Binoy, feel free to critique my written pieces, like many others do.

No doubt you know your stuff, but I find most of your articles mostly a rehash of the news that has already been blurted out all over the press in the days before.

Given you are an academic, how about pieces that take more time to research, to reflect your skills and intellect, that offer an overview of each issue and some realistic policy offering that can help readers understand it and what can be done to resolve it.

Cheers,

Dr C

I think it's better police dress in plain clothes.

Dan

Funny, but not funny, how all those journalists wrote that the COVID-19 Crisis would have the long term effect of BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER in a more considerate way.

Resumption of regular race riots in the US [1] and now even in France [2] proves otherwise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States#Since_1988

[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/paris-police-brutality-protest-turns-violent-200602195209447.html

The unlawful killing of a man by a police officer was always going to be dealt with by the forces of law and order. But, the incident has been used by Antifa and other criminal thugs for anarchy, rioting and looting. Four more people have been killed. Half-wits are blaming Donald Trump. And Leftist commentators and brainless posters are really enjoying the opportunity to spew their hatred of America.

Well, folks, might always wins. No country can allow mobs to dictate policy, and America must do whatever is needed to put to put the lunatics down.

Sorry, most of the protestors on the street are not radicals.

Some on here seem to repeat what Trump says. They actually need to look at a variety of news sources.

The reality is that people all over the world are disgusted by what happened, but few would support violent protest.

The Western world seems to be infested with academics and media reporters like Binoy Kampmark, who want to politicise every western social problem in existence as being a product of white racism versus minority victimisation. Every article, like this one, they pen is framed in this way. It is as if they realise that with the declining white birth rates within white countries, and the surging population growth of minorities in western countries (either through immigration or birth rate differentials), the time to put the boot into white people and curry favour with the soon to be majority minorities is now.

A white police officer in the USA, through total stupidity appears to have unintentionally killed a helpless and already restrained arrestee. He will be dealt with by the US Justice system. But that is not enough for those who seek to undermine the societies they often chose to live in by pretending to be the champions of minorities against white oppression.

The images of middle class socialists and imported people from dysfunctional societies demonstrating in western capitals, and minorities rioting, looting, and burning buildings in the USA, clearly displays that white baiting in the west has gone too far. The entire western world is now seeing a clear view of the future if we continue to import third world people into first world white western societies. My prediction is, that white people will now become more racist as they fear for their children's future, from the violent ethnic minorities they so stupidly allowed to immigrate into their societies.

The Asians must be laughing their heads of at the entire western world. It will be the Asian Century, unless the West gets over it's stupid obsession with racism and starts realising that a bit of racism to defend your country and your values is no bad thing. There is no multiculturalism in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, or China. They know that unity is strength, and diversity is death

Hi ttbn

Where ya say "Well, folks, might always wins. No country can allow mobs to dictate policy, and America must do whatever is needed to put to put the lunatics down."

Yeah. After all "God, Guns and Guts Made America Great" http://www.davegranlund.com/cartoons/wp-content/uploads/Military-option-demonstrations.png

or try http://www.davegranlund.com/cartoons/wp-content/uploads/Race-riots-and-Trump.png

Lego, interesting perspective.

While I don't agree with you about mono-culturalism, you raise points that Binoy should be talking about rather than offering a biased view that simply rehashes aspects of the news in accordance to his views and values.

An academic or any student of life, if he or she wants to talk about race and culture, needs to actually assess it in accordance to all of the issues that confront a society.

I suspect it is all too hard for many of them.

LEGO,

" …. the time to put the boot into white people and curry favour with the soon to be majority minorities is now".

Exactly. Similar to what I said in the general forum on the subject. There, I suggested that they were wasting their time because we all look the same to non-whites, and wet whites thinking their self-hatred will help them out will be treated the same way as those of us whom they childishly call 'racists'.

It's no wonder that the Chinese Communist Party thinks the West will be a pushover, with all the Fifth Columnists and anarchists paving the way for them. The African-Americans should look out though. They carry on about racism, but they haven't seen anything until they encounter the Chinese brand of it. Chinese school children are taught that black people stink and are animals. I've just finished a book describing the experiences of an African-American in China, who couldn't go anywhere without getting the 'you stink' sign from Chinese kids.

hello Binoy

I don't know where exactly your commentary is sourced but I suggest you might read a little more widely.

