Australia’s far-left Race Discrimination Commissioner has released a report on racism at universities that is biased against White Australians and recommends they be replaced by ethnic minorities in the tertiary sector workforce.
The Indian-born bureaucrat, who collects a taxpayer-funded salary package of $408,000 a year but calls Australia “stolen land”, wants Australia Day moved and says White people can’t experience racism, unveiled the Racism@Uni report with Education Minister Jason Clare in Brisbane on Tuesday.
Mr Sivaraman called the report “harrowing reading” and said it showed “racism is deeply embedded within our universities”, and delivered 47 recommendations, including one demanding more funding for the Australian Human Rights Commission to conduct more reviews.
The report used a far-left definition of racism that includes “harassment, abuse, humiliation, microaggressions, violence and intimidation” in regards to “institutional and structural arrangements that produce inequity and privilege dominant White, Western norms and systems that may dehumanise, exclude, or marginalise individuals, groups, cultures and religions”, and as a result did not address racism against White Australians.
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The accounts included “racism” complaints about allegedly being ignored, having names mispronounced, being excluded in group assignments, seeing White people and Asian people sitting at different tables, and finding it difficult to do group work with people from other backgrounds.
In one grammatically incorrect complaint, an Indian student claimed a professor accused them of buying an assignment or using AI to write it, and in another an aboriginal student complained about being told they “couldn’t use indigenous knowledges (sic) or standpoint in my PhD because there was no such thing as them”.
Other aboriginal students complained about an Indigenous Studies course being “taught and owned by White people”, and that learning about the supposed harms of colonialism was “retraumatising”.
A Middle Eastern staff member complained about a build-up of so-called micro-aggressions that included “saying someone had a funny accent”, an Asian staff member complained that student feedback was “gendered, sexist and racialised”, another non-White staff member said her university’s anonymous feedback system “reproduced structural racism”, and a Jewish participant complained that it was “systemically racist” that most people on their university’s council were White.
Another aboriginal participant complained that being asked how to recognise and respect cultural diversity forced them to bear “cultural load”, a student complained about racism support psychologists being White, and a Muslim staff member said it was racist that she had to use her own personal leave to take time off on Muslim holidays, but not Christmas.
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