Slip of the tongue?

[patrolmq]

I thought Eddie was just making a references to King Kong because the guy had a beard. How was it turned into a racist thing? I don't know the guy, but when I saw pictures of him, I couldn't even tell if he was foreign, I instantly thought the joke was about his beard (which does look a bit like King Kong's). If he was white born in Australia and had a beard like that and someone made a joke about King Kong, it would just be a joke and nobody would think anything of it.
I am foreign, my wife is foreign and I definitely think some Aussies have a serious problem with non-Australian born or non-white people (ironically even if their parents or grand-parents were born overseas!) as we've seen in the news recently- threatening to kill and cut up people in public is sick (yet somehow almost no action is taken), but this was clearly a joke about the way the guy looked like king kong and there was no mention of a connection with race what so ever. I don't see what the issue is. More fuss is being made over this than the numerous people who have been publicly threatened with death or torture for not being a white Australian recently, which is somehow ok as long as the victim does not press charges, despite the video evidence. What f'ckd up priorities.