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Tender Branson
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« on: April 26, 2015, 11:24:08 AM »

A video of a man hurling racist abuse at a Somali passenger on a tram in Vienna has caused outrage on social media and provoked a discussion about moral courage.

The mobile phone video, uploaded on Friday to YouTube, has already been viewed over 14,000 times and has numerous comments asking why none of the other passengers defended the black man who was subjected to the verbal abuse.

The video shows how an older Austrian man, who appears to have been drinking, insults a Somali man who is standing the other side of the carriage. The Austrian calls him a "filthy n****r swine" and threatens to knock him over, asking repeatedly “What are you doing here?" and telling him to “go back to the jungle”.

None of the other passengers on the tram intervene and all seem to be looking the other way - apart from the person who filmed the incident.

The Wiener Linien transport company has said that in cases of verbal or physical abuse, passengers should inform the tram or train driver, who would then call the police and ask people to leave the tram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C--t9wYdLxQ

http://www.thelocal.at/20150422/racist-outburst-prompts-civil-courage-debate

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Looks like the old white guy is drunk, but that's no excuse for this stuff ...
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« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2015, 11:41:16 AM »

Austrian racists apparently only like black people if they:

* are Austrian-born
* fluent in the local dialect
* are Christians
* are hardworking, or
* play good football



If these criteria are met, a black person will even get 80% approval from Austrian racists and FPÖ-voters - like David Alaba.

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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2015, 12:58:15 PM »

Shocking
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2015, 03:07:03 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2015, 03:08:23 PM »

Bad. Not really shocking though?
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2015, 03:39:14 PM »


Not really, but I like to make a strong statement against drunk old racists or racist old drunkards before this thread became one long train crash.
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2015, 04:09:28 PM »

Not shocking at all. We are talking of a country where the far-right polls 25% and which totally failed its denazification process.
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2015, 04:12:37 PM »

Also, drunk or not, he should have realized that there are no jungles in Somalia.
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« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2015, 04:34:50 AM »

I'm not understanding why this is shocking.
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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2015, 04:35:56 AM »

I'm not understanding why this is shocking.

It's not in the slightest.
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