My suggestion to AC would by visit Israel and also Hamas held areas and compare the values of each. it is a comparison between Iran and Israel, so do you believe the values of Iran are more humane than Israel?

Dear Josephus,

The Middle East needs peace, not instability, war,
enmity, inequality, and most importantly - double
standards. Without security and peace, democracy
and respect for human rights will be marginalised.

Hi Foxy, Hassy and everyone

RACISM (feelings of racial affiliation) is a universal reality, whether we like it or not.

That said...

Certainly "First Nations" people:

- formerly called Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders,

trying to create a RACE Based Aristocracy under the Law (starting with the Constitution) is blatantly RACIST.

The Government is doing the right thing by resisting the radical "Uluru Statement from the Heart" racist-political push.

Albanese, if he ever gets in, will resist it as well, otherwise Labor would quickly be voted out!

Giving people (who are NOW mainly WHITE, mainly 1/4 or less "First Nations blood"):

- special "First Nations" Constitutional powers

- would be followed by special rules privileging "First Nations" in all legislation going through Parliament. Effectively a 3rd House of Parliament, exclusively for "First Nations" people who could veto all or most legislation/laws, and

- resulting in a whole series of laws privileging such people.

This is, of cause, a "First Nations" RACIST ABOMINATION.

Racism has its roots in Galton's eugenics and Malthus on population, with many fellow travellers.

It's easier to view it as a class system or pecking order used to manipulate voters views and even motivate them in one way or the other.

Since the end of the white Oz policy (and US discriminatory immigration policies) outright racism is not generally tolerated but has been replaced by dog whistling on identity, immigration, refugees and population growth; since '70s helped along by ZPG etc.

However, dog whistling expert Prof. Ian Haney-Lopez has written of how it has destroyed the middle class in the US, making them paranoid and anxious, exemplified nowadays in the US by alt/far right, Evangelicals, QAnon, Capitol Hill types et al.

The Cafe con leche Republicans, and others e.g. George Bush (on 'Anglo Saxon' GOP caucus), complain that the GOP may become unelectable by becoming less diverse and less tolerant of diversity; voter suppression is related to demographic change.

I guess I've always had a colour prejudice. As a young bloke, during my surfer bum period I was only interested in the girls with a deep tan & brief bikini. It did not matter whether the tan was sun or ethnic caused.

Hassy

You bikini racist you. Deep ethnic "tan" here http://i.pinimg.com/474x/05/01/eb/0501eb7a2953d27ebb8310fcd9872c29.jpg