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Feb 13th, 2021 at 9:25pm
 
"Australia is deplorably racist. It was founded on a racist document and hasn’t improved."

Ozpolitic itself is evidence of Australian racism as there are scores of racists posting hate rants.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/10/australia-is-deplorably-ra...

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Australia is deplorably racist, as people of colour are reminded when they speak up
Jack Latimore

There can be no reconciliation until politicians acknowledge the harmful impacts of race baiting

Thu 9 Aug 2018 19.00 BST

There’s no question that Australia is a far more racist country than its political class like to admit. No amount of spin should be capable of disorientating hard facts sufficiently to obfuscate that reality. Yet – incredibly – I still receive abusive “mail” ridiculing me for jumping at shadows, protesting it just ain’t so.

I understand how a certain amount of privilege in life provides a buffer to the kinds of racialised discrimination, prejudice and hate speech that daily infects the lives of people of colour in Australia. But surely by now, in the heavily media saturated environment we inhabit, claiming colour-blindness, whether in an Australian context or global society, isn’t possible. Yet, such selective awareness persists.

Undoubtedly, this is partly due to the “filter bubbles” created by the algorithms that shape the most pervasive media in each of our lives. In these safely curated backwaters, our social media newsfeeds – now always ready at hand – reinforce our preferred constructions of the world. Consuming content is self-medication: a drip of personally homogenised feels to fix the anxiety of each participant-user.

For politicians, there is also the element of political expediency. Our prime minister, for example, can put a cameo in up north in a vulnerable Aboriginal community, while one or two of his ministers eagerly race-bait against other marginalised, at-risk peoples in the south. Apparently this provides some weird kind of “balance” for government apologists. You can see it for yourself in their condescending rationalisations on Facebook and Twitter should you choose to surf beyond the reef of your own social media echo chamber.

Australia is deplorably racist. It was founded on a racist document and hasn’t improved.

For readers who have chosen not to follow this particular “thread”, that’s the dilemma that’s afflicted the nation for the past six or seven years. Don’t laugh, there are millions of Australians who have no idea about and zero interest in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and any of the work put in before it or since. Networks of them message me and other Blak pundits to momentarily assert themselves on the situation whenever we speak out about racism.

The recent surge in racism is not an anomaly. For many white, liberal-minded Australians, recent media commentary over the appearance of a notorious white nationalist on the Sky News channel was the first indication that our society remains deeply stricken by racism. And for many of them, the subsequent banning of said individual and the news channel’s “icing” of the particular program on which he appeared is a sufficient practical and symbolic rejection of racism. For others, the concern is that it is too little too late. The neo-Nazi is out of the bag. By banning him from ever appearing on its channel again, Sky News has centred – or normalised – its regular hard-right editorials. It doesn’t matter a jot if this was an intended or inadvertent consequence.

But this incident is only a tile in the much larger colonial project that continues to impact the lives of not just First Nations peoples, but the majority of people of colour in Australia. It’s a racial ideology that’s seemingly in perpetual motion in this country, which has been present since at least federation and arguably further back, with the arrival of “enlightened” Europeans roughly 250 years ago. The recent surge in racism merely stems from this blight, and in terms of timespan, it goes well beyond what occurred at Sky News last Sunday night.

In the past fortnight alone, concerted attacks by Australian racists on media figures such as Osman Faruqi and Benjamin Law have caught my attention. In Faruqi’s case, the racialised and disproportionate abuse he received for supporting the banning of plastic bags from supermarkets has threatened to silence his activity on Twitter. Meanwhile, the racial abuse directed at Law involved a thinly-veiled death threat for suggesting Virgin Australia cease broadcasting Sky News in their lounges.

On Wednesday, to bring attention to the toxicity of the abuse being directed towards outspoken people of colour, I tweeted a screenshot of an email from “whitepride” titled “bugger you abo dogs” that was sent to the administrators of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders online platform, IndigenousX. Other established and emerging First Nations writers and commentators have informed me they have also experienced an upsurge of similar abuse in recent weeks. It should surprise nobody that the racists feel emboldened.

If this kind of racial vilification reflects the current social environment, how is it possible for Aboriginal people to feel optimistic about a “reconciled” future in Australia? Particularly when the kinds of attitudes that consider us “dirty black dogs” are so valued by embattled Australian politicians ...
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Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:18pm
 
You are an example of what we MUST discriminate against.

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Frank wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:18pm:
You are an example of what we MUST discriminate against.



You have evidently mistaken me for Yadda.
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Reply #3 - Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm
 
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.
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Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.

There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Reply #5 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:09am
 
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:06am:
Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.

There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Never travelled anywhere have you, eh?
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Reply #6 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:25am
 
rhino wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:09am:
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:06am:
Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.

There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Never travelled anywhere have you, eh?


I have worked in 15 countries.
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Reply #7 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:26am
 
rhino wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:09am:
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:06am:
Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.

There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Never travelled anywhere have you, eh?

He travels from home to the latte shop regularly.
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Reply #8 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:27am
 
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:25am:
rhino wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:09am:
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:06am:
Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.
WOW you are da man
There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Never travelled anywhere have you, eh?


I have worked in 15 countries.

You are da man
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Reply #9 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:28am
 
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:25am:
rhino wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:09am:
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:06am:
Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.

There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Never travelled anywhere have you, eh?


I have worked in 15 countries.
More likely you have stayed in 15 hotels. you are deplorably ignorant.
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Reply #10 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:29am
 
No wonder we're so racist -

the blacks here are super scary:


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Reply #11 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:31am
 
rhino wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:28am:
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:25am:
rhino wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:09am:
Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:06am:
Johnnie wrote on Feb 13th, 2021 at 10:43pm:
Australia is the most successful and bestest multicultural country on earth so it doesn't say a lot for the rest of them.


No it's not. It is number 139 on the multicultural rank below Egypt. There are only 20 countries below Australia on the list.

There you have it. Australia is not a culturally diverse country.

That rank is near the bottom which is North Korea 159.

China, Egypt, and Libya are just ahead of Australia.

UK 108, New Zealand 101, USA 84, Malaysia 58, India 16, PNG 10, Tanzania 1.

There are only 20 countries below Australia in the ranking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_di
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Never travelled anywhere have you, eh?


I have worked in 15 countries.
More likely you have stayed in 15 hotels. you are deplorably ignorant.


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Reply #12 - Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:33am
 
LYTC has worked in 15 countries, how cool is that!
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Bobby. wrote on Feb 14th, 2021 at 12:34am:
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You cheeky boy.
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