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Australia has recently shown itself racist?

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Mikk,
just in case you not aware of it, a vote for the greens is a vote for the left. No ifs'n buts. Labor is left. The greatest interference to conservative government comes from the left. True or not ? Imagine you trying to focus on a job but some moron is constantly disturbing you. You think your performance is as good then as would be without interference ? I bet you not ! Is it really so hard to understand that if you want something you work for it. Why do you believe that one group of people should work its butt off so that another group can get funding for nil effort. I don't feel it right that I have to work 8 hrs a day to build a 6 bedroom house for a bloke & his family who literally do nothing all day. Fair system you think ? If you do then start building a house for me please. I'll throw in the beer.
Ok, the gist is that too many people get more for nothing than others get for working. It's no wonder the working ones get pi..ed off. Now when they get pi..ed off the dumbar$ed lefties call that racism. Its rather dumb don't you think so ?
Posted by individual, Sunday, 17 January 2010 12:59:03 PM
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Individual,
A vote for the green is a vote for the left....Bollocks.
Clearly there are multiple options.

"The left"(?) more pejorative labeling nonsense in leu of an argument or proof....left of what?
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mikk

The majority of Australians voted for Labor.
As I keep saying our votes are as usefull as choosing between tweedle dum and tweedle dumber.

It's the system that is wrong, firstly as you pointed out the vote isn't representative. Only a non party, multi representative, proportional voting system will do that.

The current system is stacked in favour of the status quo power groups and facilitates corruption (pollution)by disproportional non voting entities i.e. business.

Clearly by this bias those with power can disregard/manipulate the less powerful resulting in the inequitable distribution of wealth and power.

NB for the politically conservative readers: this is NOT socialism, I said equity i.e. Fairness not Equality (all the same)
Posted by examinator, Sunday, 17 January 2010 2:14:37 PM
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Dear mikk,

My apologies. I didn't mean to assert that it's
mostly low-status people that are racist.

What I was referring to was that antipathy
against groups such as blacks or Chicanos
in the US (who remain relatively impoverished)
was STRONGEST among low-status whites who
felt most threatened by the economic progress and
competition of the minorities.

Sorry that I didn't clarify that.

Of course racism is found among different people
in societies all over the world. As we know only
too well prejudiced thought is - irrational,
illogical, and inconsistent.

Prejudiced people often believe mutually
contradictory statements about groups they
dislike. For example, those who dislike Jews
for keeping to themselves, also dislike them
for intruding too much. Similarly those who
disliked them for being too capitalistic and
for controlling business also disliked them
for being too communistic and subversive of
business. Those who disliked them for being
too miserly also disliked them for giving
money to charity as a means of gaining prestige,
and so on and so on.

Clearly prejudiced people are not concerned
about genuine characteristics; they simply
accept any negative statement that feeds their
existing hostility. The thread on Islamic
fundamentalism recently, was a real eye-opener.

Another factor that contributes to prejudice
is scapegoating.

People's personalities - including their
thoughts and feelings develop in, and are
shaped by, their social context.

I believe that if groups interact regularly
on terms of co-operation and equality there
is likely to be little prejudice among their
members. Alternatively. if there is inequality,
competition, and minimal contact between
groups, prejudice can developed unchecked -
especially under parental influence.
Education is the key for the removal of
stereotypes.
Posted by Foxy, Sunday, 17 January 2010 3:40:27 PM
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Foxy
"The evidence from other countries, including Australia, also
shows a consistent pattern of racial intolerance among
low-status members of the dominant white group."

I am so damn angry when I read this total load of crap I did not read any further.

What you think the mindless drible of some rich wally starting a thread about how they spoke to a person of African descent is not racist, nice? Like a cute museum exotic artifact?

Wow so angry when I read such tripe.
Posted by TheMissus, Sunday, 17 January 2010 7:33:44 PM
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Australia has recently shown itself racist?

Not recent, always. You have multi racial society you have racism. Do not want it then live in a mono racial culture.

We have two genders so we have sex crimes. Do not want it live in a single gender society.
Posted by TheMissus, Sunday, 17 January 2010 7:36:51 PM
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Dear TM,

Oh dear.

I wish that you would have read my
posts including the explanation that I gave to
mikk. Then you would have possibly better
understood what I was talking about.

The problem is that many posters don't read
the post to which they're responding - and
they come up with a response that
is totally unnecessary.

"A load of crap?"

Really?

Re-read what I said.
Posted by Foxy, Sunday, 17 January 2010 7:48:59 PM
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