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Originally Posted by SportsRacer
Yeah, it's a different context. If that aired here (which it never EVER would), it would no doubt be racist. It's different in Australia.
That's also why the blackface thing was allowed on air. Before Harry Connick set 'em straight, they didn't really know quite how offensive it was.
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best as I can recall, the ad ran for about 2 weeks until some journo, via the US, informed the press it was 'racist'. being a slow news day and our media's love of anything vaguely 'racist', it became front page material.