I'm not buying it. I think Ozzie is just pretending to be a doctor to get some credibility. His posts are too incoherent to be written by somebody with a university education. A tafe education maybe.

Ozzie, watching an episode of ER does not make you a doctor.

And attending UNSW Law school (the Law school with the lowest entry marks) does not make you a proper Lawyer.

And that just gives away the fact that you're not telling the truth.

UNSW is second only to USYD in cut-off marks for school leavers. UNSW is ahead of UTS, Macquarie and UWS in Sydney. Not to mention the other law schools in Australia.

The other thing that gives away the fact that you've never been to university was your contention that only UNSW and Macquarie took in a mixture of school leavers and non-school leavers. In fact, every law school in Australia does this and if you'd attended a university you would know this to be true.

Observation of posts by ozzie clearly demonstrate that if he retains tertiary accreditation, I should be Ghengis Khan.

To quote Albert Einstein;

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity, opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

Actually Ngarmada if you were Genghis Khan it would in fact clear up quite a few things.

But anyway, I am also a bit sceptical about Ozzie's claims. I agree with CJ that it would be scary if it were true. But thankfully I'll never know.

Ngarmada its not quite right to say that CJ and I tolerate the racists. Quite a few of the non-racists on OLO routinely challenge the racists. We're both academics so maybe that explains why we 'tolerate' a multiplicity of views. You also conflated some issues in one of your posts - we might tolerate diversity of opinion but we wouldn't tolerate violence. There are also legal limits on racist speech. But as I said earlier not everybody who says something racist is fully racist themselves. People say things based on their life experience and their opinions might change if they had a more varied and pleasant life experience.

The other key thing is proportionality. In a lot of your posts the aggression towards other posters is way out of proportion to what they said. You need to calm down and to provide a measured response to opinions that you do not agree with.

There is a grain of truth in a few things that you say. I think you might have seen through Ozzie more accurately than the rest of us have. But these things are getting outweighed by overly aggressive statements.

But if you're not doing this already, I'd suggest talking to somebody or counselling. You're clearly dealing with some serious issues and in my opinion OLO just isn't the place to deal with them.

Well thank you David once again for your voice of reason. I’m a little concerned though of your concepts of ‘tolerance and proportionality.’

For as they apply to balanced reasoning, I am bewildered how you are unable to discern remarks posted by the racists I identify, as anything less than expression of aggression synonomous of violent intent.

I would refer you to poignantly articulated maxims recorded of the former leadership of the African National Congress, prior to removal of apartheid. That regime that divided Australians during protests against invitation of its rugby union team, the Springboks, that ostensibly generated incentive within a captain of that team, to become instrumental as a political activist in the demise of the apartheid regime. [Hollywood movie about to hit your screens].

Two of those maxims I refer to, state [paraphrased];

‘The white man will do everything he can to help us, except get off our backs.’

‘You do not judge evil by degrees, someone stabbing you with only two inches of a six inch blade, is not doing you a favour.’

I suggest It is not I that needs counselling, but yourself David, for the duplicity of your argument is revealed