Rainier

You are a very intelligent person. You could use that intellect to show leadership rather than hubris.

I had a laugh earlier. I hope you take this in the spirit it's intended.
I quoted one of your statements on another thread.

I noted a spelling error, in the accepted manner.
Only with rereading did I notice a Freudian slip. I've been giggling away ever since. I hope you join me in my mirth.

Kontext I unserer Diskussion es war humourous.

To the leftists and liberalists on this forum – please explain to me why you say the rioters at Cronulla were ‘racists’ and in the explanation please address the below.

A significant number of Pacific Islanders had come down to the beach at Cronulla to "support the Australian way of life"

that means there were WHITE Anglo-Saxon Australians side by side with BLACK Islanders UNITED against the constant thuggery and intimidation and hatred that young men of middle eastern heritage have for this country and its people. It is CLEAR that the colour of ones skin had nothing to do with it - IT IS ABOUT A CULTURE that comes down to the beach and threatens to rape white girls if they don't 'cover up' –

If BLACK AND WHITE Australians were fighting in mateship – they DID NOT turn on each other when they realised they had different skin colour did they!! SO SHUT UP AND STOP SAYING THE WHITE ANGLO_SAXON OR THE BLACK PACIFIC ISLANDER AUSTRALIANS AT CRONULLA WERE RACIST.

And, I suggest to you that you are racist for signaling out the white anglo-saxon Australians, and not saying anything about the black islanders who also attacked middle easterns.

It’s not really that hard Thor.

The rioters were/are racist because they attacked a number of complete strangers based only on their physical (racial) appearance.

There was no attempt to establish religion, political persuasion, favourite sport or food, or any other 'cultural' definition.

There was even a complete disregard for wether those who were attacked were in any way related to the assault on the life guards.

They were targeted on physical appearance alone.

Your second point about the nationality of the rioters is irrelevant. racism is firstly the judgement of a person, and secondly the harm, or intention to harm, physically, verbally, financially, socially, that person based solely on their physical racial appearance.

its not easy being

let us take your definition of racisim to be correct - [such and such] 'based solely on their physical racial appearance'.

Then, clearly it had nothing to do with race by your own definition.

As the attacks were NOT 'based SOLELY on their physical racial appearance', but were based on OTHER FACTORS ALSO*.

*(the other factors may have been the constant intimidation, hatred for Australians, assaults, threats of rape to young Australian girls, actual rapes, shootings, thuggery, and other asocial conduct in society).

As the Australian people, black and white Australians, did not attack Middle Easterns 'based solely on their physical racial appearance', BUT attacked Middles Easterns based on OTHER FACTORS ALSO... THEN, by YOUR OWN DEFINITION, the Australian people CANNOT be racist.

DON'T ARGUE WITH A LAW STUDENT MATE!!

Dear Salam

I have read all of your OLO articles as far as I know. This is another generic one - change a few paragraphs here and there - and change the title. That's about it for me.

My husband and I will be thinking about Indigenous Australians tomorrow. We cannot apologise for something that others did when Australia was colonised. How can we? We were not alive to know what really happened.

We will be raising the Aussie flag. We will be having a BBQ, and we will not be getting drunk. We will be playing John Williamson.

Cheers to all
Kay
PS: Salam - are you wanting another riot?

Multiculturalism?

Seems more like American culture to me. Gangsta culture, turf wars, illegal immigration, religous tolerance, alcohol intolerance.

The more immigrants we have the more right wing we get, because afterall we all are gathered here tomorrow to celebrate our economic benefits, because of the almighty dollar. Is what joins us together.

We push and push to be more like America everday yet we complain about the US? We don't like the fact they are so capitalistic yet we push for more like minded people to join us in so called multiculture? people who see riches. A country that attracts the most greedy will always be an economic success.

Now some want open borders, wow cheap labour and disease, good way to get rid of medicare and industrial reform. Even more then we can rid rid of welfare the way we know it and introduce food stamps. How else would money driven people have it?

America, try living there and you see how such a society cannot or will not support social policy. A society that demands strong and lethal law enforcement. If you think Australia will be different...ha ha ha I say to you.

Ah yes, a multiculture we are. lol.

Tomorrow think I will have some lamb chops and get drunk...

because I can...

for how much long I wonder?