Here is a contradiction for you, antiseptic.

STREET LANGUAGE RULED TO BE NO RACIAL SLUR Kalgoorlie WA.
By Paige Taylor
September 15, 2006 01:00am

An Aboriginal girl who kicked a woman and called her a "white slut" did not engage in racial vilification because the slur was common street language.

A magistrate from the West Australian goldfields threw out a landmark race-hate charge yesterday against the 16-year-old, saying the slur against Kalgoorlie woman Melissa Blackney was "the patois of the street".

Dr Auty found that the girl's one-off slur in a heated confrontation did not constitute "serious, substantial or severe" racial harassment as legally defined.

Magistrate Kate Auty sentenced the girl to four months of intensive supervision, including 60 hours of community service, for kicking Ms Blackney during the April attack.

The court heard that Ms Blackney confronted the girl and three others after she was awoken in her car by the sound of a rock denting the paintwork.

Auty also did not accept the evidence of prosecution witness Ruben Brockman, who the prosecution did not charge with assault even though he was implicated in the attack.

A resident claimed to have seen Mr Brockman kicking Ms Blackney while she lay on the ground.
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It is a good thing Ms Blackley did not call the aboriginal offender a "coon" or one suspects the magistrate would not have considered that "street Patois." And somebody would now be writing an article on OLO over Ms. Brockley's "unconscious racism."

LEGO, no contradiction at all. The actual harm was the rock, the name-calling was easily ignored as something that is commonly heard on the streets of Kalgoorlie. I've experienced it there myself and I shrugged it off.

The fact is that Aboriginal people do genuinely loathe whites. That's no surprise. What should be thought about is how to address that, especially how to remove the intermediaries who reinforce it as a source of their own power.

One of the things about societies is that they are composed of a completely new population over time. Every single person alive today will be dead in around 100 years and there is nobody alive today who was alive much beyond 100 years ago. for the Aboriginal community tht would be more like 70 years in each case. That means that it is possible to take a long view, rather than trying to change the attitudes of everyone all at once. We can only hope.

What's the bet our 'racially sensitive' media like ABC and like minded, especially 'Indigenous', politicians will ignore this story?

Shame on that magistrate. The offender calling the victim "White" slut can only be defined as a racist remark.

If 'white slut' is the patois of the streets then so would be 'n1gger slut' or 'black cxxt' or any number of derogatory terms.

Wrong on all levels ...

Decided to google that story. Neglected to notice the date on LEGO's post. This occurred in 2006 so is rather historical. My bad.

Thinking however that such a decision by a magistrate would constitute a legal precedent.

So 'common street language' was the benchmark for that magistrate to dismiss the remark, "white slut" delivered in the process of a aggravated assault and find the aggressor's one-off slur in a heated confrontation did not constitute "serious, substantial or severe" racial harassment as legally defined.

I'm wondering how as a comparision, the football park heckle "ape" against a large hairy faced AFL player measures up?

The difference is that we really don't care if someone uses our race as a perjorative, because we don't see being "white" as defining us, it's just a skin pigmentation. Besides, most white people regard their personal success as due to their personal qualities rather than any shared one.

Aborigines do often take their skin colour as defining them. I wonder how much the arrival of black Africans has affected Aboriginal identity? I can see how resentment at perceived better treatment could be driven. They are also strongly defensive, because they know their society is not doing well.

That leads to a successful Aboriginal man taking offence at a silly gibe from a child because he interprets it as racially based. Let's be fair though, so did the woman in Kal. I doubt the child in Goodes's case would have been found guilty in a court either.

The problem is the kneejerking from the media. They need to be given a refresher on journalistic ethics.

The fundamental problem with the anti racist position, is that it basically saying that there should be no human hostility at all. Everybody must be nice to everybody else. Having a poor opinion about other people is wrong, and expressing that poor opinion is illegal.

The term "racism" once meant a specific ideology, that which assumed that white people were more evolutionary advanced than other races. The ideology was used by the Nazis to justify their extermination of "the Jewish race". But whereas Jews are primarily of the semitic race, there are blond and red haired Jews, so the word "racism" can be used to include contempt of a religion. And such a definition is in everyday use.

How realistic can it be for people of one religion to not have contempt for the people of another, when it is very common for their own God's to express contempt for the people of other religions? The common God of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims is a racist who has declared to his different faiths that he will practice post mortem segregation in heaven, and commit unspeakable tortures for an unspecified length of time on any person who did not guess which religion was the correct one.

If it is a psychological imperative that human beings must form self protecting groups, then it is unrealistic to think that those groups will not compete with each other for resources and become mutually hostile to each other. You may be able to convince groups that they should not be violent to each other and to be tolerant of each other, but tolerance does not equate to acceptance.

It is a cultural universal that people within groups are more accepting of people in other groups who's values, attitudes and behaviours most closely match their own. They will never accept people from an outgroup as being a part of their ingroup if the outgroups members have values, attitudes and behaviours diametrically opposed to their own. Group behaviour is a factor of group culture, and culture is most commonly associated with race and religion.