Sure, BA makes lots of mistakes, and lots of silly claims, but the underlying issue he is attempting to highlight is real, and denying that is no less silly than his getting his dates wrong(amongst many other things), but we can safely assume he is young and passionate, and if his heart is in the right place, he can train his head to serve it better, in time.
We saw Calanen respond with this gem;
Quote:There is not much racism in Australia, what there is instead, is anyone of particular 'protected classes' using racism as a general purpose excuse for any problem that they might have. That way, they never need to work or try at anything themselves, because it's always the white guy's fault.
Which is both untrue, and an example of racist thinking in itself.
We have plenty of racism here, and just because he can cite examples of foreign countries that promote systemic racism, does not mean we should ignore our problems here, even if they ar not as bad as other places.
We should be trying to eradicate racism, it is wrong and stupid, and far too many make excuses for it, when there are none.
I have only ever had one close friend who was black, and he died because of the racist treatment he received.
Mind you, I am white and almost died at the same hands because I was a dirty long haired hippie, so they were multi faceted haters, the main thing you needed to qualify to be hated was to be visibly different.
It stinks that so many still try to justify racism, when they can confront any social issue without needing to resort to negative stereotyping.
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