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Race, media and cultural identities in Australia : Comments
By Andrew Jakubowicz, published 12/4/2010The level of inter-cultural knowledge in Australia remains extraordinarily low: the media ensure there is very little presence of people of colour.
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What I dont understand is why one of the racist scumbags keeps quoting Robbie Williams like it means something. These people are low-lifes I don't know why they've been allowed to fester on OLO.
Posted by jjplug, Friday, 16 April 2010 10:48:43 PM
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WHY SHOULDN'T WHITE PEOPLE DOMINATE THE MEDIA WE INVENTED IT.
Probably to our own detriment in some ways because we see all the tragedies unfolding around the world and we want to send troops in to help. Like Serbia, Somalia etc.East Timor, The Solomons all we ever get back is hate and give me more more more. We see people starving because of famine and uncaring leaders who don't seem to have a clue how to run countries so they will be prosperous and beneficial to the whole of their populations. So we help them out with billions of dollars in aid, money which by the way could be spent on our own people, our old and frail, it could pay for maternity leave for out mothers, be given to provide respite for our carers who are nearly driven to desperation for some kind of respite from the never ceasing chore of caring for those who are disabled or autistic. Our hospitals especially here in Queensland have emergency trolleys backed up in hospitals because of the lack of funds that the government has to put into more facilities. Still we provide all this aid to foreign countries who only hate and demand more. I think those who send money to these countries while our own people have need have more the light of patronising idealism burning in their eyes than any kind of compassion. Or the light of blazing misguided religious zealism. It's like having a child at home who desperately needs help but is ignored while the mother or father run off helping everybody but their own child in the name of charity. There is something cold and unfeeling about that. Posted by CHERFUL, Saturday, 17 April 2010 12:01:30 AM
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Lets face it Cherful you like pretending that Australia is so important to other countries because it makes you feel important. Thats sad.
India and China don't need Australian aid. Neither does Japan. Thats over 2.5 billion people who don't need us. But we need Indian, Chinese and Japanese money. How does that make you feel? Not so smug now are you? At any rate, this thread is about the media not foreign aid. Try and stay on topic if you can. And white people didn't invent the media. Other cultures were reading and writing long before we were. Posted by jjplug, Saturday, 17 April 2010 12:09:37 PM
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Not true jjplug, civilisation, writing, organised religion, technology spread South from the Caucasus not North from the Middle East.
There are temples being unearthed in Turkey and the Caucusus that date from at least 10,000 years ago. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html Anyone who still promotes the idea that White people lived in caves while civilisation flowered elsewhere is just plain wrong, the Greeks, Persians, Hittites,Scythians,Hyksos,Armenians,Mycene and so on were WHITE.The Turkic people's and their decendents who now form the bulk of middle Easterners were much later arrivals. The word Aryan is out of fashion now because of Hitler but Aryan culture is Indo Persian culture, the cultures of the East and Egypt which while developing later than the Caucasians were heavily influenced on all levels by the Aryans.The great cultural fusions of, Turkic,Asian and Aryan cultures led to the world we live in today, not some farcical "out of Africa" or "Everything was invented in the middle east" confection.We never were Africans and Were not just "Faded Black People", these assertions are simply LIES. "Master Race" means First Race or Blueprint Race in any context outside hysterical Leftist Circles. Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Saturday, 17 April 2010 1:15:51 PM
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The only Robbie Williams lyric I know of is appropriately enough,"Let me entertain you", I'm not really a fan, I tend more to the Neo Folk, Americana and Bluegrass styles of music.
I've used a quote from one M.K.Gandhi a few times in this discourse, is that what you mean? Anyway now that we've booted out the "You and me baby aint nothin' but mammals" crowd maybe we can go back to a serious critique of the article. What we have to appreciate is that the author is paid to dispense information of this type, he earns his living by promoting a certain set of opinions or he's out of a job. Most of these writers and academics have no other career prospects, if they don't write they don't eat, it doesn't even matter if what they write is a load of old Rhubarb, in most cases the only people who read it would have been trained at university to agree with him. That's the only point to a humanities course after all, to create compliant, Politically Correct "believers" just like an old style seminary. In truth if we wanted to show an accurate picture of racial Australia in the media for every ten people depicted nine would be Caucasian and you'd have to choose between an Indigenous person or a non White or "migrant" for the tenth spot. Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Saturday, 17 April 2010 1:33:25 PM
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Dear Unemployed and Irrelevant of Melbourne,
The original aryans weren't white. Dont think the Greeks, Persians, Hittites,Scythians etc thought of themselves as white. India and China had pretty rocking civilisations in ancient times too. Still I'm not sure what all the supremacist propaganda has to do with the original article. Asians aren't white but they were reading and writing before we were. And if you went and got ten people in Oz five of them might be Anglo's, two would be Asians, two would be Greek or Italian and one would be Indigenous or from somewhere else. But none of them would be buying the racist bs that you've been peddling. Posted by jjplug, Saturday, 17 April 2010 3:27:50 PM
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