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Over the last few years series of racist public rants in Australia have been filmed and distributed online. While the victims of these rants have been men or women the perpetrators have always been women. This trend was noticed years ago and continues to the present times. |
Over the last few years series of racist public rants in Australia have been filmed and distributed online. While the victims of these rants have been men or women the perpetrators have always been women. This trend was noticed years ago and continues to the present times. |
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| + | Sue Wilkins, then 55, was arrested after verbally abusing a caucasian man and his Asian girlfriend. As well as making racist remarks to the Asian woman Wilkins suggested the man must have a small penis to be having a relationship with an Asian woman.<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-03/woman-facing-charges-over-racist-tirade-on-sydney-train/5569564</ref> |
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== 24 August 2016 == |
== 24 August 2016 == |
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Revision as of 06:35, 23 February 2020
Over the last few years series of racist public rants in Australia have been filmed and distributed online. While the victims of these rants have been men or women the perpetrators have always been women. This trend was noticed years ago and continues to the present times.
4 July 2014
Sue Wilkins, then 55, was arrested after verbally abusing a caucasian man and his Asian girlfriend. As well as making racist remarks to the Asian woman Wilkins suggested the man must have a small penis to be having a relationship with an Asian woman.[1]
24 August 2016
A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train and then assaults a man who tries to intervene.[2]
23 May 2017
A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train.[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-03/woman-facing-charges-over-racist-tirade-on-sydney-train/5569564
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3754567/Shocking-footage-shows-woman-launches-racist-rant-Sydney-train.html
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-23/racist-train-rant-in-sydney-caught-on-camera/8546886