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Pies4shaw wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/28/go-ahead-white-australia-eat-your-kebabs-while-you-remind-us-of-your-values
Your father is a stateless Palestinian man who is invited to Australia on a Sydney University scholarship.
Your mother escapes Nasser's Egypt to come to a properous, stable country.

Which way will you look at the country that has given your family so much?
Your options are:

a) Australia is a wonderful place that has given my family safety, opportunity and wealth.
Even better, it has allowed me, the child of muslim immigrants, to become a lawyer, sociologist and successful author.

b) Australia is a racist hellhole run by evil crackas.

If you choose option (b) please feel free to buy a ticket, get on a plane and f**k off.
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I would've thought that he could answer A and still understand that B can be close to be being correct as well? I prefer he stays!
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Fair point. But the article was pretty much all (b).
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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Um, why are you assuming that I'm one of the "us" and not one of the "immigrants and children of immigrants".
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Welcome. We need more Palestinians.
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Mugwump wrote: Where are the genocide, the mass graves? There are none.
You don't count Tasmania as part of Australia?

Even on the mainland, there has been many a massacre of indigenous people.
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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What does trivilialise it to say that by world standards the organized bloodshed was not large ?
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