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wayneL said:
I love real clowns.

However, you seem to be having trouble with colloquial English idiom (potential tautology notwithstanding ;)), highlighting the non sequitur.
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Inference: "clowns are actually creating racism".
Idiomatic translation: it is the stupid people who instigate racism.
In your statement, you have set yourself apart from these "clowns".
Your inference was not in relation to circus clowns, unless you want to logically shoot yourself in the foot.
It does not seem unreasonable to infer that you do not like stupid people because they instigate racism.
Using idiom, that can translate to "I fear stupid people as they create racism."
 
Is racism only such if it is against persons who are in your country? If they are elsewhere with none in your country is it OK to discuss them in a racist manner? Problem coming from all this appears when they do arrive and carrying on as before.

I met a comedian who travelled over from Ireland and went to Scotland, England, USA, Australia and NZ. He said he had to alter his jokes depending on where he was. Even his party songs. He'd be lynched otherwise. From this does it mean a person needs to become a good actor and just pretend? He got used to telling jokes about the Irish. Especially the true one when they built an overflow pipe to a lake that came out about 5 metres above the highest point it ever reached. Never mentioned in England that all the calculations were done by an Englishman.

So many people act or pretend they are not racist. Maybe as a Judge did say, "You don't have to like a person". If a person lives in a town where all are Aussies going way back it is easy to say, I'm not racist. If you live in an area where people in large numbers from other countries arrive speaking mainly there own first language and living quite differently to Aussies it becomes more of a test. Especially for elderly people who find it more difficult to adapt.

I've lived in several countries and of course the favourite for an American is to pretend they don't no where Australia is. Maybe a town in Alaska. Or in Canada smiling when an Englishman says I come from London, England. Or in London pretending to an Aussie they didn't know they don't drink certain lagers exported there from Australia. It's natural for a country to prefer bad news from abroad that makes them seem better and look down on them a bit. The UK likes Aussie fires that seem to cover most of Australia and storms that reek havoc. High temperatures and droughts so bad that all animals are dying.

Gone slightly off subject there, but there you goes.
 
noirua said:
Is racism only such if it is against persons who are in your country? .
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That is so racist :speechless:.
Seriously, I don't know how people want to define it. But if you knew an American had professed his hate for "x" and had an arsenal to solve the problem, I cannot see national borders preventing anyone calling him/her/other "racist".
My personal view is that if one regards people of another race as "inferior" and makes comments to that effect which could not be reasonably sustained, then they are likely to have racist tendencies.
I am sure everyone has their own yardstick for assessing the reach of racism.
 
rederob said:
Inference: "clowns are actually creating racism".
Idiomatic translation: it is the stupid people who instigate racism.
In your statement, you have set yourself apart from these "clowns".
Your inference was not in relation to circus clowns, unless you want to logically shoot yourself in the foot.
It does not seem unreasonable to infer that you do not like stupid people because they instigate racism.
Using idiom, that can translate to "I fear stupid people as they create racism."
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Misrepresentative sophistry is not an argument rederob, especially if you have to bludgeon language into submission with a cricket bat.

I stand firmly behind my comment.
 
I will be proven on the right sideof history.

No holes to be seen mt Marxist friends
 
sptrawler said:
On the subject, can racism, be against whites?
If it is, can it be reported?
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Racism against whites is simply minorities getting their own back for perceived misdeeds, just as radical feminism is simply a revenge game against males as is the LGB's cries of "homophobia" against anyone who dares to criticise them.
 
SirRumpole said:
Racism against whites is simply minorities getting their own back for perceived misdeeds, just as radical feminism is simply a revenge game against males as is the LGB's cries of "homophobia" against anyone who dares to criticise them.
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Oh that's good good, next time I'm given a serve, I will tell them that.:roflmao:

My wife availed herself of a wash room, on the Perth rail line, an aboriginal girl about 10 years old, asked my wife what she was doing in her Country.
It is obviously getting weird.
 
Racism can be from any one group of people to another although racism against whites doesn't occur much here in Australia. Put it this way, as an older Australian I have never been able to not enter or do something due to what and who I am, a white Caucasian. On the other hand I have lived overseas for long periods of time and I have felt the evil presence of racism over there.

Racism is so wrong on every level. One group of people thinking they are more human than the other group. Thinking they are more entitled, or should have a better job, or should be in charge, or should get more and are willing to commit crimes against the minority group to achieve this purpose. Some people in power (like police) would even do corrupt acts just so the locals look up to them more. I'm mostly talking about developing countries where it is the norm for government officials to be corrupt.

We here in Australia are supposedly first world country, with laws that apply to each person equally. A corrupt Police Officer would lose their job should they cross the line. Yet with all the protections all people have there are some old fashioned closet racists around the would like to ignore history and turn back the hands of time. It wasn't uncommon back in the 70's when a higher position job would come up where perhaps a Indian person was going to apply for it and in the locker room some of boys would say to the one of the interview panel guys, "I hope that little black c**t doesn't get that job". No respect back then, no laws to stop that, it was terrible in a workplace like that.

The world would be a much better place if all humans across the globe were treated equally. You know right now there are many nationals of countries who still can't travel overseas because of the passport they hold and the country they come from because our Western Governments treat them differently to other more lucky passport holders. In other words our Western Governments won't even issue them a tourist visa. What an absolute crap house world we live in. And to think some people want to continue this inequality is just insane.

Racism is evil, it has never worked and it never will. It always ends with many people being losing their lives. In some cases, millions of lives. Peace everyone, and hope for a better world.
 
You say:
Put it this way, as an older Australian I have never been able to not enter or do something due to what and who I am, a white Caucasian.
Are we living in the same country:
Can i as a white male eat a dugong?
My son get the same amount of study help as an aboriginal boy?
There is a legal or supposed to be legal discrimination based on race heresupposely for the good, the positive discrimination so liked by us liberals..
 

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