WTF | May 20, 2009 | 14 comments

Man shot twice in Kings Cross attack - New Internet Star is born.

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0L2VaTWs9s

Lina1980
This news footage shot by 9 News in Sydney has made stars of the witnesses, particularly a young lady called Clare who uses the word 'wog' with incredible abandon. Now she has a publicist and you can buy t-shirts.

Check this link for the motivational posters being made by internet users.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/slideshow_ajax.aspx?sectionid=9016&sectionname=sl...

I'm becoming increasingly interested in the way people become internet stars.
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14 comments // Man shot twice in Kings Cross attack - New Internet Star is born. // Video

  • brad2000
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      brad2000  
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    • It turns out that Chk-Chk-Boom Girl didn’t witness the shooting at all; she just wanted to be on TV. Well congratulations, you’re now famous (for being a racist idiot). Chk-Chk-Boom.

    • 2 years ago
  • twitterbot
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  • brad2000
  • Hendrix_Is_God
  • brad2000
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      brad2000  

    • I can’t get enough of this VT; I must have watched it 3 or 4 times today. It’s partly because I used to live in Kings Cross, partly because that racist girl is attractive, and partly because I frickin’ love the Australian media in a Anchorman sort of way.

      I agree context is everything: if someone wants to call a gun victim a wog on the 9 o’clock news, then they bloody well will (cobber). As long as it’s viewed in the context that Australia is an inherently racist country; but since it’s just the way they talk, then contextually - it’s OK.

    • 2 years ago
  • Hunter_the_Cat
  • JCollier
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      JCollier  

    • This sums up Sydney- most particularly the scumbags who hang out in Kings Cross, pretty succinctly.

      Australia's latent (and sometimes not!) racism is fairly appalling. I only rarely heard indigenous australians either referred to as anything other than 'wogs' or 'abos' and was told never to go to Redfern (an area in Sydney) because 'that's where the wogs live'.

    • 2 years ago
  • c_dangerfield
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      c_dangerfield  

    • I haven't read the comments but can completely imagine. There is a genuine cultural divide between some countries and others; the internet is very effective in revealing these. It's wrong to say that makes another population more or less racist because that depends on the intent behind the words, and I am in no place to suggest anything of the sort.

      However, from my limited experience and evidence such as this, it seems they are fairly comfortable with some language which most others would consider pretty medieval...

    • 2 years ago
  • c_dangerfield
  • Lina1980
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      Lina1980  
    • c_dangerfield:

      I think you know what you mean - do you think that Aussies have a different way of talking about race? In a way though, I do feel that calling someone a wog is pretty much out of a global context and maybe there is something to be said for updating the idiom over there.

      I was shocked by the seemingly racist language used by even themost liberal, educated people I met in Sydney when I was there.

      If you click the link and read some of the comments it's quite interesting to read as they're talking about the same thing as we are.

    • 2 years ago
  • marko9
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      marko9  

    • What the hell? How was she not taken to task? And she has a publicist, f*ck! The interviewer didn't even bat an eyelid either!

    • 2 years ago
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  • jonbrooks
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