this is sadly a pattern we see again and again and again. The Italian and Greek violence - mostly driven by white Australians othering and fucking them up, then a couple generations down everyone’s integrated and its unimaginable not having them part of our makeup. In the 80’s and 90’s it was the Viet community, same deal. 2000’s we had Somalis, but then it was rapidly overtaken by Muslim - usually Turks and Lebanese then we ended up with a four way shitfight between the white aussies and the Greeks and the Turks and the Lebanese, but also anything in a post 911 world has absolutely fucked up not only people from the middle east but *also *anyone who adheres to Islam because people are fucking idiots.
And now we have diaspora Africans getting the othering treatment, and some of them are Muslim, so we’re fucking them six ways to sunday, having right wing shitheads leap on politicising any action then pulling a suprised pikachu when traumatised refugees react badly to being shat on again.
And at the end of the day the problem is never the immigrants or the refugees. It’s the reactionaries who want us all to be greedy little pigboys afraid of other humans who keep creating self fulfilling prophecies
I genuinely don’t think I have anything to add to that. It’s all just so petty and tawdry.
On a related note I think it’s worth mentioning that this is all accelerated by a 24 hour news cycle and the amount of right-wingers who insist on dragging American culture wars and politics over to Australia, I’m guessing because our own politics aren’t dramatic enough for them, which then platforms the worst sort of people.
Maybe that’s reaping what we sewed considering we exported Rupert. Now we are importing hate & radicalism on-top of our own domestic stock.
this is sadly a pattern we see again and again and again. The Italian and Greek violence - mostly driven by white Australians othering and fucking them up, then a couple generations down everyone’s integrated and its unimaginable not having them part of our makeup. In the 80’s and 90’s it was the Viet community, same deal. 2000’s we had Somalis, but then it was rapidly overtaken by Muslim - usually Turks and Lebanese then we ended up with a four way shitfight between the white aussies and the Greeks and the Turks and the Lebanese, but also anything in a post 911 world has absolutely fucked up not only people from the middle east but *also *anyone who adheres to Islam because people are fucking idiots.
And now we have diaspora Africans getting the othering treatment, and some of them are Muslim, so we’re fucking them six ways to sunday, having right wing shitheads leap on politicising any action then pulling a suprised pikachu when traumatised refugees react badly to being shat on again.
And at the end of the day the problem is never the immigrants or the refugees. It’s the reactionaries who want us all to be greedy little pigboys afraid of other humans who keep creating self fulfilling prophecies
I genuinely don’t think I have anything to add to that. It’s all just so petty and tawdry.
On a related note I think it’s worth mentioning that this is all accelerated by a 24 hour news cycle and the amount of right-wingers who insist on dragging American culture wars and politics over to Australia, I’m guessing because our own politics aren’t dramatic enough for them, which then platforms the worst sort of people.
Maybe that’s reaping what we sewed considering we exported Rupert. Now we are importing hate & radicalism on-top of our own domestic stock.