Australia’s leading Anglo-Celtic advocacy group has called on the Race Discrimination Commissioner to apologise for publishing a statement saying White people cannot experience racism.
Indian-born bureaucrat Giridharan Sivaraman, who is paid $408,000 a year in taxpayer funds by the Australian Human Rights Commission, included the claim in a Common Myths & Misconceptions About Racism guide that accompanies his National Anti-Racism Framework.
An explainer in the guide produced by Mr Sivaraman states: “Whilst White people can experience multiple forms of discrimination or prejudice based on gender, sexual orientation, ability, age, or class; they cannot experience racism.”The guide produced by Mr Sivaraman states in an explainer: “Whilst white people can experience multiple forms of discrimination or prejudice based on gender, sexual orientation, ability, age, or class; they cannot experience racism.
“Racism is more than just prejudice, and is accompanied by power to discriminate against, oppress or limit the rights of others. Sometimes terms like “reverse racism” or “anti-white racism” are used to describe situations where White people feel they have been discriminated against because of their whiteness.
“This is a common and particularly harmful misconception, often resulting from a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between racism and other forms of discrimination, as well as the relationship between racialisation and power.”
Ms Chandler also asked the Commissioner about statements he made in an interview earlier this year calling Australia Day racist and saying it shouldn’t be celebrated.
“Australia Day is ‘invasion day’ for our first nations brothers and sisters and is a day of mourning in many ways, and is not a day to be celebrated, and not to acknowledge that just compounds racism,” Mr Sivaraman was quoted as saying, but he told Ms Chandler he meant Australia Day was a day not to be celebrated “for some first peoples”.
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