http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10541#173287

TillyJ, Rubbish, Rubbish, Rubbish. The usual Loony, Left, Anti White Male, Diatribe delivered by a CARS, Communist, Anarchist, Radical, Socialist, who on this occasion happens to be female as well as foreign.

Multiculturalism was designed by the enemies of Western Democratic Culture to weaken & destroy it. Together with Fe"man"Nazism it was designed by our Communist enemies to simultaneously stop us breeding & import foreigners to take jobs from the few children, we have left.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236#

http://www.cruelhoax.ca/#top

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/01/2914561.htm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/camilla_cavendish/article7138520.ece

http://www.reich4.de/Begriffe/sittlichkeit/?lang=en

http://www.henrymakow.com/facebook.html

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10541#173293

Kenny, They will never stop blaming you for everything & anything, victim culture, is what it is all about.

Multiculturalism, in some day dream world, might have some possibility of working, but the principle purpose, as it was with Fe"Man"Nazism, is to create competition for jobs & bankrupt our economy. Between 1945 & 1965 the gap between rich & poor was smaller. Now it is wider as a direct result of the ism's.

There are Aussies out there homeless &/or waiting for medical treatment, while Islamic immigrants are in 3 star motels or empty hospital buildings.

There are female, left wing, social workers from MICAH, out there, right now, rigging the stats on homelessness, in the lead up to the election.

The end game of the ism's is to create crime waves, followed by ever tighter, stronger, Laurenorder campaigns, leading to George Orwell's "1984" "Big Sista" nightmare a UN, NWO, 4th Reich.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10541#173296

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10541#173303

Proxy & Leigh, i see you guys have worked it out. These Loony, Left, wing nuts, have been going to all the worlds worst war zones to import an equal number of combatants from all sides of the conflict.

Then wonder why we are getting brawls, riots, at soccer matches.

Then mutter darkly about racial vilification laws when we complain about depleting government services, jobs, etc.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1052753/asylum-seeker-riot-leaves-three-injured

The Worst Racists are the Left Wing Nuts, they everybody white & male.

First, who cares what Robin Williams says?

This article appears rather tendentious,it assumes that racist attitudes originate from Anglo-Australians and then(naturally) the author assumes the moral high ground.Some examples of fallacious arguments-

"...racism in Australia mainly originates from racism against Aboriginal Australians" No,it has many origins,it's often brought to Australia by immigrants of (non-Anglo) ethnic origins.

"...some people purport to be opposing immigration on the grounds of economic and environmental reasons" Well,some might have a hidden agenda,however,there are sound economic and environmental arguments against high immigration rates and they have been presented on this site.

Islam is a religion not a race and attempts to equate disdain for Islamic superstitions with racism are dishonest.
Where's the evidence that multiculturalism challenges racism,what is 'multiculturalism' anyway? To what degree does the push for multiculturalism reflect racist attitudes within immigrant groups?

As to the treatment of indigenous people, I don't think I'd want to be an Armenian or Kurd in Turkey. The Turks conquered Anatolia from the Byzantines and Turkey's minority ethnic groups are still opressed,1000 years later--remember the Armenian genocide? Slow progress indeed,I hope indigenous Australians won't have to wait that long for justice.

Yes, I am probably a red neck now. I prided myself in being liberal accomodating and broadminded till the Australian's handling of the boat people showed another side of my previously held self-image.
I now dont give a damn what you say about me being a red neck. I only want my country emptied of these muscling into my country with their dirty tea cloth head gear and hated burquas and hijabs. God, how i hate them.
socratease

This explains better than anything I can say about Australian racism. In 2005 Eberhard and I were awarded the Queensland Multicultural Award for Small Business, the first year that this award was given out.

Another interesting article from Alice Aslan, eliciting some predictable responses from the usual suspects.

Aslan is quite correct that not all Australians are racists or "rednecks", as Williams put it. Far from it, of course, but there clearly remains a sizeable proportion of the population who are. They are usually the ones who bleat loudest about the supposed evils of multiculturalism.

She is also correct that the template for Australian racism is that which is still far too commonly directed at Indigenous people. That, along with the dreaded 'Yellow Peril' is where the infamous White Australia policy came from. The sentiment still expressed by some that 'Anglo-Australians' are somehow more Australian than non-Anglo (or worse, non-'white') immigrants derives from this cultural tradition.

Of course, such blatantly racist sentiments are generally unacceptable in polite company these days, so traditional Australian racism has morphed into the appalling Islamophobia we see expressed all too often in forums like this. The racists will claim that because Islam is a religion rather than a 'race', their bigotry isn't racism, but this is a disingenuous rationalisation at best.

She is also quite correct that "multiculturalism is still the best social and political system for societies based on migration since it provides institutional support to challenge racism". Australian society has been based on migration since 1788. Unfortunately, since about the middle of the 19th century "Anglo" Australians have been trying to maintain their dominance of the society, initially overtly but increasingly covertly since World War 2.

Equally unfortunately, the more they see their cultural hegemony 'threatened', the nastier and shriller they become. I feel sorry for them, because the days of Australia being an Antipodean outpost of 'White' culture are well and truly over.

I read the article with high hopes and was disappointed. Why do people feel the need to raise such issues without ever bringing anything new to the table? Aslan starts out promisingly, suggesting that we need to take the 'us and them' attitude away before we can progress. She then perpetuates the 'us and them' attitude by exploring only one kind of racism: the racism that DOES exist among much of the Anglo community. In her representation, it is a one-way stream of racism, with the whitefellas dishing out hate on everybody else. The same old arguments that have taken us nowhere several times before.

If she is suggesting that racism is, in fact, a two-way street (and if she is suggesting this, she has hidden the suggestion very well), then she is perpetuating the racism by assuming that the whitefellas are the 'bigger people' and should be the proactive ones who stop the racism.

Finally, an argument I found absurd was that the redneck Australians would take the time out to warn the migrant invaders about aborigines and, in doing so, spread their racism. Why would such a redneck, bogan group do such a thing? There are, I suspect, two causes for the spread of anti-aboriginal sentiment to immigrants:

1) Word of mouth. We tell people not to go up Flinders Mall in Townsville (for example) after the shops shut, because it can be dangerous and particularly unpleasant. Which it is.

2) First-hand experience. The immigrants venture up Flinders Mall, step on broken glass, get involved in domestics and have their wallets stolen.

Neither involves any signs of a reddened neck.