Posted on 02/04/2010 4:06:30 PM PST by naturalman1975
IT'S because so many people want to believe Australians are racist that Jaspreet Singh became the latest fake example of our evil.
Singh, a 29-year-old Indian "student", turned up last month burned to a crisp, with a tale of having been attacked in Essendon by four racists with a can of petrol.
The story smelled from the start, and not just of premium unleaded. Police even warned it sounded suss, starting with this notion that gangs roam Essendon late at night with cans of petrol, looking for Indians to burn.
But what followed is a golden example of a phenomenon that's made this country seem like a madhouse lately. If people really want to believe something they will, and facts barely matter. Indeed, facts are then evil.
That's why so many millions believe in the "stolen generations", for instance, especially when no one can name even 10 children stolen just for being Aboriginal.
That's why millions more are sure man is heating the world dangerously, even when the planet has cooled for more than eight years.
And that's why so many of our preacher-teacher class, from academics to ABC broadcasters, have so eagerly insisted that every Australian (except themselves, funnily) is a racist redneck - a smugly self-regarding lie they're now shocked to see is believed of them, too, by an Indian media only too happy to pander to its own chip-on-the-shoulder xenophobes.
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Just as well he didn't mention the now singed Jaspreet by name, because here's what we read this week of our latest martyr to Australian racism: "Singh, 29, of Grice Crescent, Essendon, in the city's north, faced an out-of-sessions hearing early this morning ... charged with making a false report to police and criminal damage with a view to gaining a financial advantage."
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
Don’t be silly. Everyone knows that only Americans are racist.
Geez, it’s as bad there as it is here, right down to the media not mentioning it when the attackers are Somalis, not white Australian “rednecks.” Another country enjoying the benefits of its own generous immigration policy and colorful diversity.
In Australia, there has been a spate of violent attacks against Indian students, largely by Lebanese immigrants (read: Muslims).
The problem now is that the local media here refuses to acknowledge the ethnic identity of the attackers, i.e., the Lebanese, and is using this particular exception to sort of, attempt to sidetrack that issue.
The Lebanese, if you recall, were also responsible for the Cronulla riots from a couple of months ago.
Only white conservative Americans who believe Bambi is a Marxist.
I think you folks need to adopt the Tea Party label down there and send shockwaves across the globe.
Yet their "presence" level differs greatly. There are no Dutch, Filipino, Indian, Maltese, or Welsh gangs, "social groups", ethnic representatives, whatever making headines.
Redneck mobs would be better behaved.
All his time I was under the impression that the Redneck species only native to the Southeastern United States?
Invasive species?
I do hope they did not bring any kudzu or Asian carp!
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