LANG U4AOS2 Flashcards
Lidia Thorpe tells Pauline Hanson to ‘f*** off’ after bombshell speech in Senate
–> June 2023
‘fuck off pauline’
Language represents a powerful conveying of personal beliefs and identity, hence, when emotions are large, it is fitting language choices would reflect this.
‘I had to withdraw them [the remarks]’
–> reflects the situations when informal language, expletives are deemed inappropriate and unacceptable
I believe that expletives should not be so condemned, even in formal contexts, for their capacity to convey emotional positions and beliefs.
The C-bomb has been defused. Now we weaponise more dangerous words
July 21, 2023
‘cunt’ has been pacified
whereas discriminatory lang is becoming worse e.g ‘faot’ ‘Nga’ ‘po*f’
Words like the c-bomb and ‘f*ck) serve important identity functions, signalling social solidarity and building rapport.
However, discriminatory language, whose meanings are deteriaating, are deemed inappropriate in almost all social contexts.
‘today’s offensive language singles out its victims’
Swearing which aims to convey identity and often build rapport should not be condemned for this, however, language which singles out individuals and discriminates should be challenged for this.
Racial abuse
–> Michael fredrick and Walters
= football game against St Kilda win
–> flurry of racial abuse.
e.g–> Walters ‘I hope you die you petrol sniffing c***’, and ‘Black ass dog’
–> Fredrick –> ‘you stupid black nigga slave piece of shit!’
this language is violent use of language is undoubtedly disgusting and disgraceful, and should be condemned for its capacity to demean, devalue, discriminate, degrade and diminish.
‘this has to stop’ (mcglauglin)
‘reinforcing the subjugation of people’ (Hamilton)
‘Nazi salutes, memes and assaults: Jewish students say state schools are unsafe’
‘dirty jew’
‘jewboy’
‘jewish rat’
‘back to the camps jew’
‘heil hitler’
discriminatory language, being increasingly common, should be denounced and challenged for its harmful nature.
‘this is racism…not bullying’
478 instances
ugle Hagen racist abuse.
2023 March 27, against st Kilda
‘co*n’
‘a slur that cuts deep like a sharp abandon’
‘venomous’
‘a reflection of hatred’
ugle hagans mother.
‘Harmful and abhorrent racist remarks’
(western bulldogs).
–> language used against Ugly-Hagan is strongly racist, and attempts to demean and diminish’
’ I wouldn’t want my kids to be around that’ Lhawaja decries abuse from crowds.
describes travis head being called a ‘cunt’
and Carey called a ‘cheat’
‘wouldn’t want my kids around that’
the language used at sporting events tends to be very course and explicit, often abusive towards opposing players.
‘I don’t agree with it’ (Khawaja)
‘I can’t believe you can actually say that in a public domain anywhere’
Nazi Salutes and antitrans protests.
18th march 2023
–>’trans lives over terf hate’
anti trans, neo-nazi demonstrations
‘every sensible and reasonable person must know there are limits on free speech’
‘incite hatred’
no campaigner Adler re Thorpe and grant
august 14 2023
‘what % Aboriginal are you? You appear quite white’
‘nothing short of grotesque’ (leibler),
-this overtly discriminatory language is inappropriate anywhere; it is made more hurtful by its presence in the parlimentary domain
