Misinformation
A recent 3 News bulletin reported the case of an Australian police officer who was stood down. The policeman is accused of covering up several instances of violence by middle-eastern gangs while prosecuting the white mobs who rioted in Cronulla a while ago. The report was the first official media report I'd seen about something I strongly suspected: that when the Aussie yobbos mobbed together through txt msg "bash the lebbos", it was more than the media portrayal of racist Australians going out and gang-bashing innocent middle-eastern immigrants.
I don't see the so-called "Cronulla race riots" as purely racially motivated. My dictionary defines (condensed) racism as:
abusive or agressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of a belief that there are hereditary cultural characteristics in a race that makes it intrinsically superior to another (emphasis mine).
The media has, for the most part, implied that the riots were simply ugly racism. However, the riots weren't because middle-easterners are inferior in Australia. They seemed to be primarily a reaction against malevolent and increasing acts of violence and general anti-social behaviour by certain members of ethnic groups who come from cultures where guns and violence are the way to assert yourself, who are impoverished and irate about it, feel no connection with Australia and its people, and who try to take over and control city blocks, beaches and neighbourhood parks.
Also, the media (in NZ anyway) did not report the retailation of the middle-eastern gangs against the yobbo uprising, which did not target the trouble-makers but white tourists, families or bystanders who had the bad luck of strolling through their streets at the wrong time.
I don't condone the actions taken by Cronulla residents against the middle-easterners.
But I do see the long-standing ethnic conflict behind it, and until Australian authorities, police, policy-makers and media recognise it and look at ways to resolve it rather than hiding it under the veil of political-correctness, I will not condemn them either.
I don't see the so-called "Cronulla race riots" as purely racially motivated. My dictionary defines (condensed) racism as:
abusive or agressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of a belief that there are hereditary cultural characteristics in a race that makes it intrinsically superior to another (emphasis mine).
The media has, for the most part, implied that the riots were simply ugly racism. However, the riots weren't because middle-easterners are inferior in Australia. They seemed to be primarily a reaction against malevolent and increasing acts of violence and general anti-social behaviour by certain members of ethnic groups who come from cultures where guns and violence are the way to assert yourself, who are impoverished and irate about it, feel no connection with Australia and its people, and who try to take over and control city blocks, beaches and neighbourhood parks.
Also, the media (in NZ anyway) did not report the retailation of the middle-eastern gangs against the yobbo uprising, which did not target the trouble-makers but white tourists, families or bystanders who had the bad luck of strolling through their streets at the wrong time.
I don't condone the actions taken by Cronulla residents against the middle-easterners.
But I do see the long-standing ethnic conflict behind it, and until Australian authorities, police, policy-makers and media recognise it and look at ways to resolve it rather than hiding it under the veil of political-correctness, I will not condemn them either.
posted by Andrew | 1:16 PM
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