I've seen extensive commentary when State Governors (mostly Democratic) are critical of City Administration's (mostly Democratic) lacking in directions to their police forces.

I've seen reports of the US President offer use of extra National Guardsmen to quell the rioting and destruction.

I've seen on tv State Governors offer the use of these forces to assist police.

From all sources I've seen peaceful protests reported everywhere in thousands of US cities ... during daylight hours. Thousands of people ... where there has been no violence. Here there is no despair, looting nor shooting.

I've seen violent rioting and looting and shootings, at police, in a comparative handful of the thousands of US cities.

Washington was one. The violent rioting and looting was quickly quelled by the US President's security forces. Peaceful protests continue during daylight hours.

Curfew's have been imposed in some cities. There are fewer and fewer cities reporting rioting. Most of these cities still have peaceful protests.

I've seen many reports of the activities of Antifa in nearly all of the riots.
I've seen reports the money backing this organisation and others like them is being traced back to the anti America, anti capitalism billionaire George Soros.
I've seen calls for Soros's deportation to Israel.

I've seen the US President threaten to call in the military.

What I've seen is widespread protests of many Americans united in sadness.
What I've seen is, by comparison, a small group of anacharistand funded by George Soros take advantage if this sadness and hideously riot, loot, destroy and shoot.

That is quite a bit different from the anti American generalisations you've spouted.

Tell me, what is China's death rate? What is that to be found? I can't find anything other than WHO figures. lol

Binoy as an academic you would make a great propagandist.

The most pathetic thing about all of this is the ABC and Australian yobbos trying to beat up non-existent problems here by suggesting that there is a parallel with what goes on in the US with Aboriginal-identifiers in Australia.

I'm not sure the knelling officer knew what he was doing and had done numerous times before? Would lead to this tragedy, let alone alleged race riots. And because this could be the case, should lead to his immediate dismissal!

Donald instructed his deplorables to take to the streets! And as they mixed and mingled with the demonstrators, incited violence?

As for the looters? Opportunistic criminals just doing what hoods from the hood do, take advantage of the melee to just take what they want from whoever and whatever.

Rioting in the streets, not helping any cause and no amount of unrequited anger is going to undo the harm or resurrect the dead man!

If those who want justice, a change for the better? Then instead of tearing down or burning and looting even as the unemployment numbers reach depression era numbers!

Need to save their ammunition and channel their rage for a time when it will count! On election day when instead of mindless rage, they can remove the despot by showing up at the polls to remove the rot! And like a rotten fish, this particular rot started at the top? And made its way to the Senate?

Go home and wait for polling day! Then queue for as long as you have to even if it is snowing, raining or blowing a gale!

And vote for real change and real reform from the streets where you live to wall street! And if you don't get it? Then make sure that the incumbents who refuse to act, regardless which side of the aisle or house they sit, do not ever get your vote again, regardless of whatever promise or bribe they extend!

If your vote can be bought? Then you are also part of the problem and should reap the whirlwind you helped create!
Alan B.

To Chris Lewis.

If Australia had kept the White Australia Policy, Australia would today be a much safer and probably more prosperous nation than it is today.

I can't think of any "benefits" of Multiculturalism, unless you think that these examples add to Australian cultural enrichment?

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews stating publically that "terrorism is part of contemporary Australia."

"Diversity bollards" all over our cities to prevent ordinary pedestrians from being mass murdered by "contemporary" Jihadis in heavy vehicles.

Machines in even regional airports which see right through passengers clothing in order to prevent underpants bombers from blowing airliners full of Australians out of the sky.

Armed guards outside of newspaper offices and Jewish schools. The fortification of every vital government department with steel gates and security guards.

70 Australian girls gang raped by Muslim race hate rape gangs in Sydney, at the time of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Demands by Muslims and their leaders for social exclusion in swimming pools, gender segregation, and exemptions from the common law.

The elected head of the "moderate" Australian Islamic Council telling Prime Minister Turnbull at an official social dinner that homosexuals should be executed.

Demands from "moderate" Muslim organisations for Sharia Law in Muslim suburbs, and exemptions for Muslims from voting, as democracy is "against Islam."

Child brides, forced marriages, and "honour" killings.

Specialist medical teams in Canturbury, Bankstown, and Fairfield hospitals to treat the consequences of female genital mutilation.

Attacks on churches and synagogues.

