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OT: Human Rights Framework 2-May-2010 At 2:51:56 PM Mr Milk

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Hendo,

It saddens me that this xenophobic and isolationist rubbish persists in modern Australia. Illiteracy aside, I find it difficult to comprehend your argument beyond a transparent, racist loathing of that which you are unwilling to understand.

A recurring theme in your posts is this idea of ‘relative discrimination’: that somehow an analogy of a restaurant hiring staff of a certain race justifies a larger, more blanketed cultural repression and racial segregation. You confuse racial prejudice with racial differentiation, and you ultimately do a very poor job of defending your unreasonable and frightening xenophobia.

In an even more disturbing rant of yours, you implicitly justify the cultural genocide and torturous repression of the Australian aboriginal people by arguing it reasonable to expect the Australian continent to have been “conquered”. Such hurtful racially prejudice sentiments are an unforgivable insult to a race for which—due to events beyond the control of you or I—we ought to owe solemn regret.

Angered as I may be, in responding to your posts I am encountering much difficulty in seriously addressing any of your points; your largely unintelligible “rules of the jungle” paragraph being a fine example. Yes, human rights do indeed exist in our imagination: they are the result of reasoned moral philosophy, thankfully not conjured up by moronic people such as yourself. We can only look at mistakes of the past—cultural repression, genocide, slavery—and guide society to an enlightened and socially harmonious existence. That bigots such as yourself must suffer the supposed indignity of hearing a foreign language on your way to the store simply brings me great pleasure.

Nobody is “forcing” culture upon you. Australia is not “overrun with Asians”. The cause of your prejudice I can only suppose, but my only suggestion is that you lock yourself in your room, post a “No Asians” sign on your door, and grow old in splendid, lonely, isolation. You may be inclined to peer out the windows on occasion and sneer at the different coloured people enjoying their lives. Assuming you can’t be convinced to share your world with other races, I see your bigoted views being buried with you as a preferable outcome to this hurtful soapbox rant.

I am loathe to waste too much time addressing your irrational argument. You are but a blight on an otherwise fantastic country.