The Anti-Racists are the real racists !

thats so indiviually silly
it just might be true

i note reformed 'smokers'
and 're-formed'...drunks
are addicted the most..to reviling those..they formerly loved

if you call another strange
before they call you foreign
they just might not notice your foreigner too

there is a lot of mental imbalance
in this tribal loyalty...[i should note]

that kids dont notice these things
and are much more fore-giving

[maybe thats..because]

to their parents
they cant do anything wrong..
and if they do..are quickly forgiven
[thus quickly forgive others...as they have learned
they too were forgiven]

naturally haters breed haters
but loving hating..thats huge

striking..the first blow...
for an implied racist lable..avoidance
is much like any other point..once it is pointed out..anf fo-cussed on

"NNNNNNNNG." The problem wasn't the elderly
gentleman. It was me.
Lexi,
I only just read this. There was no problem in the first place, you made it one. I witness that frequently in remote communities. I won't try to explain why this is so because it is too difficult with only a few words.
Please do look at this as criticism on you personally, it's the furthest thing from my mind.
What I mean re the explanation is that it is just one of those situations where no party is wrong yet one party feels wrong, in your case you. It was the gentleman who should have had the nuance to explain & not leave you first get embarrassed & then feel guilty. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn't at all worldly enough to realise he was in another country where names & pronunciation are different.

Belly, you say:

>> that woman, not Representative of ordinary folk. Likely to be a Green, academic middle to high income, she has no idea about our daily lives. <<

How do you know? Do you know anything about her, or the study's findings?
If Tony Abbott was to shoot from the hip (like you have) you would be the first to tell him to do his homework. You haven't.

I was listening to "that woman", that "fool", on the radio explain the research/study's findings while driving on Tuesday. Professor Farida Fozdar certainly did not come accross as anything you (or Hasbeen) have suggested - quite the opposite in fact.

Professor Fozdar said in summary;

"You had flag flyers who were expressing non-racist views, so I wouldn't like people to go away from hearing about this research thinking, 'oh well all people who have flags on their cars are racist'. That's certainly not the finding," she said.

Really Belly, one wonders why you (and others) protest so much, about this particular topic. Perhaps you should just do a Lexie and get 'out of here' too.

Besides, research has shown that those who complain the most (about topics such as this) are more likely to be rascist than not.
Note, that doesn't mean 'all' that complain, but most.

As you yourself has said, lighten up.

bonmot,
Many people have a dislike to others, there's nothing more natural. The anti racists in turn are people who simply can not accept natural facts & do everything in their power to cause destabilisation by trying to stabilise what are natural instincts. There are racists out there but they don't display that side of themselves because they know that it is a natural phenomenon hence not making a point of it because nothing can cure it.

Is racism a state of mind. The foreigners that claim racist taunts, don't understand the Australian lingo. What gets said between friends, calling each other bastards, would not be acceptable to a foreigner.
The Italians were referred to as wogs, that was not acceptable, now they call themselves wogs.