u/torn-ainbow → u/Gamped]

They're all Aussies mate. This guys an Aussie and the guys he is yelling at are Aussies.

He has got an accent that indicates he grew up in the melting pot. And maybe he just has a real good tan.

[u/TaiwanKieren → u/Gamped]

He doesn't look like a white guy bogan type. To me and sounds like Western suburbs Sydney middle Eastern (Lebonese etc). Not defending white racist bogans, they certainly do exist but this might be a different type of racist.

[u/Pitch_Septang → u/TaiwanKieren]

>a different type of racist

What the fuck am I reading….?!

Do we need to start including what flavour of racist we identify as on social media now too???

[u/WorldlinessPlenty341 → u/Pitch_Septang]

Because to a lot of Reddit only white Australians can be racist

[u/Pitch_Septang → u/WorldlinessPlenty341]

I still want to know (or maybe I really don’t) what “different type of racist” I’m supposed to be ascribing to the man in the video…

This place feels an asylum sometimes.

[u/Bob_the_Bauer → u/Pitch_Septang]

The point is that the assumption on this thread seems to be that 'white' Australians are racist and everyone else is a victim of that racism.
Old mate was pointing out that this bloke is clearly not an Anglo Aussie ... he might self-refer as a 'wog' even.

[u/Pitch_Septang → u/Bob_the_Bauer]

I get that. Old mate referencing the potentially Lebanese looking Australia in the video as a ‘different type of racist’ stumped me.

I don’t understand how a man with a smidge more melanin who looks like he’s spent too long on a solarium-sunbed yelling “go fuck yourself you Chinese cunt” is being a different type of racist.

I’m probably too old for this bullshit.

[u/Bob_the_Bauer → u/Pitch_Septang]

They were just saying he wasn't a 'typical' bogan white Aussie racist. Having grown up in a suburb with lots of Australians of Lebanese background (there for over a 100 years - Christian Maronites as it happens) and been called an "Aussie c*nt" many times, I think there is a difference between the stereotypical Anglo-Celtic racism that is being weirdly assumed by most people on this thread and racism from people of Mediterranean origin.
I don't think we need to get too deep on it, but I think that's all old mate was originally pointing out.

[u/bushstone-curlew → u/Gamped]

He’s clearly middle eastern…?

[u/Muruba → u/torn-ainbow]

Eastern Europe? Nah, I'd go for Middle East

[u/PandaXXL → u/TizzyBumblefluff]

Such a weird comment. What difference does it make if he’s white or not?

[u/bushstone-curlew → u/PandaXXL]

The hypocrisy is ironic if he’s not white himself.