Poor poor old relevance challenged Bruce :)

"I'm feeling abit out of the loop.. aaah..I have it.. a quickie 'Aussies are racist' rant on OLO...that'll fix it."

Bruce says:

//Officially South Africa is home to around 2 million refugees; unofficially the figure is closer to 10 million. These other Africans are discriminated against. In a country where the Black rate of unemployment is 35/40 per cent, resentment has coalesced into violence against outsiders, who are seen to have taken jobs from locals.//

"seen to have" ? ? ? ur kidding right ?

Then.. to our stunned amazement... this same Bruce says:

//And worse, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has vilified Afghan asylum seekers saying, even before their claims were heard, that he did not believe them. Incredibly, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, he declared that the situation in Afghanistan was improving and conditions right for their return. That is base racism.//

Umm...so... Bruce apparently agrees that Black Racism is fine.. as long as you can see it clearly.. ok..check.

BUT..oooooh dear.. White Aussie 'racism' as expressed by our Prime Minister, who, by the way has access to information a heck of a lot better and up to date than brother Bruce's.. is eeeeevil! -check again.

Black Racism...ok
White RAcism...evil.

But poor Bruce.. the PM's decision is not even 'racist' it's "POLITICAL" and has nothing to do with 'race'..but a lot to do with err..controlling our borders SUCH that.. WEEEEEE..don't end up with 10,000,000 reffo's fighting for every job at Kenworth or Beurepaires.

I wonder if it occurs to Bruce that the "unofficially it's 10 million" is because of POOR Border protection ?

Like I said.. a good ol "Aussies-R-Racist' rant might make Bruce feel more relevant..but only to a small bunch of loony watermelons I feel.

Racist is such a harsh term and always bring the same response. Australians are offended by the inference as we have a long and proud record of kind and loving inclusion of all. For example,
The treatment of the Chinese on the gold fields.
The murder of the Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples.
The white Australia policy
Children over board
Cronulla Riots
The intervention.
Yes i know, "but,but,but". We were slowly starting to make ground on this subject in the 80's but the painful nationalism that John Howard sold as patriotism has set us back a long way. Why if these boat people are such dangerous vermin are we not all communists after we let all those Vietnamese into the country in the 70's. Surely they were just que jumping terrorists looking to take over our happy all embracing family.
OK, it is not that we are racists, but there are issues that we need to be honest with ourselves about and we have a bad habit of denying that we have an issue to deal with here. Admitting the problem is the first step to redemption.

"Ginx, I'm assuming that you didn't bother reading anybody's posts before you..........."

Thanks Oto, -you've given me an opportunity to explain what I meant.

The acknowledgment of racism in Australia is something that may well have been acknowledged by one? poster;-it doesn't make a damn bit of difference does it?

That's the relevant thing for me. I knew that Bruce Haigh's article would be dismissed/ridiculed...(add your adjective): HERE.

The man himself would be attacked. his credibility; his veracity. And it would be done by the same people, as it always is.

Tanveer has just copped it. Hardly par for the course from those who acknowledge racism..?

If it IS acknowledged-why are the usual still getting their Y's in such a knot?

Not to worry, there are still those who will do their best to counter this as you can see-,but it IS a tedious and repetitive exercise you know. Needs must I suppose.
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Aaaah..that feels better.. a good hit of Ginxoin...intravenously injected of course :)

Nairbe mate.. just a point on the White Australia policy.

It could just as well have been the 'black' Australia policy, or..the 'Slant eyed' Australia policy.. it was a matter of trying to minimuze cultural/racial clashes by maintaining a level of cultural/racial homogeneity.

Sheesh..if we already had the leftovers of the Catholic/Protestant history in our white mob.. does anyone think it would be 'improved' by bringing in heaps of other 'brand x' histories?

I find it astounding that the list of

//'Thanks to Bruce Haigh for not letting the sewer rats think they have the weight of public opinion on their side.//

types... especially the esteemed author of that little polite quote :)... appear to believe, contrary to every bit of education they claim to have had..and every bit of BLARING GLARING evidence from the world around us.... that 'tribalism' stops at Australia's borders and people are somehow magically 'born again' when they reach Australia.

There's a word for that :) Starts with "M" and ends with "N"

*I see it all nowwwww..yes...I see it.. I will now forget that I'm Croat and what the Serbs did to us....yep.. it's gone... 4eva*

.....*poof*...gone.

and so it goes :

G'day all, & GINX...

It's always interesting when denizens of this Forum like Ginx, try vainly to debase others by engaging in commentary of a kind that seeks to be facetious and wry.

Though often enough, whilst he/she exercises the same ol' tautology, there appears to be some incertitude apropos what exactly, Ginx is endeavouring to dispute and convey ?

In some measure I'm poorly educated and somewhat of a dullard. Nevertheless, I do know what I believe. I also know what I am, and what I'm not ? Even so, a few who submit material to both this Forum and OLO, seem to experience difficulty as to what they actually believe and subscribe to.

I guess there is an upside to being a 'dullard' - there's no dubiety as to one's identity or convictions ? Yet, I met this bloke (a stranger) on the first ANZAC day that I had marched. He said to me, only the stupid ever go to war ! Emmmmmm ?

Cheers...Sung Wu.