Cheers! Yeah, you're not all bad, I just think it's really troubling how these attitudes have made it into the 21st century in Australia, but not into the public understanding of Australia. I've known a lot of white people who tend to ignore that aspect of Australia in favor of Bondi Beach or Highway 1.

Nope, but that's a reasonable example, since Lilley has an awful history of [race]face. I hadn't heard of him until I saw people on this site cooing about him. *barfs*

I was thinking of Hey Hey, it's Saturday in regards to blackface.

Any [race]face is pretty good example of racism, actually. And 2009? Not exactly ages ago... especially when stuff like that is the kind of cultural influence that leads to people thinking the above-mentioned party is a great kind of bash to throw.

Don't get me started on the other aspects... America, but more drunk and less apologetic. I mean, we're no angels here in the states, but...

Yeah, I used to want to go to Australia. Then I learned about the place and the history of it. Some of the Native Studies classes that I've taken here in the US have actually used the history of Australia and media about it in to demonstrate the genocidal aspect of colonialism.

Ah, yeah... that doesn't surprise me at all. When I hear Aussies talking about non-white Asians, it sounds like white in the US talking about people from Latin America

Yeah, Australia is racist-as-fuck (Sorry Aussies, not all of you are like this, but come on, you still have televised blackface)

You know this is just the beginning of him trolling us all really hard, right?

Compared to him, New Yorkers sound like angels. Just sayin'

LW1's 'tude is ugly, that's for sure!

Honestly, I utterly agree with you. I've had friends try to be supportive, but they fail out of lack of understanding and lack of genuine effort. Those same friends were often in the position of keeping me out of the way of doing foolish things, but failed to. Not making those foolish decisions would have saved me…

I think LW1 probably likes having someone to look down on in their life.

Hmm, and it could also be really easy to take advantage of that friendliness, even unintentionally. I could definitely see how someone could feel a bit used when there wasn't reciprocation.

Still better advice than the original, haha

Especially since she probably got hella stereotyped when she was away studying.

Exactly. I expect jerks to be jerks, but when it's someone who I thought cared about me saying some ignorant uncalled for shit, it breaks my heart.

Yes, when someone says EVERYONE in a context like that it tends to mean "EVERYONE who agrees with me, the people that disagree aren't ANYONE," that is, some good ol' selection bias.

Actually, technically we're already 'among' the stars here on Mars. Or Earth, for you Terrans. You know?

For once I agree with you. A) It's pretty clear, regardless of the nature of their relationship LW2's friend is codependent and has dealt with a lot of loss of people close to her. B) It really grosses me out to see Benincasa using language that stereotypes and derides people with mental, especially considering she…

Haha, sounds like books titles for some metacriticism of those books. I dig it.