@SPQR, Saturday, 26 April 2014 11:05:42 AM

Aw shucks, Saltpetre was only 'White Knighting' with that ejaculation, "Why do some people go out of their way to pick on Foxy".

A not uncommon, traditional reaction of males. That is to instinctively defend the 'fair sex'. However Foxy does play the archetypal innocent stricken little woman well, pleading with lots of practice.

Outdated and rejected by women who prefer to be treated as adults who are perfectly able to make their own choices and be held accountable for them.

Saltpetre,

You are right that there ought be more civility in the broad.

Back to the thread.

Banjo, I don't have to 'prove' anything to you or anyone else on this forum.
This is an 'opinion ' forum, and my opinion is that you and a few other posters are racist.

And I agree with Saltpetre that you and others do gang up and try to derail Foxy.
So....a racist and a bully.

Sure, we all have our own opinions, but just think how boring it would be if this forum was left to just the racists and bullies?
You would would have no one to argue with...

It must be the long weekend. However we are but small specks in the universe, etc.

Maybe move on?

A question was posed a little earlier and I would be interested in reactions to it,

<So the question is rather should ANZAC Day be kept as it traditionally has been and was on 25 April 2015, or do the posters here believe it should change and if so, how specifically?>

"Capable generous men do not create victims
they nurture victims."
(Julian Assange).

LOL, Julian Assange is not a good choice for many reasons.

Besides, it is hard to imagine him White Knighting and rescuing a damsel in distress.

There is a perfectly good thread subject going begging and a question to chew the fat over as well.

Banjo, "I note that RObert did not find anything racist in the items."
I would not go quite so far as that. I suspect there will be an element of racism involved by some but none of the evidence I've seen suggests that it was the predominate theme in any of the points used to highlight racism in the post you have been challenging. I suspect weak analysis by commentators based on confirmation bias. Give a boy a hammer and everything is a nail.

It's interesting to see how much our world view appears to come into play with what we appear to take from the same events or words. I've not seen anything disturbing in the material that has been quoted so far, others see an agenda.

Whilst I don't thing that Anzac day is the forum to address wrongs done by the military or to make political points I do think in terms of the broader focus on rememberance that its valid to keep in mind the speciific contributions from some groups that may have been downplayed (or dismissed) in the past.

After reading some of the earlier comments I've thought about Aboriginal soldiers enlisting to fight for a country that did not give them the same legal rights as others. I've pondered what kind of hell it must have been for same sex orientated people who enlisted at a time when coming out had serious consequences both socially and legally.

I don't have simple answers to how those kind of issues should be addressed but in terms of report into a prolonged rememberance (which the report was looking at ) of those who have served they are issues which should be addressed.

R0bert