(whistling while I work)
Hmmm...let's compare:
Well, I'll take the Germaine on the left for $100, Alex...
Posted on 12/15/2005 4:08:09 AM PST by Fair Go
THE Australian racism seen in Sydney recently arises from the same wellspring as British racism, says feminist and academic Germaine Greer.
It came from ignorance and working-class frustration, the social commentator said. Reflecting upon the racial violence that exploded in southern Sydney last weekend, she also criticised British media coverage of the events as "gratuitous and silly".
The British media has given the violence between young whites and Lebanese-Australians considerable attention.
It said the racially fuelled violence in Cronulla and other Sydney suburbs over the past week was the latest incarnation of the bigotry that includes discrimination against Aborigines at the time of white settlement and anti-Chinese sentiment during the gold rushes.
"Australia is as racist as Britain, no more, no less," Ms Greer said in The Guardian newspaper.
"Australian racism derives from the same bottomless source as British racism - from universal ignorance and working-class frustration, reinforced by an unshakeable conviction of British superiority over all other nations on earth, especially the swarthy ones.
"If Australia had been colonised by any other nation but the British, it would be less racist.
"As it is, it's dying hard."
Ms Greer predicted the police would be nearly powerless to stop further eruptions of trouble over the coming months.
"This looks like being a bloody summer in Australia," she said.
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Hmmm...let's compare:
Well, I'll take the Germaine on the left for $100, Alex...
Wonder how she feels about the gang rapes by the Moslems.
She was attacked a few years ago by one of her students. It was some sort of lesbian bondage/hostage scenario if my memory serves me right.
In addition to the Islamics, there is an enourmous number of Western appeasers/sympathizers that need to be dealt with as the War progresses.
They have used the parties of the working classes to advance their own elitist programs. This was obvious in Australia from the election of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1972. People such as Greer so often come across as hostile to the battlers and working classes.
You have to be white and preferably of Anglo-Celtic origin to qualify as a racist.
When he was a student at Oxford, Bill Clinton attended one of her lectures. Seems he made a pass at her.
And I wonder how many deaths in Iraq would have been avoided if these appeasers had kept their mouths well and truly shut?
Dopey Bee-itch!!!!!
I don't think you would find anyone more inconsistent than Greer. She wrote a book condemning HRT for women and later admitted to using it herself. She has expressed attraction to pre-pubescent boys (when in her sixties). Just as well she took herself off to the UK for I doubt that Aussies would tolerate her for too long. I wonder if there is any way of shipping her offshore if she ever tries to return?
I understand there are shark fishermen off the South Australian coast looking for bait!
I think even the sharks would have a job swallowing Greer. Now the crocs up north might be a little less discerning.
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