Racist public rants in Australia
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.
- An Asian woman who verbally attacked a middle eastern woman with broken English
25 February 2014
Two women cast racial slurs and assaulted an elderly man who was unable to see after his glasses were knocked off when he was attacked. The man reportedly does not identify as aborigine.[1]
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.[2]
Wilkins was quoted as saying:
"Can't you get an Aussie girlfriend? You had to get a gook, you sad, poor pathetic man... Is it really that small you can't get an Aussie girl?"[3]
24 August 2016
A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train and then assaults a man who tries to intervene.[4]
23 May 2017
A woman verbally abuses an Asian passenger on a Sydney commuter train.[5]
References
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/racist-gold-coast-bus-attack-victim-complaint-girls-involved
- ↑ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-03/woman-facing-charges-over-racist-tirade-on-sydney-train/5569564
- ↑ 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