Matildas captain Sam Kerr charged over alleged racially aggravated harassment of police officer

wog is extremely audience specific. You trot that in melbs and it's often nbd because it's considered by many to be a reclaimed slur by the community. You say that in any other state and it's considered reason to punch your teeth in.

"paki" reads to some as australian shorthand, of the kind we are renowned for. It's really fucking not.

Any rate, there is zero good faith reason to use either word when talking to a fucking cop about a taxi fare.

One of my mates is a Wog and we refer to him as that (he also refers to himself as a Wog) all the time. As far as we're concerned that's just an alternate word for his nationality and no different from calling an Australian an Aussie.

I'd argue you could totally use "Aussie" as an insult in the right context and it's the same with Wog... at least where I live.

Honestly until I'd read this post, I hadn't even considered that Wog might be insulting. And I don't think I've ever even heard the word "Paki" in my life. No idea what it implies to be honest.

No idea why anyone would think "wog" is less offensive in Australia, but "paki' does have a different connotation in the UK since it's often the go-to slur used against any person who appears to be of South Asian descent. I don't think it's as commonly or broadly used here.

Why would Paki be racist here?

It’s like how in America ‘Jap’ is racist, whereas here ‘Nip’ is racist. Both are short hands for the country name Japan/Nihon(Nippon).

Or the British turning Ning-Nong/Nig-Nog into their version of the n word because some politician used it as such in the 60s or something, whereas here we shortened it to nong and it’s kept its original meaning of a foolish person.

It’s the cultural history behind the words that make them racist and just because we speak dialects of English doesn’t mean our words have followed the same trajectories.