Sorry but the waving away of the australian chant as ok but the singh comment not being ok, does not wash at all.
Balbi, your comment about an old white guy harrassing a young brown kid doesn't wash either. What does KH's race and age have to do with anything? Unless you are stereotyping him here for your own gain in the debate? Doesn't that completely go against everything you apparently stand for? Why are you actively disparaging someone's viewpoint due to the colour of their skin, and their age? That's awfully hypocritical.
And why the significance of Singh's skin colour? Even KH's terrible comments didn't mention that. We can only infer that due to the fact that almost all Indians have brown skin. Is it different then if it was a young white kid instead of a young brown kid eg "don't give that greek the ball, he'll batter and deep-fry it" or something else totally abhorrent like that? I know that's a silly question but just pointing out that nobody, not even KH, actually talked about skin colour here, so to use it as the club to beat with is totally unnecessary.
I'll accept that Australian is not a race, but NEITHER IS INDIAN. The country of India is massively diverse, people in neighbouring villages have different religions, different languages, different belief systems, it's just as arrogant and naive to paint all Indians as a collective non-race thing as it is Australians.
Even if we ignore that, and say ok, Australian is not a race but Indian is, are we then saying racism is not ok, but xenophobia is? Really?
I had to laugh at the statement "KH thinks they're no different but he would say that". What about me? I don't think they're much different, but I've got no skin in this game at all. I've not seen any coherent and sensible argument to my post at all here, just a bunch of noise from a bunch of "white guys" (joke) who think they know better than everyone.
I'd rather hear from Singh, and an Aussie who is offended by the cheating chant, and see what they think about it. And before you say no one is offended in Australia, I bet I could find people if I had the time.
My mother-in-law recently told me she was dismayed by the Mitre 10 ad with the aussie kid who refuses to help, and is derided by the kiwi kids, she said to me isn't that xenophobic? I had a giggle, but then later I was thinking, well she's not wrong you know. I'm not offended by it and I think most aussies would have a laugh, but where do we draw the line, and who decides on the placement of that line? Apparently Balbi and others in here are the judge of that, but I'm not sure what qualified them for it. The ability to shout people down?
Once again, I'm compelled to add the disclaimer that personally I found KH's statements terrible, and I would have equally confronted him was I at that game. I also feel the need to salute Balbi and others for doing so, despite what I say above. I am purely arguing here that I think the comparison between the Singh comment, and the cheating Aussies chant, is entirely fair.
This doesn't mean I want to decide where the line is either, or ban the chant, or anything really. I just find it a fascinating discussion point that is relevant to the debate currently happening in our culture, and I don't see any good explanation as to why these two things are vastly different.