On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
I am not racist in any way.
http://www.notracistbut.com/ People who aren't racist don't need to include such disclaimers. In fact there's even a web site devoted to such disclaimers. http://www.understandingprejudice.org/apa/english/ The above URL summarises a lot of psychological research into prejudice. No matter how hard you try it's almost impossible to avoid some degree of prejudice. As an aside I don't think that you are trying at all.
All Australians born in recent times have no need for positive or negative discrimination against any other Australian.
Are you seriously claiming that white people are being discriminated against? Did you realise that pretty much everything is run by white men?
Sure Aboriginals have been disadvantaged in the past, but I don't think that is the case any longer;
People from the group in power always claim that there is no disadvantage. http://www.racialicious.com/ Racialicious has many interesting articles about racism, it seems fairly US centric though. I did a quick Google search for a similar site that covers the Aboriginal experience but didn't find anything. I did find lots of random articles about racism against Aboriginies. The evidence of disadvantage is a quick Google search away.
I think that any measures that try to offer reverse discrimination are unjust and not necessary today.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/tag/raceethnicity/ You should learn about Sociology. You can't just wave a magic wand and change attitudes throughout society. The "stolen generations" includes people who are still alive today, clear and direct racism in Australian law is something that happened within the lifetimes of about half the population of Australia. Kevin Rudd's apology for that only happened 5 years ago. When Aboriginies have the same life expectancy, the same average quality of health, and the same average income as white people then measures to help them won't be necessary. But at this time helping Aboriginal people recover from a history of mistreatment is necessary if we are to have a decent society. Also it's not "reverse discrimination".
There may be areas where Aboriginals need extra support, but that is also true of every other group of Australians whom make up our population today.
I really don't think that straight white men need extra support. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/