Peter Wynn
2 min readAug 31, 2021

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I've written a story on here about a man who was very racist, even if he did attend a dinner paid for by a Vietnamese man, who was a client of his wife's firm, and invited an Australian Aboriginal country and western singer to his caravan for a chat and a drink (okay, the singer had an English wife, and the racist man liked country and western music, so he made an exception there) and he ate Chinese food and drove a Japanese vehicle, BUT, the crowning blow for him was after his mother died, when his sister, who was not racist and was a lovely woman, told the man that, shock, horror, their great-grandfather was Chinese! Some people I've told about it have said, "You couldn't be racist after that." Well, in his case, he became more racist and denied his Chinese heritage. I remember my brother told him a joke and he mentioned that the man's great-grandfather came from China and the man sourly snarled, "Yeah!" I almost wanted to say to the man, "Well, if your great-grandmother had thought the way you did, you wouldn't be here, today." And, "If you're so anti-Asian, why do you, a) drive a Japanese vehicle (why didn't you buy a Jeep or Land Rover? (okay, he was interested in a Mitsubishi Pajero, but when my father bought a rebadged Nissan Patrol, his wife, who worked with my father, while her husband was away, ordered him a 4WD like my father's and told him he had to have one, too), b) eat Chinese food, c) make use of products made in China, Taiwan and Korea?"

The thing with bigots is they cannot challenge their own prejudices. In Australia, we have a complete idiot of a politician, who supported trump and who begged for tickets to his inauguration, who, when presented with figures that disproved her claims, said that she didn't believe them.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

Diagnosed with autism at 35. Explained a lifetime of difference.

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