The refusal by Muslim drivers to allow blind people with seeing eye dogs or passengers carrying alcohol to enter their cabs.

Six Sydney schools in the "troubled" (an Education Department euphemism for "Muslim") Southwest of Sydney now have permanent security guards to protect teachers and students from violent students and parents. Relief teachers refusing to work in these "troubled" schools. High turnover rates of new teachers.

Australian soldiers, SES volunteers, ambulance drivers, and Fire Brigade officers advised to not wear their uniforms while not on duty to minimise the risk of being attacked and even beheaded.

Australian citizens being shot down on streets and in coffee shops.

continued.

African gangs in Dandenong out of control with the police advising residents to flee them on sight. While simultaneously, the myopic Victorian Premier, certain judges and senior Victorian police claim that there is no African elephant in the room.

Aborigines in North Queensland and NSW declaring their tribal lands to be "sovereign states ". "Aboriginal courts" handing out "aboriginal punishments" to "aboriginals"(including spearings) Aboriginal leaders demanding "aboriginal only" seats in Federal parliament after former Imam Sheik al Hilaly demanded the same thing for Muslims in the NSW State parliament.

Ethnic soccer clubs in Sydney being forced to change their ethnic descriptor names because soccer games in Sydney between ethnic rivals degenerated into full scale race riots.

Ethnic crime so bad that the Australian Bureau of Statistics was ordered not to keep any records on ethnic crime. But ABS statistics on "Incarcerated Prisoners by Country of Birth" clearly displayed that some ethnicities are very disproportionately represented in serious criminal behaviour.

The Australian Administrative Appeal Board Immigration routinely over riding the Immigration Minioster's deportation rulings and opposing the deportation of the worst types of foreign criminals, including murderers, rapists, child molesters, and gang members.

The severe curtailment of our most cherished civil liberties through terrorism legislation, including habeas corpus, and search and seizure by police without a judicial warrant of any person's motor vehicle or place of abode. Severe curtailment of freedom of speech through 18C.

Widespread rorting of visas, corruption charges within the Immigration Department, grossly underpaid and exploited workers in ethnic businesses labelled "systemic" by Alan Fels. Slavery and slumlords.

Foreign governments using their ethnic minorities within Australia to manipulate Australian governments and influence elections. The shameless pork barrelling of ethnic communities by Australian politicians in order to secure their collective votes.

State Police with sub machine guns and paratrooper boots looking more like storm troopers than traditional police.

White flight from multiculturalism causing monoculturalism in Australian city suburbs through ethnic ghettoisation.

So many illegal immigrants within Australia that advertisements directed at illegal immigrants within Australia being advertised in foreign newspapers.

Hi Lego,

So that's your Dystopian wish-list ? So that you can really crap yourself over how the world's gone to the dogs ? To find a cave and lock yourself away until everybody else has gone back to wherever ? I hope you have enough toilet paper :)

Isn't it fun to vent ? Hey, you and me could play-act those two old farts in the Muppets :)

My Irish ancestors (or at least friends and accomplices of them) were pretty enthusiastic about shootings and thieving, and bushranging, etc in the nineteenth century. Come to think of it, most of them (and my other Scottish and Welsh and Cornish ancestors) migrated out here as 7-year guests of the Crown for many of the reasons which you amply demonstrate.

So when has the world been any different ? Enjoy it while you can, like the rest of us.

Joe

Lego, without agreeing with all of your points, i share some of your concerns.

I dont have any problem with any nation not wanting people from certain backgrounds.

so, now i have said that, i am sure i too will be described as a racist.

I am not, but i think it would be fair to call me a cultural bigot, because there are some i am also concerned with.

But, i will never judge anyone by the colour of their skin, or by race.

i only judge them by their attachemnt to stupid ideas.

Chris,

Of course, as you say, when we welcome immigrants from wherever, we know they may - MAY - bring many of their stereotyped idiocies with them, that's par for the course.

Nobody's perfect. And certainly the motley of their ideologies and prejudices may not be to our liking. But that's what it means to be human, brilliant and idiotic, compassionate and pig-ignorant. Surely a democratic country like Australia is ideal ground for teasing out the contradictions and conflicts between that clash of ideas ?

There may even be English people who come, believing that they are in some way superior to others, such as Irish. Yes, they should be welcomed , and argued with, no matter how difficult and protracted, to put them right as to who is actually superior.

