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Psychological harm, anti-vaccination and the Racial Discrimination Act : Comments
By Tanveer Ahmed, published 9/4/2014But at what point should the special treatment of race pass? Australia has been among the most successful and cohesive multicultural societies for several decades.
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And I can add, a very well constructed bill of irrevocable rights, might deal with some of the more knotty problems, that seem to be emerging around the idea of free speech.
Meaning, I ought to be able to say anything at all about you, however demeaning, always providing, I can prove both truth and accuracy, and never ever intentional harm.
True justice and the inherent truth, are color, gender and socially blind!
As somebody I both respect and admire once said, it is not the color of a man's skin that matters, but the content of his character. And went on to say his, I have a dream speech.
As for the young Lady who verbally abused Adam Goode?
Well everyone learns their prejudices at their parent's knees; and she may well have grown up in a household, where racial vilification was seen as normal; and practiced daily?
Clearly there is a place for educating those who both teach and practice it, with the shoe on the other foot so to speak, just enough to allow them to feel just how hurtful it can be?
Like, taking ordinary decent Germans into the camps, if only to make them face the very truth they had been denying, as if what was being done or said in their name, was literally impossible!
Bring on a bill of irrevocable rights!
And it ought to include a right by the majority, to not include kids in public education or in other public forums, whose ignorant parents have refused to vaccinate, on the grounds of something a proven fraudster may have fallaciously claimed, along with her bogus accreditation?
Along with rights, there also exists, responsibilities!
Rhrosty.