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Beyond Blue Anti Racism campaign

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I just saw the TV ads for Anti racism. I found it racist in the extreme. it is produced by people dreaming their days away in high rise offices at taxpayers expense. this campaign is making a big gap even wider. It will achive exactly the opposite of what it claims to do.
I predict a huge negative outcome.
Posted by individual, Friday, 1 August 2014 6:58:36 AM
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Individual,
They're stupid ads to be sure but they do make one important point, there are "issues" between Whites and Aboriginals but those issues are not connected to any other group, the history of indigenous-settler relations is unique.
I'm a White Nationalist and my experiences with Aboriginals have nearly all been negative including being bashed and robbed by them but I still wouldn't be as petty and stupid as those cartoon characters in the ad.
This ad portrays White people as ignorant and assumes that they are unable to read a person's body language, the way they sound and smell or tell anything about their intent just by looking at them.
We all have five senses but it appears that the White people in "Anti Racist Land" seem to be restricted to using only their eyesight.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Friday, 1 August 2014 11:03:36 AM
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This campaign highlights the damaging effects of
subtle racism and encourages all Australians to
check their behaviour.

"Why should anyone be made to feel like crap,
just for being who they are?"

Ads like these can help audiences to re-think their
place in the world. They also have the capacity to
expand our reality. There is simply a need for
the average person to experience how the "other
half" lives, and see things from
another's perspective - and have their stories
unfold on the screen.
Our consciousness is affected and relies
partly on filmed images.

This campaign does a very
good job!
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 1 August 2014 11:20:03 AM
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What actually made me laugh was that they had to use a Niugini fellow on the bus to portray an Aborigine. Couldn't they find a dark enough indigenous in Melboure ?
Posted by individual, Friday, 1 August 2014 1:34:14 PM
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Individual,

You have to allow them their little mythologies. In the anti-racism world it's everyone else against whitey --and remember only whities can be real racists
Posted by SPQR, Friday, 1 August 2014 2:29:26 PM
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Dear Individual,

This particular actor is very good at acting various
character roles and he therefore was chosen by "Beyond Blue"
to get their important message across.

Actors play a variety of roles -
in Shakespeare's days men played the roles of women,
white actors have played black characters, and so on.

What is important is the message contained in this particular
ad - and that message - comes across very strongly strongly.

Besides it should also be added that this race has one of
the highest genetic diversities.
Not all Aborigines are the same.
Posted by Foxy, Friday, 1 August 2014 2:30:16 PM
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