Severin

First you call me a bigot. I point out what a bigot actually is. You realise I don't fit that definition andswitch to calling me a white supremist.

What a joke.

Thinking people who don't have issues with race, unlike all my critic's here, know I don't give a stuff about colour or creed. Nothing I've said in here indicates I have in any way.

Those people realise I revel in the culture I have been born into, just as Nazeem does in his and ... well anybody except you westernist haters does that ...

I am tolerant of everything except intolerance... unlike you westernist haters ... who cannot tolerate anybody who expresses opinion that shows a love of western culture.

Open up your narrow minds and stop calling we, the revellers in the diversity of life, silly inaccurate names.

Intelligent people just laugh at that, as it only reveals your own really unusual issues with race. (In much the same way as a Freudian Slip).

Nazeem has the same opinions of his own cultural background as I have of mine.
There is only one difference between Nazeems opinions and mine.

He generalises and condemns all Australians as racists on the basis of the behaviour and expressions of an unrepresentative few ... the media and Sam Newman ... like really doh!
I specifically only condemn parts of Nazeems self-avowed religion, those that openly engender discrimination and advocate intolerance. My reasons for that are cultural not racial.

My point is his religion and cultural background determines his behaviour just as my irreligious views and cultural background determine mine. (Please note there is nothing racial in that at all).

Nazeems point is that the behaviour of a few 'white' (Nazeems word) Australians determines my behaviour.

And that Lucy is racial discrimination and would see him condemned by any Anti Dscrimination Commission in Australia.

You bloody conclusion jumping hypocritical fools have given me some great laughs over the last few days.

Thanks it's why I love Australia so much ... we tolerate that sort of eccentric behaviour.

Keith, get a life. Your views have been fairly comprehensively dissected over the past few days. Most of your claims are baseless and your statements about Nazeem are fairly offensive. If you disagree with Nazeem thats one thing, but you've said some pretty slanderous things about him in this thread.

Children, behave yourselves ! Let's get back to the topic.

Keith has actually asked a very relevant question: should one tolerate the intolerant ? He's not the first, some anthropologists have asked it about 'their' groups for a few years now, and usually run a mile from the answer.

And how does this square with the scope of freedom of expression, which MUST include the freedom to make offensive remarks ?

Since a bit of ad hominem seems to be obligatory on this forum, yes, I think Keith is probably an ignorant, Hansonite troglodyte. But he does pose a very significant issue for us :) No offense, Keith.

Joe Lane

the blackfaces on Hey Hey were Indian Doctors.

What's the problem then?

Yes, double checked no skilled migration for actors so perhaps we wait a few generations perhaps? All the actors are performing surgery at the moment and have no desire to give up big money for art.(or a porr substitute for it).

Keith,

Whatever gave you the idea that onlineopinion is a site where you can state your online opinion? Have you gone crazy? Please stop doing this at once, right now. If you persist in stating your opinions online here you will be shouted down and personally critisized by the local uneducated gestapo. Mind you they will never give any hard evidence to back up their politically correct views. So once again I must ask you to contain yourself and your views.

Thanks.