Thursday, November 22, 2018

Really disturbed by the current discussion about immigration. Looks like the extreme red-neck right are having a field day. "Let's not let in anyone who is not like us." By "us", thay mean 'Aussie!!!' By "Aussie", they mean roughly anglo-celtic, foul-mouthed, narrow minded, beer drinking, misogynistic, self centered, bigoted, nominal but non practicing, non-believing Christians. By "Christian", they don't know what they believe but it excludes everyone who isn't like ""us" . . . or who looks as though they aren't us in some way. Indeed, 'we' should send anyone back who happens to be here already, isn't an 'us', and who looks sideways in a different way. Some would deport indigenous Australians if they could. What right do we have, who've been here for a mere 200-ish years, to dictate who should or should not build a future for themselves, their children and their children's children, here? We have no intrinsic claim to this, or any other particular patch of the planet. Neither does anyone else. I guess the only fair thing would be to do away with our artificially created concept of nationhood and national borders. Well . . . There goes the Olympic Games. I'll get out of your hair.

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