I’m not racist but…
Actually I better start that sentence again, since those words are usually a prelude to a racist statement. Right, take two. I am against racial discrimination and vilification because I’m against all forms of bullying and abuse. Last week on a Hobart bus, a man made news for reportedly unleashing a tirade of racial abuse at a woman of Indian heritage, when she interceded on the behalf of a teenage girl he was behaving in a creepy and predatory fashion towards. As I made very clear elsewhere, I am both saddened and embarrassed that I have enough ignorant and hateful countrymen (and women- I’m equal opportunity in my disgust) that members of other minorities have had to endure harassment and intimidation based on their race or religion. I should be very clear that I was pretty disgusted when I heard about the incident. However, I did find the focus on racism in this particular case to be rather blinkered, as there was a little bit more to this story. Read Full Article
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
I realised that the website was getting a little difficult to keep track of and people would have no way of keeping track of which new posts were recent. I will use this page to display links to any new articles from now on.
Archives
November 2020
Categories |