Race

[marharth]

One of the most interesting things I find about racism is this:

 

In a good number of cases, the calls of "that was racist!" come not from those who were supposedly vilified, but from those Left Wing Cultural Elite Do-Good Activists who think that they know better than everyone who was ever born.

Can you explain that in more detail?

 

 

 

I made this topic to try to discuss the issues of racism now days, and general discrimination. Of course it makes sense to go back into history to make points but can everyone try to stay on topic of "Issues with racism now?"

 

Certainly.

 

Here in Australia, the previous state government - LABOR government, I might add, now thankfully booted from office - introduced, in one of its radical social engineering programs, the Racial Vilification laws. These laws put the burden of proof onto the accused to prove that they did NOT do as alleged, rather than make the accuser prove that the crime was committed. Guilty until proven innocent. Fortunately, no-one is stupid enough to push these laws to their advantage, because they know that a very large and uncomforatble spotlight (ie the public eye) would be shone on them if they did.

 

Here in Australia we are constantly inundated with bleeding hearts and vocal minority groups who scream discrimination. Most of the times its the bleeding hearts who claim to be acting on behalf of these minority groups, and in a lot of cases the minority group aren't the ones screaming.

 

In 2007 our newly-elected Prime Minister felt the need to apologise to the indigenous people for crime committed against them - crimes done 150 years ago by British settlers, not crimes committed two years earlier by white Australians. I didn't do anything wrong, and I wasn't even born when these crimes were committed, so why was I lumped in with the apology? But it was a "popular" choice, to appease the bleeding hearts who think that being white is a sin.

 

People like these - such as the Civil Liberites group, who push for the rights of the minorities at the expense of the rights of the majority who just want to be left to go about their business - spend a lot of their time looking for things they can scream about. An issue might be totally innocuous, and is possibly resolved amicably, but we then have these do-gooders who interfere and re-open the barn door and make the horses stampede.

 

So, yes, racism exists today. But in a number of cases it's not the mixed races complaining about it.

A lot of the time the people who are being oppressed by racism are not powerful enough to get their views out.

 

I would disagree with taking rights from the majority to give to the minority, but it seems to me that its supposed to be balanced.