Joe

Chris,

Of course, we're getting off the track: Black Americans have been in America about as long as whites, and both a bit short of how long Native Americans have been there. And Hispanics, come to think of it.

So how much longer before whites who have held onto the reins of power for so long share them ? Isn't that what all this is about ?

So is Trumpf championing the ideals of equality for all Americans ? Or the rights of whites ?

Joe

Oh come on Joe.

We all know that a very large percentage of the cops in the US are African Americans.

They have just had an African American president, yes the worst one ever, but no white Republicans rioted.

We all know that there is a higher percentage of white deaths in custody in Oz, but all we ever hear about is black deaths in custody. I would love to see the statistics for white deaths in custody in the US. I'll bet quids it will be the same as here.

The problem is when the no-hopers in a country can point to a common denominator like dark skin, they always blame their lack of success on that, rather than on their lack of ability.

God I am sick of bleeding hearts.

Well, at least the rioters & looters aren't too worried about COVID-19, yet !

Hasbeen,

Maybe not really: African-Americans make up around 33 % of all Americans, but 60 % of the deaths at the hands of police (including African-American police officers).

Yes, in Australia, Indigenous people make up around 28 % of all people in custody, but only 23 % of deaths in custody.

Of course, they make up only maybe 2.5 - 3 % of the population of Australia, so there needs to be an explanation of that difference - do Indigenous people commit proportionally more offences warranting custody ? Given the high rate of foetal alcohol syndrome, especially in the north, which has terrible effects on behaviour from an early age, thaqt may be a major factor.

Joe

Onya, ttbn.

To Chris Lewis. Like so many white people today, you seem to be petrified of being called a racist. You claim that you "could be called a cultural bigot", which ignores the fact that race and culture are linked.

I was once an anti Apartheid demonstrator, who came to realise that those who claim to be anti racist were extremely racist towards white people. That led me to use critical thinking to examine the whole idea of whether racism is valid. My conclusion was, that the idea of races being equal is simply potty. And, everybody is racist to one degree or another. And, just like every other human vice, it cannot be simply categorised as the 8th Deadly Sin and supposedly expunged from human consciousness. Like every other human vice, it is the degree to which a person is racist which is the problem.

The white people in the USA and in Europe were conditioned to think that racism was so bad that they stopped fighting for the survival of their own race and culture. They are now looking at civil war between themselves and their imported minorities. On the subject of racism, a white man in the USA is 60 times more likely to be assaulted by a black man, than a black man is likely to be assaulted by a white man. A white woman is 200 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a black man, than a black woman is likely to be sexually assaulted by a white man.

Which race is the more racist?

London, the safest city in the world, now, through third world immigration, has a homicide rate greater than New York. It is time that the white race stopped cringing about being called "racists" and realised that a bit of racism to protect their own communities is no bad thing. And that so called "anti racism" is simply racism against whites using a euphemism.

I regard Binoy Kampmark like the black Rhodesians who rejoiced at expelling the white farmers. Now they are all starving to death.

It just is.

The best way to ride the train wreck of the Western cultural demise, is to learn to ride the train wreck to its conclusion. Survival.

The dividing lines are already crystal clear. The yawning gap between rich and poor.
The poor are the enemy.
They just happen to be predominately black.

In the US, as in Australia, the police service is used as front line troops to persecute the poor at the lowest level; in particular treatment of the homeless offers the best view of this in action.
Local government make the bullets for the police to fire: Rules designed to make the lives of the poorest in the community a living hell, with an intention of moving the poor along and out of sight.

The huge homeless problem of the US, was as a consequence of Reagans actions in closing down mental institutions, forcing the mentally ill to fend for themselves on the streets.
Accessing services is complicated, and in most instances, impossible to those in most need of it.

The result of this deliberate policy, is the criminalising of the poor, which forces them into crime, and as a further consequence, direct confrontation with police to survive.

An egalitarian society is the answer, but sadly Western society is moving in quite the opposite direction.

Dan.

Joe

Yes, cultural dislike can also apply to traits in anglo-celtic people, as i experienced when young on a minor sale as a southern European, although i would say that the anglo-celtic influenced countries have proven to be the most accepting countries in terms of diverse immigration inflows.
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Lego, is there a difference between race and culture?

I think there is. There are plenty of immigrants that blend in and move away from their past cultural norms.

Interesting subject, might have a go at researching such an issue.

