From Hanson to Camden: Australia’s racist shame (1 Viewer)

[jb_nc]

Mate, previous to the birth of Muhammed in 610, the English were marrying girls at younger ages so, before ripping arabs apart, take a look at your own culture.

(by your racism, I'm guessing you're Anglo)

yes well I don't follow random English person who lived prior to circa 610 as a religion. do i

 

[Skeeter]

yes well I don't follow random English person who lived prior to circa 610 as a religion. do i

Not exactly random persons. Everyone was doing it. Muhammed marrying a girl of such young age is more culture than it is religion.

 

[emytaylor164]

Not exactly random persons. Everyone was doing it. Muhammed marrying a girl of such young age is more culture than it is religion.

about time an intelligent person.

 

[jb_nc]

Not exactly random persons. Everyone was doing it. Muhammed marrying a girl of such young age is more culture than it is religion.

oh ok

back in the crusades everyone was murdering muslims too

was it okay to murder islams back then too

congrats!!! you just hit a logical fallacy called "appeal to common practice" on its head.

 

[jb_nc]

Mate, I'd say fighting is more part of Aussie culture than it is Lebanese culture.

Quote the Surah in which it specifically states that molesting young girls is permitted. As far as I know, touching a girl indecently makes you liable for the death penalty.

war like outbreaks in lebanon: 5 (1958 crisis, civil war, dinnieh fighting, 2007 fighting, 2008 fighting)

war like outbreaks in australia: 0

 

[Skeeter]

war like outbreaks in lebanon: 5 (1958 crisis, civil war, dinnieh fighting, 2007 fighting, 2008 fighting)

war like outbreaks in australia: 0

Me wanting to punch you in the face is hardly comparable to a national outbreak of war. I'm saying normal fist fighting is more emminent in Aussie culture as compared to Lebanese culture.

EDIT: I'd consider the Cronulla riots as a war-like outbreak. All that was missing was guns.

 

[Slidey]

This analysis is spot on imo, australia is (or at least 95% of its people are) a laughing stock among western countries

No it's not. I'm on a few forums of predominantly European and British make-up and they tend to idealise Australia. Typically hold fairly romantic notions of it. Although I'm often asked why we give "abos" (their words) more rights than normal citizens. TBH, Europeans might preach about tolerance and political correctness, but it's actually fairly interesting how surprisingly judgemental and imperialistic they are at times; like it's all an act to make them feel superior.

Moreover, Australia is one of the most multicultural places in the world. Certainly, in today's climate of unfounded levels of political correctness, Australian is one of the most 'racist' of OECD countries, but it's extremely important to differentiate between superficial racism and heartfelt hatred/dislike (Apartheid Africa) or xenophobia (Japan). Australian racism tends to take two forms: 1) harmless ignorance 2) superficial stereotyping.

1) Tends to dominate in country Australia, but to say it is oppressive or threatening is ludicrous, and the only people I hear claiming as such are those who take 2) seriously; Australians have a wry sense of humour - if they nickname you Darkie (or Whitie for bemusement's sake), or make jokes about you having slanty eyes, they generally don't think it through too carefully, and it's generally a way of trying to interact with somebody where they don't perceive they have any common ground. What they don't tend to do, is actively try to fit you into the mold of a generic racial stereotype to justify negative treatment of you. Indeed I've found that they're far more likely to be judged on how hard they work, and how fairly they treat people. Australians, especially country Australians, respect fairness and a good sense of humour. If, however, you take offence at their jokes (unless really over the line, or unless you're nice about it and ask in a laidback way), or call them racists or something, you're probably going to cop it about twice as bad - and rightly so; you need to grow a sense of humour if you want to get by in Australia.

I mean while you have fools ranting about how racist Australia is, we have one of the highest levels of civil contentment in the world, a legal system which vehemently opposes genuine racism, a general inability to trace our heritage to any one country, one of the most diverse ranges of ethnic groups in the world, a tertiary student cohort with over 20% of students from overseas, and a workforce with over 25% of its employees born overseas.

It's like when people make up shit like "Australia's education system is shocking, Europe/America/China/Some Country is way ahead of us.". No. Australia's education quality in maths, english and science is generally in the top 25% of all OECD countries (above America) and overall Australia is ranked 8th in the OECD for education quality. Moreover our education level is the highest of all of them, where about 70% of people finished year 12, 60% of people have a degree, diploma or certificate, and 35% of people have a degree.

 

[JaredR]

The dead pig heads on stakes wraped in the Australian flag, if a true event, is quite a scary thought. How could anyone desecrate the Australian flag on a barbarically slaughtered pig particularly aimed to instill disgusting bigoted discrimination against Islam.

 

[Riet]

Nothing annoys me more than arrogant people, discriminating against a certain religon when they have no clue about it and are basing there opinions on lies put out by society and not the beliefs themself.

I'm not descriminating against them out of ignorance, but rather because I know what they're like.

 

[Iron]

I think we're done here.