Racist Humour - 'I'm not a racist but...'

In Australia we have five free-to-air TV channels. Three commercial and two government run stations, which are arguably more cutting edge and interesting.

This debate started from the Gruen Transfer (ABC), a weekly comedy show about advertising and the media. Each week they organise for two advertisers to try and sell the un-sellable (vacation in Iraq, invading NZ etc). This week was about weight discrimination.The first of the two competitors created an ad about how fat people eat more and therefore help our economy in tough times as 'super consumers'... this second ad was banned from TV but was allowed on the net. During broadcast there is normally a brief 20 second discussion on each ad... The Gruen Transfer decided this ad deserved greater debate and have given it a full 15 minutes. Here's a link to an interesting debate about racist humour: http://www.antiprejudicead.net/

Here's their great: 'Invade New Zealand' ad from last year