Hi Paul1405,
"Australians holding 'Negative' views towards out groups within society"

Why would you think that all Australians would hold a 100% positive view of these sub-groups?
And where does personal preference fit in?

The worlds so crazy these days that a man will be accused of being fat-phobic or trans-phobic are they aren't open to dating these people.
Essentially, they've made up words to make everyone able to claim victimhood and words that can make anyone a perpetrator and worthy or depression.

Think of the word 'colonist' bandied about
- Yet how many of us are actually guilty of colonising anyone's country?
I for one was born here, as were many who came before me.

Why would you assumme that human beings wouldn't hold a personal preference, and that they wouldn't like some races more than others?
You can't socially engineer the things that make people human out of humans.

I'm not obliged to love and celebrate foreigners, and why would I when I see the nation going down the toilet.

If you want an example of the nation going down toilet, Albo is PM, Wong is foreign minister.
If that's not as good an example as any and where we're at, then I don't know what is.

I think this is a bit of a beatup honestly, to create a picture of racism where considerations of life experience and personal preference play a part in one's feelings towards others.
Even the news we watch is guilty of cultivating those feelings and preferences based on the nationalities of who might be causing trouble at any given time.
- It would be stranger and more concerning if Australians views were all 100% positive.

Is Mise

Being one of the smarter posters here, you also know about manipulation of language, changing the meanings of words to suit the objectives of people who hate our culture. You call it "modern parlance", but it is a weaponisation of language to infer that nationality - and religion in the case of Islam - can be equated to race. The enemies of our culture do it with everything else, too.

Still, people will continue to think, do and say what they have always thought, done and said from a certain age; we all become set in ways and beliefs on pretty much everything. That age varies from 'expert' to 'expert', but it is generally in the mid-twenties to mid-thirties. In my 80th year I'm hardly likely to change now, and I don't think that there are many posters here are still in their twenties or thirties.

I'm beginning to wonder why we keep on with this stuff. It doesn't make a scrap of difference, and we know what everyone is going to say about all subjects before they post.

Racism does occur, in all races, all over the world, not just in Australia, and not just by white people. It always will, and it's pathetic that virtue-signallers think that harping on it, complaining about it, and accusing other people of being racists will make a damn of difference. It is more pathetic that some people allow themselves to be silenced by thugs posing as 'nice' people.

The word "racism" has broadened to encapsulate more than ethnicity, for some claim a narrow definition of ethnic grouping only. Thus the comment; "One can’t be racist to Muslims, per se, as Muslim describes a person of a particular religion and not a ‘race’." In the narrow sense of meaning that is true, but with the dynamics of language words change meaning over time, and 'racism" is such a word. Maybe some would prefer the word "vilify" as an alternative description of negative reactions towards others based on difference.

Hi Foxy,

'I have to confess that watching the indigenous protests on TV
I thought their behaviour was vile. And I was shocked by what
they did." That is understandable from us, and I'll include myself in that, until we realise we have never "walked in their shoes".

"But after reading Stan Grant's article I realized that I was reacting like a white person and had not experienced what he had in his lifetime. I did not understand nor see things from an indigenous point of view." Well said.

In my family I tend to be the "angry" one on matters of injustice, very black and white. The death of Elizabeth Windsor has been a topic of discussion, within. The younger members being rather blase about it all. The wife however was saddened by her death, for the simple reason she is saddened by all deaths of people. My point here is sometimes we look at things with a different perspective to others

First the Guilt Industry, now the racism Industry ! What's in the pipeline for the next ?

Indy,
Such industries are of little interest to me. Watching the sun rise over the bay whilst I made myself a mug of tea is a good enough start to the day.
A bit of writing today maybe as I am being dunned to complete some promised work.
It would appear many folk cannot function without some drama or dispute in their lives. Maybe they are dissatisfied with their own. Could be a serve of hostility is what they need, a spice of some sort.
Anyway you all have a good one.
Take it easy.
SD

Indyvidual

You’d be better served to understand the deep trauma of the old mate who lives on a hill top among the gold tops at Nimbin, 14.05klm from the Green Slime Capital of Australia, Byron Bay, with its own beacon of failure, a permanent presence of the Police riot squad!

I think it’s time I gently suggest, to polish up on analytical theory of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, which will greatly help in your understanding of (should we be nice and call him Paul, for the sake of the session), outcomes associated with his inferiority complexes and his many other complex constellations?

Tch Tch. Naughty Dan.