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Black lives matter, monument defacement and media erasure: unpacking the ethics : Comments

By Rob Cover, published 18/6/2020

The 2020 expansion of the Black Lives Matter protests into a global anti-racism movement in Australia, the United Kingdom and elsewhere has been welcome in countries where black and Indigenous deaths in custody remain unacceptably high.

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All this nonesence has been debunked, catch up!

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 18 June 2020 8:23:00 AM
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Australia had a Royal Commission into aboriginal deaths in custody and it found that there was no difference between death rates of aboriginal whites, or Asians. However, all of the moaning and groaning made prison personnel overly sensitive to aboriginal deaths in custody, so now the aboriginal death rate is the lowest.

That does not stop the "we are the victims of white privilege" complainers of still pretending that blacks should have superior privileges to anyone else.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 18 June 2020 8:43:47 AM
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I suppose this emotive (and it's only about emotions, not facts) will fizzle out soon when something new and more exciting grips the imaginations of the usual suspects. For the time being, however, these stirrers will repeat lies about Aboriginal deaths in custody, and blame white people for it, and yabber about "a complex range of social and political conditions" when they are talking simple rubbish - nothing complex about it.

Cover talks of a "damaged society". Yes, our society is badly damaged - by him and his anarchist comrades.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 18 June 2020 8:59:13 AM
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I don’t know why anyone bothers to talk about reconciliation. It’s obvious that those involved in BLM movement are more concerned with causing division and stirring hatred. If you truly want friendship and acceptance between black and white in this country you don’t focus on calling white people privileged, murdering racists and set about destroying their cultural icons..
Posted by Big Nana, Thursday, 18 June 2020 9:12:08 AM
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So much contradictory statements.
First I have seen reports that the death rate for indigenous in custody
is in fact less than for non-indigenous.
A further statement made is that
NO INDIGENOUS HAS BEEN KILLED BY POLICE OR PRISON GUARDS in the
430 deaths.
Another factor is definitions.
A person killed in a traffic accident while speeding by car from police
is said to be a death in custody !
This by definition is incorrect. They were after him because he was
not in custody !
We urgently need the Prime Minister to get up in parliament and state
what the facts are and put to bed all these conflicting statements.
Posted by Bazz, Thursday, 18 June 2020 9:23:43 AM
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All lives, black and white, matter, and to assert otherwise is racist. As evidence for the claim “In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are ten times more likely to die in custody than non-Indigenous deaths in custody”, you cite a Guardian article; but it proves no such case. In fact as “it’s not just about numbers” , it wanders at length on related issues. For example:
“While the most common cause of death for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in custody was medical issues, or what coronial reports refer to as “natural causes”, Indigenous people were much less likely to have been given all of the medical care they needed prior to their death.”
Posted by Leslie, Thursday, 18 June 2020 9:29:07 AM
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