Is racism a particularly large problem in Australia?

Ive been reading the email to crikey.com.au thats appeared on a few blogs from a horrified bystander who watched it all unfold and jeez. Talk about a blind mob.

Apparently a lot of that violence was skinhead gangs or some crap.

Thankfully, we live in slightly more enlightened times...but the whole bogan underclass still remains and came out in force on Sydney on Sunday. The same bogan underclass that hates "un-ostralian shit, mate" and intelligence. The same bogan underclass that actually give Pauline Hanson her fifteen minutes of ill-gotten fame before John Howard took her policies wholesale. The same bogan underclass who gives us this ultra-neo-conservative federal government that ironically will make their pathetic lives even more worthless. And they'll vote 'em in again and again.

im really suprised this didn't happen sooner. every summer all you would hear is 'look at all the fuckin' wogs driving from blacktown to our beach! go home!'.the sutherland shire is like a world of its own and its completely entrenched in hate. you really couldnt pay me enough to go back to cronulla.

KHE SAHN!

Clifton Evers, a lecturer in gender studies at the University of Sydney, said the dominant male ego was a highly regarded part of surf culture and the Cronulla riot was an attempt to maintain ownership of the beach.

He dismissed the attack on the North Cronulla lifesavers as the trigger for Sunday's melee, saying the surf culture and the lifesaving movement were often at loggerheads over the use of waves and there was little love lost between both groups.

"The SLSC movement and surfing is a male world grown out of control. Listening to the guys' chants on Sunday, it's clear the protest was an inversion of victimhood," Dr Evers said.

"They kept saying: 'Our world is under attack, our woman need defending, our way of life was under attack.' Of course, nothing of the sort was going on. The whole thing is an attempt to shore up the privileges they enjoy as gatekeepers of the beach culture."

Dr Evers thought that what perhaps the riot displayed most was the power of mateship.

"Most of those guys wouldn't have had a clue. They could be wound up by all the fascist groups in the world and wouldn't know. But they could have been there because one of their mates reckons the outsiders [needed] to be taught a lesson," he said. "And, you know, all those young blokes driving to the beach suburbs in their cars from the western suburbs to fight are being driven by the same thing - mateship.

"You hate who your mates hate. In Australia, mateship is stronger than racism."

Please explain this because a) it makes no farking sense, b) I dont think anyone's blamed Italian immigrants for anything, c) you are an american, you have no idea wtf is behind all this.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/alan-jones-i-led-this-charge/2005/12/12/1134236003153.html

Alan Jones is a right wing talkback shockjock DJ. He is foul and unrepentingly stupid. And he said this, among other things:

When John called on Tuesday to bluntly recommend vigilante action — "If the police can't do the job, the next tier is us" — Jones did not dissent. "Yeh. Good on you, John." And when he then offered a maxim his father had picked up during the war — "Shoot one, the rest will run" — the broadcaster roared with laughter. "No, you don't play Queensberry's rules. Good on you, John."

It was horrible stuff, larded with self-congratulation. And pity poor Berta — "not of a Middle Eastern family" — who tried to argue there were two sides to this story. When she reported hearing "really derogatory remarks" aimed at Middle Eastern people on Cronulla beach, Jones cut her off: "Let's not get too carried away, Berta. We don't have Anglo-Saxon kids out there raping women in western Sydney."

*boggle*. Yeah ok. White kids don't rape, in Sydney?

Hey sedition law, cop this: KILL ALAN JONES NOW. PLEASE.

My opinion? The sooner it's destroyed, the better.

And that's my earlier question answered as well.

I am too wound up over this to be logical about it at all (Ive just caused a huge fight on my LJ because everyone misread something I said).

He has *no* cock. Therefore, he cannot be a cock. He is cockless. COCKLESS.

Melbourne has that other loathsome toad Andrew Bolt spouting the same bile in the Herald Sun, and if nothing like Cronulla happens in Springvale or somewhere like that, all it might mean is radio has more clout than the print media.

I'm not sure anything of this scale's ever happened in Melb. I'm not boasting or anything; I know places like Frankston and Dandenong and Broady are bad. But for eg: those Salt nightclub asian gang related stabbings a few years ago. That didnt result in a bunch of rabid chapel st yuppies "relcaiming our clubs".

I think it's a combination of intelligence, demographic spread, geography, and the footy.

THUS I HAVE SOLVED THE PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL

"if sydneysiders played australian rules football, they wouldn't be racist dickheads" - esteban buttezz, 2005

Just look at the games. Australian Rules is about artistic expression, covering great distances and using your head. Rugby League is just an excuse for no-necks to beat each other up.

Rugby League. Too stupid to be sport, too ugly to be porn.

PS - choke on a dick.

Oh but wait, you'd have to have been PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE THREAD to comprend this ahhh never mind why do I bother.

-- jim p. irrelevant (electricsoun...) (webmail), December 13th, 2005 12:28 AM. (electricsound) (later) (link)

Go back to England to be with the rest of "your kind".

Trayce, eat living fuck you racist bitch. Fuck you!

Here, you'll have greek/italian 2nd generation young guys being the offenders a lot of the time - starting shit, abusing asians, etc. It seems to flux.

xpost, ha I didn't even notice. Was it for this or the MSN zings?

Jon I defriended you ages ago, I got bored with the joeks is all.

Wheres Freddy Negro when we need him.

http://www.jasoncross.com/images/photo/mario_lou.jpg

ScoMo vs Dutton. Never did I envisage the day when ScoMo might seem the best candidate

Oh why wont Alan Jones just die of a heart attack already.

69 to 68 against referring Dutton’s eligibility to the high court, Trumble cast the deciding vote

fuck me, i guess I may as well just burn both passports, really lucked out with the US and Aus

so who thinks Dutton will call an election in two months, wait until May, or piss off everyone and push it until November 2019?

xpost

I voted in SF in 2013, let’s meet at the embassy and have a 13-hour FAP afterward Veg

lol

parliamentary citizenship fiasco revealed that I’m probably an NZ citizen, gotta go to LA to check at their embassy before the midterms

srs?

if Ludlam’s dad’s immigration made him a dual citizen, mine should have

(he died 24 yrs ago so I can’t check any details with him)

🚨 dude that runs concentration camps loses to dude that started concentration camps

gastro vs dysentery

Here's what I don't understand - why did those 3 senators rock up to the press yesterday and resign on the grounds that "Turnbull no longer has the numbers", and yet the spill motion result was 45-40 - meaning Turnbull would've had the numbers to block the spill, but for those 3 senators?

ScoMo's LNP I presume - well, I shouldn't, but I hope, I guess - will lose the election, which will probably mean that Dutton, Abbott & their cronies will start to say that the election would've been winnable had the LNP pandered further to racists under Sgt Dutton. I suppose it's still a better outcome than Dutton as PM now, but when "catastrophic mess resulting in bigoted moron becoming PM" still works out to be the preferred option then its hard to feel any relief.

Also fuck turnbull forever for so many reasons but especially the way he's going to claim marriage equality as his great legacy. He did everything he could to slow down that change and protect himself, and put hundreds of thousands of people (me included) through hell in the process.