The problem here is that one can't have an opinion, 'an honest one' without being called a 'racist'.

If one suggests that some Muslims don't try to assimilate and adopt our customs, you are 'racist'.

If one suggests that a large percentage of indigenous folk waste most of their welfare money on grog and cigs, or that they waste opportunity after opportunity to better themselves, you are a racist.

Just remember, there is nothing racist about telling it how it is. It's just that to many people simply can't handle the truth.

Also remember that PH tells it as it is, and she also welcomes immigrants who wish to adopt the Australian way.

Now how can that be seen as racist?

Here's another bit of Green 'logic' from their Policy Statement in NSW, courtesy of "Samuel' on the Ethics Forum.

(quote) OK, I'll start the ball rolling with a Green proposal that is out and out stupidity.

From their firearms policy.

Quote:
33. Enforcement of regulations requiring guns in homes in rural
communities to be kept in a metal box with a combination lock securely
bolted to wall or floor, with firing mechanisms and ammunition locked in
a similar box in a separate room; unquote.

Now here it is the middle of the night and farmer Jones is sound asleep beside his loving wife.
She wakes him up and tells him that she heard a noise from her sheep.
She has a dozen prize ones that she likes to pen near the house.

Thinking that it might be dogs, because the sheep are kickin' up a row by this time, the farmer goes in the dark to fumble with the combination lock on the gun safe, he gets his rifle out, then still in the dark he manages to get the other combination lock undone and with a feeble torch (must remember to get fresh batteries) he finds the bolt and the the ammunition and moves cautiously outside. He flicks on the floodlights but he's too late, most of the prize sheep are down and those that are still up are walking on their own entrails.

Sadly he shoots those that are still alive because to his expert eye they are beyond help.

Why did he fumble around in the dark?
Because to turn on the lights would have alerted the wild dogs.
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Or consider this :
Mrs Jones is in the kitchen of the farm house when she hears a commotion in the chook house, looks out the window and there's a wild dog.
Does she,
1. Try to get a gun from the locked safe and the bolt and ammunition from the other locked box.
2. Run out and try to frighten the dog, which may save the chooks but then she may be attacked.
3. Ring '000' and watch the chooks get killed.

or does she grab her 12gauge shotgun from behind the door, a shell from her apron pocket, race out the back door and blast the dog.
Pity that Mrs Jones is guilty of a few criminal offences but she still has her chooks.

The Greens are impractical sidewalk cafe theorists.
If a farmer or his wife or his employees need a gun they are often going to need it in a hurry.(unquote).

Pauline Hanson, and a lot of other politicians, would never promote such stupidity but for the Greens it's par for the course

Dear SOG,

You seem to have all the answers therefore I don't see the point in any further discussion. I will suggest that you write to the PM with your concerns as well as your solutions to the problems that you feel Australia is currently facing. That would probably achieve far more then posting on this Forum. Good Luck with that!

Dear rehctub,

You state there's nothing racist about "telling it like it is." Prejudiced thought always involves the use of a stereotype - a rigid mental image that summarizes whatever is believed to be typical about a group. Clearly prejudiced people are not concerned about genuine group characteristics; they simply accept any negative statement that feeds their existing hostility. Another factor that contributes to prejudice is scapegoating. Placing the blame for one's troubles on some relatively powerless individual or group. Scapegoating typically occurs when the members of one group are threatened but are unable to retaliate against the real source of the threat. Instead, they vent their frustrations on some weak and despised group and thereby gain the sense that they are superior to someone at least. An example can be given from Great Britain, where prolonged recession caused chronic unemployment among working-class white youths. Unable to strike at the real source of their problem - the "system" - some of these youths took to assaulting Pakistani immigrants, whom they believed to be competing for the few available jobs at the same level. These attacks became so common that a new word was created for them - "Paki-bashing."

Lexi,
I hope that for the sake of the children's future whom you teach you are separating your views from the curriculum you're repeating as a proxy.