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Peter Mellow
July 30, 2019 10:02 PM
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Boris Johnson, the overwhelming favorite to take over as Britain's prime minister next week, is facing renewed accusations of Islamophobia after he wrote in a newly-unearthed text from 2007 that the religion has left Muslim countries "centuries behind" the Western world.
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Peter Mellow
July 30, 2019 9:45 PM
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The great showman taught us to love hyperbole, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent.
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Peter Mellow
June 27, 2019 7:11 PM
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NSW Labor leader says ‘no offence’ meant after video surfaces of him saying ‘our kids are moving out and foreigners are moving in’
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Peter Mellow
June 24, 2019 9:50 PM
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Writer of The Sapphires, Tony Briggs has an impressive acting resume but he still gets referred to as an Aboriginal actor.
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Peter Mellow
June 18, 2019 9:52 PM
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Harvard has standards for admission that include not making wildly offensive comments.
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Peter Mellow
June 18, 2019 6:31 PM
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Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett has finally apologised, after being contacted by league boss Gillon McLachlan.
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Peter Mellow
June 17, 2019 7:33 PM
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The US President dubbed Mr Khan a "disaster" following a spate of violent crimes in London.
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Peter Mellow
June 17, 2019 6:18 PM
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The anonymous sexual, homophobic and anti-religious messages were being exchanged as Liberal leaders were calling for a party clean-up.
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Peter Mellow
June 13, 2019 6:24 PM
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New research has found that racial vilification is a common occurrence in junior sport in Australia – and is rarely punished when it happens.
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Peter Mellow
June 12, 2019 6:11 PM
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Simon Grech claims he was threatened with being evicted from MCG on Monday for barracking too loudly. He says he condemns abusive language. But his Twitter account tells a different story.
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Peter Mellow
June 8, 2019 1:06 AM
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Two women who refused to kiss in front of a group of men were punched in the face.
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Peter Mellow
June 1, 2019 8:49 PM
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‘Yesterday I was African, today I am lost,’ Takunda Muzondiwa tells an Auckland audience
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Peter Mellow
May 27, 2019 8:06 AM
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Jews face threats from extremists on the left and the right. A third of European Jews have considered emigrating.
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Peter Mellow
July 30, 2019 9:54 PM
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The Adam Goodes documentary The Final Quarter, screened on television on Thursday night, confronted Australia with its casual racism - and that's a good thing.
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Peter Mellow
July 4, 2019 6:10 PM
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Thousands of ethnic minority Muslim children undergo "cultural re-engineering" in giant boarding schools.
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Peter Mellow
June 25, 2019 7:32 PM
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Japanese Americans who objected to a World War II loyalty test were stigmatized by the U.S. government and their own community. Resisting injustice helps heal the intergenerational trauma.
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June 20, 2019 6:38 PM
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Barracking has been a colourful and controversial part of Australian Rules football since the game's inception. Now, the AFL is trying to maintain order – and fans are irate.
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Peter Mellow
June 18, 2019 6:31 PM
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In a flurry of tweets on Monday, actor John Cusack repeatedly apologised to his 1.6 million followers for retweeting an anti-Semitic meme - after defending why he hit send in the first place.
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Peter Mellow
June 18, 2019 12:34 AM
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Philip Arps, a Christchurch businessman, pleaded guilty to distributing the video, which he described to the judge as "awesome"
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Peter Mellow
June 17, 2019 6:38 PM
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How Dame Stephanie Shirley went from child refugee to computer industry and women's rights pioneer.
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Peter Mellow
June 15, 2019 8:52 PM
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When Trump referred to “bad hombres” in the 2016 debate, Adam Schwartz, a specialist in Spanish-language education at Oregon State University, wrote that “Donald Trump just made it a hell of a lot easier for me—and for all of us who teach about language, race and racism—to talk with students about Mock Spanish and the power of covert racist discourse.” Schwartz observed that while “hombre itself might not be a racial slur,” Trump’s use of it crystalized “the scope of that word’s injury, its offensiveness, its oppressive potential.”
As for loco, it too represents a remnant of English-Spanish linguistic contact along the western and southwestern frontier. According to Cowboy Talk: A Dictionary of Spanish Terms From the American West by Robert M. Smead, the word goes back to 1844 in American English, used in conjunction with locoweed, a poisonous plant that caused a distemper in cattle called loco or locoism. Like hombre, it was kept alive in the limited lexicon of anglicized Spanish found in cowboy movies.
Jane Hill noted in her book that loco has exemplified one pattern of Mock Spanish, the euphemistic substitution of “vulgar” English words with “insulting, lewd, or scatological” Spanish equivalents. She observed that it could be used for political name-calling in conjunction with other typical Mock Spanish elements, such as the article el and the suffix -o, as when Rush Limbaugh called the former Democratic congressional leader Dick Gephardt “El loco poco Dicko.”
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Peter Mellow
June 13, 2019 6:24 PM
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Racism online is hurtful and damaging. But it can also spill into the real world with deadly consequences – such as the Christchurch terrorism attack.
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Peter Mellow
June 10, 2019 6:19 PM
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Former Sydney Swans player Brandon Jack recounts the final three years of Adam Goodes' career and how he wishes he had done more.
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Peter Mellow
June 8, 2019 1:05 AM
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Sam Brittenden says he's done some stupid things but 'this was on a whole new level'.
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Peter Mellow
May 30, 2019 8:16 PM
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The actor’s grumble about London reflects a wrongheaded view on immigration that needs to change, says writer and researcher Maya Goodfellow
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