I don't know where you got your statistics Joe, but the following is from the Washington post, & very different. Of course we can't know how accurate these are either.

US police shootings, Washington Post statistics

In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects. In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population.

The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.

To Chris Lewis.

Of course their is a difference between race and culture. 'Race" denotes the dividing identifiably different groups of human beings into named categories, while "culture" is the unofficial concepts denoting right or wrong behaviour (which usually become enshrined in law) among the different categories of human beings. Black Americans extol their "black culture" as their own, not the white culture upon which almost all US laws are based.

You seem to think that people can simply discard their former cultural values like they are taking off their coats? This can happen only when people from a particular outsider's culture do this through social pressure to conform to the dominant culture. But where immigration of outside groups is high, birds of a feather will stick together and ghettoise their new society, keeping almost all of their cultural values intact.

This is happening in western societies today, where some imported immigrant communities live almost entirely within the confines of their language and cultural groups. This is not integration, it is creating a nation of tribes, and it is destroying social cohesion, the glue which keeps all communities together.

Therefore, race and culture are linked. The degree to which minorities themselves see their own cultures as being the property of their own race and cultural group could be seen by the hilarious episodes of minorities screaming at white people for so called "cultural appropriation". The charge was, that white people had no right to wear African inspired "corn row" hairdos, paint pictures in "aboriginal" style, or wear traditional Asian type dresses. And this from people wearing western style dresses, wearing western spectacles, and clutching western Iphones.

It also culminated in the famous dummy spit and walkout of ABC Muslim luvvie Yasmin Mageid, from a seminar where a noted female author gave a speech attacking the concept of cultural appropriation. After praising Islam as "the most feminist religion", she left Australia and instead of living in a "feminist" Islamic country, she went to went to live in Britain to culturally appropriate the white freedoms and living standards she usually denounces.

If western civilisation is so damned horrible, Diver Dan, why is most of the world breaking their necks to come and join us?

So Lego, what do you propose?

I am interested in how you think a western democracy can overcome the problems you highlight.

I don't think Australia will be stopping immigration any time soon, but I am interested in any constructive idea that would address your concerns.

Maybe we should be doing much more to train our people rather than increasingly rely on foreigners to fill the gap.

To Chris Lewis.

It is too late now for the populations of the western democracies to do anything about the fall of their own civilisation. The Romans waited until Alaric and his Visigoths suddenly appeared at the gates of Rome before they flashed on how stupid their decadence and their policies of appeasement were, when confronting people who really did want to destroy their civilisation. But at least the Romans were not as stupid as the West, in inviting their enemies to cross their moats, give them public housing, and put them on welfare, while they plotted Rome's downfall.

'Racists" like my good self have been warning the west for forty years that our policies of extreme racial tolerance and non discriminatory immigration was going to destroy our own civilisation. It is only now that the western world is, like the Romans, too late emerging from their own luxury induced torpor, and are realising that their own superior civilisation is in real trouble. We are creating social self suicide through immigration.

What holds every society together is the general agreement among the population as to what constitutes correct behaviour. This is the glue which ensures social cohesion and keeps communities together. But if that social cohesion frays through the importation of multitudes of people from different faiths, cultures, and races, then the inevitable result will be social instability, endemic social problems, calls for separatism based upon race and culture (already happening in Australia), race riots, ghettoes, and eventually, civil war.

Youtube has taken down many video's depicting full on street fighting battles in France (complete with rooftop snipers) between Arabs and the French police, because that sure looked like civil war to me. And now police stations in the USA are being firebombed and cities are burning. The West championed "diversity" as if it were a wonderful concept. We are now relearning the lessons of history from which we should have learned the falsity of that stupid concept

Lego and others,

whatever the situation now, you must have ideas about how your concerns can be best addressed.

for example, i dont support such a heavy reliance upon just two nationalities at moment.

I am interested in any ideas.

I don't think I have ever read anything from someone as frightened and scared of the world as what LEGO has posted on here. Seriously dude, if everything really is as awful as you believe I have a couple of suggestions:

1) lock yourself away in a bunker somewhere and plaster scrap-book style images of your imagined utopia all over the walls.

2) As traumatized children do, develop multiple personalities to help you avoid and deal with various scary situations as you encounter them.

If neither of these suggestions help, I sincerely hope that one day you will be able to see beauty in the world, and can smell the roses again.