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Australian media hypocrisy over French inferno : Comments

By Bronwyn Winter, published 11/11/2005

Bronwyn Winter argues the Australian press has used the French crisis to push a little local propaganda.

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Redneck. Your assertions are false.

I am European and I like the nice and kind aspects of Protestant culture.

You want to show me where and how I have stereotyped you – Redneck? You have stereotyped yourself. You clearly love the negatives of WASP culture and have a hatred for Muslim and those who refuse to stereotype, to demonise, all Muslims because of the actions of a few fanatics.

Show me where I have rejected and hate all Northern European culture. My comments sent some aspects of your stereotyping attitude back at you. You have trouble with irony don’t you?

Your argument of reverse racism is nonsensical. Certain aspects of redneck culture that I reject are culture bound. They have nothing to do with race. They are cultural and can be changed.

I do take your point re: the stereotyping of different cultures. It is a problem in discourse. You could help with the problem by considering some of your own supposed experiences re: stereotyping and discard the negative aspects of cultures whilst embracing the positives. It is wrong, for instance, to claim that the actions of a few terrorists is representative of all Christians/Muslims/rednecks.

I have argued before that there are aspects of various cultures that are superior to aspects of others. Behaviours such as kindness and niceness are superior to nastiness and malice.

Christian nations are terrorising innocent Iraqi folk just as certain Muslims are adopting negative behaviours towards others. I think there are many US Christians who are against the Coalition of the Killers and European Protestants who are all for multicuturalism. So you see that just because one disapproves of certain aspects of another's culture doesn't mean they hate all that culture. You Redneck, on the other hand, can't seem to grasp this simple fact.
You still haven’t presented a coherant argument to explain why democracy and multi-culturalism are not co-dependant.
Redneck you spend a lot of energy stirring up hated by trying to allocate negative behaviours of a minority to the majority. I think that there is a better way. (Cheerfulness).
Posted by rancitas, Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:34:47 AM
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When are people going to realise that there are fundamental differences in races?

We are all born with inherent bias that no amount of "conditioning" is going to alter.

Spoon feeding multiculturalism only blinds the weak and gullible. If you do not have pride in your own race then you do not have pride in yourself.

Why is it that Anglo Australians are made to feel inferior about being proud of our heritage?

Why is it assumed to be racist to embrace our white culture?

The rest (not the west) show disdain for what we have developed yet they are only too willing to take all this country has to offer.

I am extremely proud of my heritage and feel at ease when I mix with others of the same ilk.

I have been in situations where a person I used to work with in Sydney had his 8 year old daughter tell me to my face that she hates Australians. I have white Australian friends tell me they have been spat on by muslim women in Lakemba. I have seen the hate in minority groups towards us and for what? Because we gave them a home, free medical and opportunities.

Don’t tell me that multiculturalism works in this country or any other. It only works for capitalists who go by the old saying that “people are the best resource”, which is ok to say from the ivory towers but get down here at commoner level and see what is really happening.

The recipe for civil war has been delivered. The situation on street level is volatile and wont take much to ignite. Yet the powers that be will continue to pretend that we still live in the lucky country.

I fear for the future of this country.
Posted by Alchemy, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:41:32 AM
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Your fear is mush grounded, Alchemy.

<I have seen the hate in minority groups towards us and for what? Because we gave them a home, free medical and opportunities.>

OPPORTUNITY is the most important one to suppose.

There is NO opportunity in contemporary Australia but prostitution and trafficking drugs, and for those belonging to above mentioned minorities surely.
Posted by MichaelK., Wednesday, 7 December 2005 4:03:01 PM
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