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The race double standard in action

by Lauredhel on July 1, 2008

in Violence, indigenous, law & order, race & racism, social justice

Inspired by “Child neglect cases evidence of a wider malaise – experts”:

Whitefellas abuse children	Blackfellas abuse children
Early intervention	Army intervention
Postnatal handholding	Welfare withholding
More childcare centres on hand	Seize all their land
Education with your firstborn	Ban on all booze and porn
Increase community programmes	Shut down community programmes

The double standard is also clearly illustrated in The Ugly Australian. A ten year old child who died in a stolen-car crash “got what he deserved” and was a “little criminal”. When young adults die in a speeding stolen boat “joyride” it is a “terrible tragedy” involving lovable larrikins. Guess what colour the kids were in each case?

Fucking hypocrites. We hatesss them.

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Tagged as: abuse children, army, bigotry, booze, car crash, child neglect cases, early intervention, education, hypocrites, joyride, malaise, stolen boat, tragedy, welfare, young adults

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Lauredhel is a forty-something woman with a disability. She lives in her Western Australian family home where books, Lego, and soapmaking gear constantly compete for space. She blogs about feminism, reproductive justice, freedom from violence, the use and misuse of language, medical science, being disabled, her vegetable garden, and whatever else pops into her head. Lauredhel also blogs at FWD/Forward (feminists with disabilities), scribbles at her personal dreamwidth journal Selective and Arbitrary, and co-moderates Hollaback Australia. She joined Hoyden About Town in 2007.

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1 blue milk July 1, 2008 at 10:37 pm: Abso-frickin-lutely!
2 Lauredhel July 2, 2008 at 5:00 pm: Now Howard Sattler is on the case at WA Today – parroting the line said by so many in the PerthNow thread, thanking goodness that “no innocent people were killed”.

I feel like throwing things. Maybe sharp things.