Australian Judge Finds the 'N-word' Not Offensive

No doubt this ruling will go over well.

A QUEENSLAND judge has found the terms "nigger" and "sandnigger" are not offensive to a reasonable person.

Magistrate Michael O'Driscoll made the ruling yesterday when he dismissed a case against a Gold Coast retiree charged with sending an offensive facsimile to a local politician, reported the Gold Coast Bulletin.

Denis Mulheron, 62, sent the fax to the office of Queensland lawmaker Peta-Kaye Croft on June 30 last year.

It called on the Labor Party to tighten immigration laws against "niggers" and "sandnigger terrorists," and Muslim women with circumcised genitals.

Staff member Christie Turner, 28, told Southport Magistrates Court she was deeply offended when she read the one-page document, which also made reference to indigenous Australians as "Abos."

Mulheron, from the Gold Coast suburb of Labrador, told the court he had grown up with the slang terms for Arabs and black Africans and did not believe they were offensive.

"I'm not a member of the cafe, chardonnay and socialist set ... to me that is everyday language," he said.

He argued in court they were no different to calling a New Zealander a "Kiwi" or an American a "Yank."

Yeah, just like calling someone a Yank. Sure, that makes sense.