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In defence of Eddie McGuire : Comments

By Chris Lewis, published 19/2/2021

Rather, a balanced report should recognise the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of the Club’s recent response to racism.

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you can never win highbrow debates about race. If you defend the past you are a racist.

On the other site, a poster stated this of me

"They accurately reported what the problem is and then the report was validated by the club reacting exactly as stipulated in the report. Perhaps the club needed people with backbone to stand up and say STOP! But as the report correctly pointed out there were too many like you".

So, I am a racist, even though posters on OLO tell me I am too soft when I support Chinese people when criticising the CCP.

I actually fear Australia will divide over issues on race as long as importance if given to simplistic reports like Do Better. Probably, few will read it though, like most academic publications.

I would love to see a poll of Australians on the Do Better report, to confirm whether or not it is me who is really out of touch with the Do Better report.

Here I was thinking last week that some the centre-right journos were over the top, when maybe they merely provide an appropriate balance.

It is not surprising I did well at university, PhD funded by a scholarship.

I was competing against the brainwashed that could only think in accordance to the rubbish presented to them.

Only difference was I actually knew how to appeal to their bs.
Posted by Chris Lewis, Sunday, 21 February 2021 12:30:40 PM
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Racism.
It is simple really.
It is instinctive for us to dicriminate against difference.
Children especially will note and comment on difference.
They have not yet had to don their social cloak.

Differences in size, height, colour, mannerisms, speech, will all be observed.
We are programmed to reject or be wary of (major) difference.
This is a natural response.
I imagine people need this reaction.
Difference gives them something to rally against.
It is a challenge, and adds purpose to life.

On this world, there is a major mixing of races.
So, instinctive discrimination is much to the fore.
To ensure a peaceful society, we must use reason to overcome our instinctive reaction against difference.
Using reason in this way, exercising control over one's own instinctive behaviour, is called 'growing up'.

We need to remember that as human beings we are not infallible.
We can make mistakes.
So we need to allow the mistakes of others, and not over-react in a harmful way.
We should bear in mind that:
'sticks and stones may break my bones, but hard words never hurt me'.

And we must not over-react to nick names either.
Tall persons will be called shorty, 'fat' persons skinny, and so on and so on.
These are not derogatory terms.
They are a rather perverse way of paying a compliment.
We are saying 'I notice and admire you', but at the same time saying 'I am not inviting personal closeness'.

So being more thoughtful and understanding is key to a smooth social climate.
I think the 'attack' on Mr McGuire was ill-conceived, and more to be expected from an out of control 'mob'.
I am sorry he felt so pressured.
Posted by Ipso Fatso, Sunday, 21 February 2021 1:50:11 PM
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Earlier today, I watched a charming young black man with an enormous Afro haircut opining that these people calling themselves anti-racists are actually the 'new racists'.

Pretty hard to call him a white supremacist, so one 'nice' ant-racist type referred to him as a 'house n ---- r'
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 21 February 2021 5:42:22 PM
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Racism :

*... racial or ethnic prejudice or intolerance...*

Yep, that’s me!

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Sunday, 21 February 2021 7:48:51 PM
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Thanks for your post Chris Lewis-

Yes I agree with you that the best thing is to say that "even though some may believe that a policy may be quote/ unquote racist it is still the right thing to do".

Everyone is racist in a sense- everyone looks after their own self interest- this is sort of the principle of the invisible hand of the father of Economics- Adam Smith. I don't see anything wrong with this in moderation- we need lines.

If you try to avoid being racist then this is a fallacious strategy that will lead to inhumanity. It's better to transcend the racist label by appealing to true humanity. The Philosophy of Humanity is broad and subtle.

After all the Communist's were inhumane all in the name of equality and anti-racism.

It's interesting that it's on the record that founding communists Leon Trotsky used the concept of racism to attack the industrialists and traditionalists in the 1920's and is still being used today by socialists. Despite Stalin's many faults the famines in Russia would have been much worse if Trotsky had ruled after Lenin.

Maybe we will see Communist famines again.

Transcend Communist Inhumanity...

I'm concerned at the absolutism and contradiction embodied in the contemporary concept of racism
Posted by Canem Malum, Sunday, 21 February 2021 8:53:17 PM
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Chris Lewis said "CM, are you saying that interaction cannot lead to a harmonious national society of different ethnicities?"

Answer- There is always politics and politics is always about some group taking advantage over another. Equality is naive. Enlightened self interest acknowledges that everyone exists in ponds and to get what we want means compromise- but that is not the same as giving away your rights. A minority will always try and breed so that their influence and security and stability increases until they are dominant- sometimes the instability in the wider society can be managed temporarily- but not in the long term. The whole history is basically a string of examples of cultural and ethnic conflict. If you are going to give your country away- do it or don't do it- don't half do it- though you can give a piece of it away.

If everyone respects and polices the borders between cultural groups then they can all live in peace. Cultural groups can't live under another cultures rule and will attempt to subvert it.

Cultural groups conciliatory in disadvantage- aggressive otherwise.

Universal heat death or not from chaos theory- also ethnic conflict- but I wouldn't want to put the future of my family or my culture in the hands of chaos.

There are special interests at play in the sponsoring of multicultural society- including industrialists, communists. Some locations on the Earth are centres of commerce and have been prone to the development of multiculturalism- medieval Florence and Venice- "Britain not". It deserves analysis.

Reducing Earth's population- requires review of the premise of human activity. Acquisitional cultures lead to disaster- the west have given up it's colonies- some still colonise. African and Asian people could be said to be colonising the West. Though perhaps the west never colonised the East or Africa in quite this way- they acquired their wealth but didn't perhaps replace their people.

Some cultures are more different than others.

Rand "Charity needs the givers choice".

So the answer to your question is "no". Thanks Chris for asking the question. Sorry for taking so long
Posted by Canem Malum, Sunday, 21 February 2021 9:50:38 PM
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