Ex-ABC's Armstrong has just the app for racists
By Tony Bosworth in Media News on Friday, 21st March 2025 at 3:32pm
Ex-ABC Breakfast Show co-host Tony Armstrong has released a satirical video on his Instagram account targeting racism. It’s an amusing sketch about a made-up grammar app, Furore, which says it is for, “keeping racists safe online by helping them spell their outbursts correctly”.
The Indigenous presenter introduces the video with the words: “Hey racists, we’ve tried to make sure you feel represented in this video. If not we’ll try again in the next one. Fuck racism, Tony.”
Armstrong homes in on a feature of all too many racist outbursts - their lack of correct grammar.
“Don’t you think that if you reckon another culture or race is inferior, the least you could do is convey that belief through the bare minimum grammatical standards of the colonial language that y...
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