Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 28
th, 2019 at 3:25pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 28
th, 2019 at 2:12pm:
Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 28
th, 2019 at 2:00pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 27
th, 2019 at 10:04pm:
You two really do have problems understanding how Democracy works, don't you?
We understand that the Libs and Labs don't want to discuss the issue of immigration
Au contraire'.
They are quite willing to discuss it, as long as you accept the ground rules they have laid down. No Racism, no Islamophobia, no Homophobia, etc. If you want to talk numbers, talk numbers. If you want to talk skilled versus unskilled, talk that. However, you cannot as all too often happens mix humanitarian versus unhumanitarian sources. The two are completely different. All too often, the Racists and Xenophobics will only talk about "race" and ethnicity and culture and skin colours and eye shapes and so on and so on.
Democracy of course means that you, as a voter get to control what the parties say and present as their party platform(s). What's the betting you're not even a member of a political party and therefore have little control over what goes into their Platforms?
Doesn't leave much to talk about - what about the biases that build up in politicians minds favoring immigrants over the rest of society? Lib Lab politics and the Law don't always treat everyone equally. I remember a muslim bloke south of Sydney who got just three years in jail for a premeditated murder. The judge said: "The general public won't understand this sentence", then he gave him only three years. The sentence was based on the muslim belief that it's ok to kill someone who breaches Sharia law. The judge sympathized with that. Sharia law is NOT our law
You're only looking at one side of immigration, you and your political ilk are blind to the many other facets of the policy that all political parties need to take notice of. To ignore them jeopardises the chance for real harmony in society. Your idea of harmony is to ram the immigrants in and call the rest of us racist - great way to conduct an immigration policy, I must say
"Race" as I have explained many times is a social construct and has no meaning in Genetics. We all belong to the one "race", the human one.
Harmony is something the Racists love to talk about without noticing that they are the ones introducing disharmony into the debate and our society. Overwhelming, the majority of Australians support Immigration (within reason) and Multiculturalism. Indeed, over 85% of Australians support Multiculturalism according to the Social Harmony survey conducted by the Scanlon Institute.
We should talk numbers, not where immigrants come from. We should increase IMO our humanitarian intake and we should allow asylum seekers the right to seek asylum on our shores, which they are guaranteed under the UN Treaty for Refugees.
Australia has a finite limit on how many immigrants it can absorb and what population it can carry. This should be acknowledged but that is just numbers, nothing more. We are a Multicultural, Multi-ethnic, Multi-religious society. All you want to do is argue about what we aren't any more. We have moved on from the days of the White Australia policy, thankfully, except in the imagination of the Racists.