ABC Are Obsessed With Skin Colour

At the ABC, they ostensibly hate racism and sexism, but yet, they mention people’s skin colour and gender at every opportunity. For example, in the triple j Hottest 100 countdown of 2023 this year (you know, the one that used to be held on Australia Day, but isn’t anymore because listening to music on Australia Day is evil), well, the number one song was Paint the Town Red by American rapper Doja Cat. But more importantly, according to the ABC, she’s the first woman of colour to claim the number one spot. Ah, that old chestnut, “woman of colour”, or “person of colour”. Let’s just lump a whole bunch of disparate ethnic groups into one indiscriminate category. That’s not racist, right?

Aussie singer G Flip came in at number two with The Worst Person Alive, which, according to the ABC, is the highest placing for a non-binary artist. They also describe her, sorry “them”, as being a “footy loving, reality tv-starring, afterparty-throwing queer non-binary legend”. Of course, only identity matters nowadays at the ABC. They could have just said, Doja Cat made a great song, or, G Flip is a great songwriter, but no, instead you have to point out their skin colour, or their indeterminate gender. What else should we expect our taxpayer-dollars to be spent on?

Perhaps the ABC need to take a page out of Morgan Freeman’s book. When the American actor was asked how we are going to get rid of racism, he simply replied, “Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man, and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.” Apparently, the ABC didn’t get the memo. In the ABC’s eyes, Mr Freeman is, and always will be, a “person of colour”. Thanks ABC for helping us to fight racism by keeping racism alive.

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