//To condemn literal self defence is probably one of the most insipd actions of all.//

Well it's good that nobody's done that then.

Unless your interpretation of 'literal self defence' is so broad that it includes discriminating against brown people because they're brown. But that'd be nuts.

Maxine Waters has chosen to present as a whining victim. She has no self-respect (boo hoo, I'm offended). She will never receive respect from anyone but her fellow-whiners and neo-Marxists. Although, even there, those people are also so self-centred and obsessed with their own victimhood and irrelevance that they are unlikely to care enough about her to give her a second thought.

And SillyRedux describes such pathetic victimhood as a “good fight”. If that's a fight, there is still a good chance that common sense will prevail, and the neo-Marxists will get the comeuppance they deserve.

Dear Paul1405,

It is really sad to hear stories like yours. It can really ruin a day out when you encounter behaviour like that. Hopefully things are slowly changing for the better in this country.

We really could do with a Maxine waters type here calling things for what they really are.

I did like how she spoke about the "Kremlin Clan" surrounding Trump well before this all hit the fan. It turns out she was right on the money.

Dear Paul and Steele,

I remember decades ago when my husband and I were
seated in the waiting-room of a hospital patiently waiting
to be called. A nurse came up to my husband and loudly
asked him "Do you need an interpreter?"

She was an older lady and had obviously
made the unfortunate assumption that my husband
did not speak English
because he had a "foreign" surname.

To which
my husband replied
in his eloquent English accent,

"Why, doesn't the doctor
speak English?"

I wonder if this would still happen today?

Foxy,

I would probably like your husband.

Paul,

Now we know why you are super-sensitive to matters racial, and why you imagine racism abounds in Australia: your wife could be mistaken for an aboriginal, or so you tell us.

Any half- decent shop assistant would be right onto anyone who showed an interest in their wares by lifting a garment from a rack. There might be a sale in it, Mr. Conclusion- Jumper! And the “guard”, perhaps hoping your wife might change her mind, hung around in the hope of making some money if she did. After all, she had nothing to do but chat to another shop assistant until your wife showed interest, did she not?

Then, as though you had only just met your wife, you ask her, as you would a stranger, how she felt about the “treatment”. In your time married to this lady, have you not discussed this sort of thing before? Did she really have to tell you that she had put up with 'it’ all her life? Don't you talk to the poor women? If this is really a true story, your wife has her act together more than you do. She is made of sterner stuff. Not thin skinned like you. Or, perhaps this lady is like your Greek neighbour: all in your 'setting racist to rights’ imagination.

I’ll never know the truth, but you will be comforted by SillyRedux’s comments on your 'really sad story’, I'm sure.

Dear ttbn,

Most people like my husband.

He's a very quiet, gentle soul.
Totally conservative and the love of my life.
I'd be lost without him.