• Tribunal finds calling someone a 'Kiwi' does not count as racial discrimination
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/tribunal-finds-calling-worker-kiwi-not-racial-discrimination/10576356
@Taliyah kiwi nerd get in here
Man Kiwis take everything way too seriously. They're still salty about us calling NZ the 8th state of Australia.
I have never been salty about anyone calling me a Kiwi. Might have something to do with the fact that I am at least 25% Kiwi thanks to my dad. >Vili's argued that the New Zealand Government openly endorsed the term "Kiwi" and that it was used as "a term of endearment and as a means of identifying as a New Zealander". Judge Farrell agreed, finding that calling a New Zealander a Kiwi "was not of itself offensive". This is key. Our own fucking government officially endorses that New Zealanders can be called Kiwi(s). The complainer was barking up the wrong tree.
Kiwi's need to chill tf out
I'm actually EMBARRASSED that I have to agree with this. Normally Kiwi's actually chill as fuck but good LORD we do complain on some of the SILLIEST of things.
thats usually a sign that there's nothing more serious to complain about. is this the case i'm not the most up to date
https://twitter.com/broderick/status/922384792095744000?lang=en
Why would they be mad? Kiwi birds are the cutest things ever. im sure the birds don't mind
Ha! kiwi cunt https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223311/99db61d1-7a2d-4b4a-a412-c9790a52decb/aussie.png That's what I keep telling my sister when she gets mad I call her a bitch. Bitches make puppies and they're some of the most precious things on this planet.
Wait, someone got offended their supervisor nicknamed them Kiwi? I mean, if it was in a SUPER OBVIOUS DEROGATORY way with VITRIOL then fair enough, but it sounds like it was used how it should be used without any implied racial discrimination and it's a case of someone being very unreasonably offended. I can 'kind of' see her perspective. When I started my last job my boss nicknamed me "Rockstar" because of the way I had my hair styled and the way my glasses gave me the look, and it pissed me off that he would never call me my name (much less remember it), but when everyone else called me it I eventually grew into it.
Makes me wonder what the same tribunal would say about calling someone a paki. I know we say it on national television without anyone batting an eyelid, but in the UK it's the same as calling someone a nigger.
It feels like a majority (at least it feels like) of us just use the words without intentional malice, it gives the idea of the kind of person you're talking about without having to explain more (like your usual stereotype) but you don't mean it as a racial slur unless you follow up or open with a negative connotation. We're usually more lax like that in the lower hemisphere.
Paki is short for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakenham,_Victoria
@Kiwi
This isn't my account CHIP.
'Straya-Lite being mad as usual
She's right, she shouldn't be called a kiwi. She should be called a fucking idiot we don't want back. Between this and the other local idiot from New Zealand that whines about national identities, I'm gonna have to issue a formal apology again before long
Quiz time: Name famous rogue kiwi on facepunch?
boilrig?
You have actually posted a picture of me right there. Been a while since I hugged a croc but he's still with me, in my heart of hearts. I never once in my life saw Kiwi as an insult. I know SO MANY NZ folk, some of the loveliest people I can say I have ever met, and even THEY all call each other Kiwi all day and night. I've never met a NZer who ever gave a shit about the word... it's endearing, far as we're all concerned. This person is just using it as a crutch to get back at someone they don't like, by the sounds of it. Probably nothing particularly concrete they had to go on to 'have a go' at them, so they went for the tried and true discrimination angle. Happy as fuck it didn't work, but I wonder what the true drama is behind the scenes.
We have a winner.
@Boilrig what is a Boilrig anyway i picture an oil rig that just inexplicably boils shit instead of drilling for oil
Oi m8, thats discrimination, take that back right now
Facepunch is UK company, UK is out of EU soon. See where this is heading?
it's okay i got your back bro
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