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Australia racist? Well, der! : Comments

By Bill Collopy, published 30/8/2010

Australians like to think we left xenophobia behind with the days when we couldn't buy bok choy at the supermarket.

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No comment.
Posted by CJ Morgan, Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:06:29 PM
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To the moderator. Congratulations on your contributions to internet censorship. I won't be bothering to post here again. Truly pathetic.
Posted by vkcr10vixn, Friday, 3 September 2010 12:51:56 AM
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Wobbles.."Aboriginal=black" "European=white"

It's not rocket science mate.

Remember "walks like... has bill like.. had feathers like...goes quack quack..has webbed feet".... hmmm might just be.. a duck :)

Just because great great granny had a cousin who has a molecule or 2 of indigenous blood..does not make me an aboriginal.

I'm afraid a lot of common sense is lacking here. If Wyatt is more white than black.. and if he has 50% European blood..he is as much European as he is Aboriginal. So...why the fuss ?

Why does he not just call him self "mixed race" like any normal person with mixed race heritage would ?
Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Friday, 3 September 2010 5:59:42 AM
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Indeed, Boaz. Why not 'half-caste', 'quadroon' or 'octoroon'?

Well, der!
Posted by CJ Morgan, Friday, 3 September 2010 8:18:16 AM
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If someone says they're Aboriginal, that's what they are.
If someone says they're White then that's what they are.
We don't ask because Race isn't all about genetics, people who use that line of reasoning usually fall flat on their face under any serious scrutiny.
We had a Genocide by racial assimilation in this country so those questions are redundant anyway, most Whites and most Aboriginals are genetically related on some level so any distinction comes down to identity.
These misunderstandings never occur in real life, if you have any doubts within the first 60 seconds of meeting someone, then the person probably isn't what you think they are based on appearances.
I know when I'm talking to a White person just as I know when I'm talking to an Aboriginal, that's what racialism does, it changes the way you think, the way you speak and the way you relate to people.
Furthermore nobody who has mixed ancestry is going to say that they're White, it almost never happens because there's no value in it anymore.
Anyone who claims Whiteness is automatically one of two things, a self hater prostrate before the god of political correctness or a wicked White supremacist, there's no middle ground.
The terms Aussie or Australian don't imply Whiteness they're words used to promote assimilation, "the fair go" and "Mateship", to use them is to deny one's race and take on a civic identity, to be an "Aussie" means you have no race and no history.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 3 September 2010 2:26:32 PM
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JoM

"I know when I'm talking to a White person just as I know when I'm talking to an Aboriginal, that's what racialism does, it changes the way you think, the way you speak and the way you relate to people."

So you treat people according to what race you think they are?
Posted by Johnny Rotten, Friday, 3 September 2010 3:45:44 PM
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