02-06-2020, 05:42 AM
(02-06-2020, 02:11 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:^^
I stated grow up with the surname opoulos and you will find out how racist Australia can be.
Not that Australia is racist.
I think that your statement would be more acceptable if was along the lines, "Some (or many) Australians are racist." To state that "Australia is racist" or "Australians are racist" is falling into the same basket as those racists who believe that they can categorise folk on the basis of race or ethnicity.
I fully accept how difficult it must have been as a migrant or child of a migrant in the mid 20th century. I was from one of three protestant families in our street and the overt and covert bigotry from the catholic majority was relentless. Times have changed and no-one gives a fat rat's clacker about one's religion now ... unless you happen to be Muslim.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball