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Islamophobia in Australia: the response of the academy : Comments
By Jake Lynch, published 20/3/2019Researchers should be able to furnish us with evidence about where Islamophobia 'comes from'; what it consists of; how it is promulgated and spread, by whom and for what ends.
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I had always assumed that you were actually Alexandra Occasio-Cortez, but now you tell me you are an Australian? Whatever, I assume ( a bit of stereotyping here) that you are the daughter of the middle class and went to some posh ladies college? You didn't just get born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you probably got the whole silver service. Insulated from the harsh realities of life, you live in some leafy area where the local comparatively wealthy ethnics are house trained, and you think that your suburb is a microcosm of the whole planet? You joined the public service and entered the leftist thought bubble, which holds that all you have to do to solve every human problem is to raise more taxes and spend more on social services.
It has been noted, Foxy, that those who are the most enamoured of multiculturalism, are the ones who live the furthest away from it's negative consequences. I don't know where you live in Sydney, perhaps it is East Killara or Beecroft? Where the upper bourgeoisie populations are almost 100% white, and where "progress" (actually anti progress) associations are full of influential people who make certain that no blocks of flats appear in their suburbs?
Or perhaps Bondi or Manly? Both of which are fighting tooth and nail to prevent suburban rail extensions into "their" suburbs, because they don't want trains to bring the riff raff into "their" trendy elitist areas. "Intelligent" people may welcome "change", but not in their own suburbs. Chardonnay sucking elitists may welcome "refugees", as long as the government settles them in bogan areas. Wherever you live in Sydney, Foxy, you probably think that all human civilisation ends at the Gladesville bridge? You couldn't find Blacktown or Claymore without a GPS.
If you lived in Melbourne, I'll bet it wasn't Narre Warren or Thomastown? I'll bet there isn't a Somali or a Sudanese within ten miles of you