I couldnt bring myself to make time to watch that program even tho I found the previous one where racists met refugees actually interesting, it did show that the ideas people have are generated by governments (backed up by racist commentators given endless space in the media). When confronted with the facts ie why people are refugees, at least some of them were moved to sympathy, even empathy. Im still thinking of watching this and this article has sparked my itnerest. In particulare, these salient points Im pasting here are a reminder of who to blame for peoples racist ideas. But read the whole article, it shows what an absolute racist scum bag Mirande Devine is, something Ive been reminded of editing a forthcoming article by Vashti Jane for Marxist Left Review on Islamophobia. TV viewers were understandably outraged at the views expressed by First Contact’s cast members. But as the nation gathers to vilify them, we must remember they are a product of the nation they live in … that we all live in. A nation that struggles to teach its own history in its schools. A nation which suspends the Racial Discrimination Act to “protect” Aboriginal people. A nation that asserts its right to be bigots. A nation that insists Aboriginal people celebrate the day their country was invaded. A nation where its Prime Minister declares himself the PM for Aborigines and cuts funding to Indigenous communities; who believes Australia was “nothing but bush” before white settlement; who defines the authenticity of his colleague’s Aboriginality based on where they live and who believes that “Aboriginal women are cowering in their huts”.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:39:59 +0000
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