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How racist is Australia?
A (case study) thread
A (case study) thread
Allow me to begin with an excerpt from @StephenKing's 1996 serial novel "the green mile"
Tldr: a prison guard is curious about a black death row inmate arrested for murder, so he finds the reporter who covered the murder https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eev-19fbgbgJ2ZKkDbclnTePlVuWX9sIFcmTXY0obqQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
Tldr: a prison guard is curious about a black death row inmate arrested for murder, so he finds the reporter who covered the murder https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eev-19fbgbgJ2ZKkDbclnTePlVuWX9sIFcmTXY0obqQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
Two lines I want to read are
1- ""In many ways, a good mongrel dog is like your n****," he said. "You get to know it, and often you grow
to love it. It is of no particular use, but you keep it around because you think it loves you. If you're lucky,"
1- ""In many ways, a good mongrel dog is like your n****," he said. "You get to know it, and often you grow
to love it. It is of no particular use, but you keep it around because you think it loves you. If you're lucky,"
2- ""I'm as enlightened as the next man..." "But we have
to remember that your n**** will bite if he gets the chance, just like a mongrel dog will bite if he gets the
chance and it crosses his mind to do so."
to remember that your n**** will bite if he gets the chance, just like a mongrel dog will bite if he gets the
chance and it crosses his mind to do so."
This story was set in the Southern United States in 1932, where racism, shall we say... was thriving.. This excerpt aimed to convey that blatant ugly brutal racism
Ok now that you've read that. Let me take forward in time to a more civilised, woke, post racial time, multicultural Australia
Pauline Hanson, famous dumb racist who runs in elections on dumb racist platforms and wins seats and shit. Her supporters like that she ... Says what people are thinking
In 2016 following the terror attacks in Nice, France. She posts this video https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=480861082118209&_rdr
In this video she literally says “We have laws here that we don’t bring in pitbull terriers because they are a danger to our society… we have laws to protect Australians.”
She goes on ask her followers to “pressure the government to say ‘No more Muslims in Australia’”.
She goes on ask her followers to “pressure the government to say ‘No more Muslims in Australia’”.
Now I hear you asking. Someone in the 21st century in multicultural Australia making cartoonishly racist, Stephen King fiction level racist statements, she wouldn't be tolerated in Australia, right?
Right??
Right???
Right??
Right???
4 federal seat won in 2016, 2 seats retained in 2019, 2 NSW Parliament seats won in 2019, 3 seats in QLD in 2017
She used to have a regular gig appearing on national morning shows where she puts forward her platforms and arguments wtf little to no challenge.
Paid appearances
Paid appearances
I don't know how to end this thread. I've just always been blown away that someone so blatantly racist against (first and foremost) Aboriginal people, Australians of Asian descent, African descent, Australian Muslims etc.. is still given platforms and opportunities
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