Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 4
th, 2011 at 10:29am:
adelcrow wrote on Mar 4
th, 2011 at 6:43am:
This is more of a result of socio economic circumstances than anything else
Adel is spot on with this.
It's got little to do with 'racism' or 'boat people' etc but more to do with the area and the sort of people who live there.
There has been areas of crap people in Australia for decades.
You know where they are, you know what sort of people they are, you know they exist - they have always acted like this.
You just keep away from them and let them be.
Hence my love of gated communities in San Diego.
We don't have to see or hear this sort - but if you want it, you know where you can find it.
The fact the girl is Muslim or coloured is just another insult in the bag for them - it'd get the same if the girl was fat etc.
Whilst that may be true for the trigger incident in the school yard, the subsequent incidents involving the
groups of parents were extraordinary - some 40 parents divided along 'cultural' lines - and the issues of race and religion were prominent (not just in the Facebook comments but also in the manner in which the parents and Police discussed it in the media)...
I think it is wrong to play down the insidious impacts of many years of serial almost-daily
selective news reporting of racial and religious violence - reinforced by commentary from prominent political leaders and propagandists stereotyping, demonising and vilifying to justify warmongering efforts...
We should be alarmed, when a decade of this is topped off by weeks and days of intense political propaganda designed to incite and/or justify inter-religious and inter-racial distrust, fear and hatred - as was associated with the Xmas Island boat tragedy and subsequent funerals...
Inevitably, there is the ever-increasing risk that majority group
extremists can feel validated in their prejudicial beliefs - and emboldened to bully even the most
moderate members of the systematically-demonised minority group/s...