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I'm all for inclusion of all people in our society. No one should be prejudiced for who they are.

BUT! Today I have to draw the line! Listening to the Play School alphabet song with my kid and it goes "A, B, C, D....X, Y, zed or zee". Since when is this blatant destruction of our national identity accepted?

I'll be picketing outside the ABC's head office from tomorrow and following that the education office until this travesty can be corrected! Who's with me?!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It rhymes better with zee. Seeth.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

That's really fucking stupid. It's not about "diversity", they just want to make it look like they are doing stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

The Wiggles alphabet song says this too. Although that I get since they export to the states now. It might even introduce American kids to the Zed.

Playschool is unforgivable. That's our national kids show and should be Australian.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

/s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

No /s, it is, no one says Gen Zed, or Jay Zed, XY Zee is just next in line, it's all Zee's and it makes sense why

At this point nobody is learning 'English', people are learning American because they watch American Movies, TV Shows, listen to American Music, eat American Food, play American Video Games, we watch literally millions of American Youtube and Tiktok Videos every day, we're following American Influencers and Celebrities, with American Social Media Australians are following American Politics more closely than Australian Politics and frequently confusing the two, in addition we're all addicted to the American Apps installed on American Operating Systems (all of them, Windows and MacOS and Android and IOS) on the American Smart Phones/Laptops/Desktops

The top most visited websites in Australia:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/australia/

  1. American
  2. American
  3. American
  4. American
  5. American

The consequence of this is that we lose our culture, but as some French statesman said: why bother when everyone is enjoying everything?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We can have a little pogrom against usaians as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

usaians

Cringe.

Just say Americans mate, we all know you’re not referring to the inhabitants of North America or South America, you’re not correcting any confusion only adding it by not using the countries name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Nah, it's funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?

Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

That's enough internet for me for today. Sick fuck. At least put a NSFL warning next time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I cringe if I hear someone use a hard Z

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

A noble cause

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

A picket on the sidewalk is a great idea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Rappers on a tight schedule?

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