澳洲種族歧視：剃人頭者，人亦剃其頭

Bus passengers gang up and threaten to kill French tourists on Australian bus because they don’t speak English

• Four French girls were targeted after they starting singing a song in French
• Passengers started yelling at them and a bus window was smashed
• A shocked passenger caught the shocking incident on film

By ALEX WARD

Bus passengers ganged up on some French tourists, even threatening to kill them, on an Australian bus after they started singing a French song.

A shocked passenger caught the racist outburst as several people hurled verbal abuse at four French girls on a bus in Melbourne on Sunday at 10.30pm.

As they sang, a female passenger started chanting ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie’. Appearing to misunderstand the chants as playful, one of the French girls sings louder.

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Yelling abuse: This passenger was one of several who yelled abuse at four French girls on board a bus in Melbourne after they sung a French song

In response, passengers then start shouting racist abuse towards the girls, threatening to attack them before a bus window is smashed.

One passenger threatens to ‘cut the b***h’s t*ts off’ with a fishing knife offered to him by another passenger.

Another can be heard to say 'speak English or die motherf***er'.

Australian Mike Nayna filmed the whole frightening ordeal on his mobile phone and said one of the offenders was an ‘obviously drunk man’.

The stand-up comedian from Melbourne said: ‘It was a mob mentality it was sad to see. They were looking for an excuse to get angry. It was a sad state of affairs.

‘The older crowd were accepting of the racism and the younger crowd were excited, it's like they were showing off to each other.

‘Someone handed him a beer and said you can use my knife, it was this weird camaraderie, between three separate groups.

‘If it's one person going on a rant that's different, but if three people bond over it, you know the sentiment is wrong.’

Shocked at scare tactics: Australian passenger Mike Nayna caught the incident on his mobile phone which saw this man yelling at the girls before a bus window was smashed

As the abuse continued, the girls moved to the back of the bus.

In the clip, a passenger is heard shouting: ‘I'll f*****g box cutter you right now doll.

‘You've been told about four times, get off. Everyone on the bus wants to kill you and you're going to have to get off the bus eventually b***h have you worked that out yet?’

As one of the passengers gets off the bus with a pram, the sound of a smashed window at the rear of the bus is heard in the clip.

Mr Nayna said the bus remained stationery for a few minutes before driving another 500 yards down the road to a replacement bus.

'Mob mentality': The girls are seen to be shepherded down the back of the bus in an attempt to avoid the offenders

When the bus stopped, the girls were shepherded off the bus by Mr Nayna and some other passengers before running away in terror.

Mr Nayna released the video publicly in the hope it would open up discussion about racism in Australia.

He said: ‘I don't think it's an issue with buses I think it's an issue on the whole, Australia is a loving country but this is an underlying problem.

‘I don't want to look like I'm bashing my country, I love my country, I just want this to be talked about as there is an underlying issue going on her here.’

(Mail Online 21 November 2012)

'Don't call me an Australian': women guilty of racism over verbal attack on Kiwi neighbour

Date November 22, 2012 

Hurling abuse wasn't the problem for Petra Mills. But a court ruled that calling her New Zealand neighbour an Australian was racist and against the law.


Czech-born Mills, 31, has been found guilty of racially aggravated public disorder after a rant at her New Zealand-born neighbour in Macclesfield, south of Manchester.

She was trying to be offensive. I was really insulted.

Chelsea O'Reilly, who has dual British and New Zealand citizenship, said: "She called me a stupid fat Australian b****. Because of my accent there can be some confusion over my nationality. She knew I was from New Zealand.

"She was trying to be offensive. I was really insulted. She said she would kill my dog. Bizarrely she then blew raspberries at me like a child."

The incident happened when O'Reilly was giving a statement to police about a domestic incident between Mills and Mills' husband in early September, the Daily Mail reported.

Mills, who had called the police after running from her house, had stormed over to O'Reilly's house and began screaming at her.

Two police constables told the court they had heard Mills use the word "Australian" during her drunken rant.

At Macclesfield magistrates' court Mills agreed she had shouted but denied she was being racist.

"I did not use the word 'Australian'. I used to live with an Australian person. She was very nice."

But chairman of the bench Brian Donohue said: "You were in an emotional and inebriated state. The word 'Australian' was used. It was racially aggravated and the main reason it was used was in hostility."

Mills denied the charge of racially aggravated public disorder but was found guilty and fined £110. She admitted assaulting a police constable by kicking him in the shin and knee and was fined £200 on that charge. She was also ordered to pay both victims £50 compensation, and £500 court costs.

Mills and her husband moved to Scotland after the incident.

Fairfax NZ News 

這兩則涉及種族歧視的新聞，標少看了不禁失笑。本來種族歧視是嚴肅課題，不應以輕藐態度視之，讓我說明原委，解釋笑之由來。

第一則新聞是昨天的，涉及幾個法國女人，在墨爾本郊區巴士上哼幾句法國小調，竟惹來辱駡，給車上乘客拍攝下來放上youtube，點擊率高，成為國際醜聞。受辱法國女遊客一頭金髮的Caucasian尚且如此，換了是黃種或朱古力色人種，情況更加不堪。澳洲地大物博，人種身軀龐大，腦袋生得小的人實在不少。世面見得少，目光如豆，就會產生這種狹隘心態的人。這種人一般都是教育水平低，澳洲以外的地方都沒有去過，甚至飛機也沒有坐過。

第二則新聞雖然也涉種族歧視，但性質迥異。駡人是澳洲人，竟然成為"racially aggravated"的因素，也是定罪的元素。看官，你可有想過深層的含義。澳洲人這詞，等同某種帶侮辱意思的詞彙。種族歧視別人的澳洲人，自以為有說英語的優越，英國這件案就說明在那裡的人對其之蔑視，如果不是貶斥之詞(derogatory)，又怎會用來駡人而導致定罪呢？

澳洲總理Gillard去年訪美，有學生聽到她的口音，問她在澳洲是不是講英語的，此乃另一例，說明就算英語語系的世界裏，澳洲算是老幾？人的智慧，不是以土地面積，身軀大小按比例量度的。自卑膨脹成自大，把chauvinism視作nationalism，是不少缺乏教育的澳洲人的寫照。

澳洲警察應該從youtube的影片，揪出那兩個煽動種族仇恨的人，控以刑事恐嚇、刑事破壞、行為不檢及在巴士上講粗口等控罪，以儆後效。