If you can’t say Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers you Probably hate Poms

Nick Cater is right to be amazed. The rest of us are right to fear, since the 33-year-old Soutphommasane now has huge state power to harass and punish those he deems guilty:

It may seem unfair to the 24 million Australians who have yet to master the pronunciation of the six tones of Lao, but as Thinethavone Soutphommasane often tells us, we should always call out racism when we see it.

“If someone says to me they’re not even going to try to pronounce my...