o sung wu. I repeat, first read the article by L. Maher on 18C in On Line Opinion 6/5/14, and if you can understand it, we will take the debate from there.

Hi there LESLIE...

I would prefer we had the debate ! Anyhow, I believe that you've more than adequately illustrated your position on this matter. Therefore I'll excuse myself, and hope to meet you again adversarially, on another appropriate topic LESLIE ?

Chek Ling –

This shows the selfishness and biased focus of many newer Australians and the left support it fully an believe it themselves – show me any society back a century or more in history that would not and did not act in an unfriendly, suspicious and often unfair and bigoted way to outsiders of all sorts.

In fact, show me JUST ONE non-western nation TODAY in “modern times” which is not STILL practising in this way towards foreigners and outsiders.

Further, considering that only western societies like Australia have been ever and at all in the entirety of history of people and civilization etc., to even think to begin to “TALK” and also to start to encode it in “LAW” etc. such notions like equality, anti-racism, anti-discrimination and basic human rights and decency etc., also laws preventing a certain outright abuse and misuse of power over any person [worker rights], that it was they and specifically the Anglo nations to first outlaw slavery and stop it and it is only western nations today who try to pressure other nations into adopting similar human rights standards . . .

. . . .why has this person [I believe that his Chinese identity makes this action much, much, much worse] felt ok to attack it as though the society he attacks exists in some vacuum, and as if the rest of the world much much worse than Australia in the regards of treatement of people etc. is non-existent.

Worse and more telling to me of the author's gravely selfish, bullying and even racist demeanour, is how he is speaking about so-called racism and mistreatment of Chinese Australians by white Aussies.

I wonder whether CHEK LING ever spares a thought for the extreme oppressions and slavery of the hundreds of millions of poor in China where he says he comes from, and for the extreme fear of "foreigners" and any "outsiders" that pervades all levels of Chinese society and culture and controls the government policy.

Matthew S

Of course CHEK LING does not think of any of those things. CHEK LING is not even from China, but is from Sarawak, but still calling himslf Chinese. He has probably never even been to China, whose population is legendary for their mistrust and suspicion of anyone 'foreign'. How much more racist can you get than that?