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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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Stevenimyer, your question is silly. Why? The answer depends on what happens in the future.

For example, the Chinese assimilate fairly well here and are good citizens. But if China replaces America as the world's dominant, aggressive imperial power then Australians, being generally pro-American, could turn on people of Chinese origin.
Posted by David G, Monday, 30 August 2010 1:33:35 PM
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Can I please ask that someone explain to me how stating “Australian’s are racist” is not in and of itself, racist?
Posted by vkcr10vixn, Monday, 30 August 2010 2:03:23 PM
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A big issue in Australia like racism deserves a painstaking analysis to determine the causes on a social level;
Sadly, this "article" does no such thing- instead it's the usual collage of ignorant lazy speculation, sanctimonious assumptions, a few stupid entries that try to be witty or clever, a pointless 'history-for-dummies' that doesn't really relate, and the assumption that 'racism' is a purely stand-alone discourse. There must be windows document-wizard programs that can do this kind of thing now. Just enter your subject, and a talking paperclip will appear and ask if you would like to insert analogies to nazis, yugoslavs, convicts, turn-of-the-century racism or all of the above?

Why did OLO accept this article? It would be more at home in a celebrity gossip magazine or some other politically-challenged entertainment piece. By treating it like a socio/political article, it only helps maintain the awful spin culture where people would rather vent stereotypes and uninformed personal pet-theories than, you know, actually try to figure out what the problem is.

I might as well have read an article by Runner.
Posted by King Hazza, Monday, 30 August 2010 2:21:13 PM
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Such education, advocacy and preaching, about racial tolerance is pretty meaningless whilst Australian Parliament reserves its right to segregate, treat differently, even divide Australian families, on basis of racial testing.

Why is such necessary ?

Whilst our politicians and "fellow travelers" need retain they are busy designing, passing, and enforcing policies which depend upon racial determinations.

Why expect anything other than racism as the result ?

Exemptions from our anti-racism legislations are our problem.

Do we require victims of rape, assault or theft to accept the same rape, assault or theft must continue in order to obtain compensatio
Posted by polpak, Monday, 30 August 2010 3:38:14 PM
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I suppose now that the lies pushed by the media about whites bashing Indians have come to light the redefining of a racist will continue. Anyone seeing the stupidity of not selecting who should come to this country to protect our freedoms will be labeled racist. The funding of these multi cultural groups relies on keeping many of us labelled racist. Who really cares what they think. They are not interested in truth. Look at who is throwing dirt on our first aboriginal elected to the lower house. It would be very uncomfortable for those with leftist dogma to have these racist identified.
Posted by runner, Monday, 30 August 2010 3:39:47 PM
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Are we a racist society?
What a "der" question!!
We are NOT!!
Ofcourse we are not all squeaky clean. because we have some racists amongst us and ofcourse we have some racist jokes cracked by those who are not racist and although we have been provoked into racist attitudes which otherwise we wouldnt have been all this does not make Australia a racist country.
If you apply the criteria against us which is or should be applied against every other country on the face of the globe there wouldnt be a single country that would come out without a blemish.
Speaking personally let me confess that I have enjoyed so-called racist jokes that have come across on my computer, others I have swapped in pubs and in the work place and I have unashamedly enjoyed all of them. I have endured and sometimes laughed when jokes have been cracked at my expense. So what?
Lets not make hypocrites of ourselves and pretend we are as pure as a sheet of driven snow.
We are at our so-called racist worst when a community plans to take over our country and change the political nature of Australia, when they seek to interfere with our life style, then YES, we tend to get testy.Me first! To put it MILDLY!

socratease
Posted by socratease, Monday, 30 August 2010 4:09:41 PM
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