Jono is simply insane.

I don't think a Sweeney or a Toolsie ever posted anything as disgusting as the prejudiced claptrap that comes out of this fools mouth.

Igor Goldenberg is incredibly naive and uninformed. Duggan and Gray I just roll my eyes. I have given up bothering to understand them.

Michael Baron would have to be one of the worst judge of minority rights I have ever met.

In this decade German companies have been forced to compensate Jewish people who were forced to work as slaves during the holocaust. This is because a minority group was categorised and discriminated against by the Nazi's the political power at the time. Thankfully Germany is attempting to come to terms with its history.

Greetings,


A quick little observation by the goat.
Freedom of Expression is a great thing, it allows people to speak their mind. But,more importantly, it also allows other people to get insights into other peoples minds. That is, you get the balanced with the insane. Recently, however, I believe Chesschat stooped to unrecorded levels of a new low (if that was possible).

This has to be the worst thread I have ever seen on Chesschat.
http://www.chesschat.org/showthread.php?t=7672

Notice there is no censorship? I can't figure it out either. Anyway.

Some quick observations on the politics of fear.

Jono is simply insane. I don't think a Sweeney or a Toolsie ever posted anything as disgusting as the prejudiced claptrap that comes out of this fools mouth.
Igor Goldenberg is incredibly naive and uninformed.

Duggan and Gray I just roll my eyes. I have given up bothering to understand them.


Michael Baron would have to be one of the worst judge of minority rights I have ever met. In real life, Michael is a great guy, but for goodness sake he is a complete hypocrite and he needs a friend like me to tell him to get a clue. Michael there is only one race, its called the human race. Everything else is a prejudiced classification system designed by human beings.

In this decade German companies have been forced to compensate Jewish people who were forced to work as slaves during the holocaust. This is because a minority group was categorised and discriminated against by the Nazi's the political power at the time. Thankfully Germany is attempting to come to terms with its history.


Similarly, past White Australian governments deliberately removed children from Indigenous parents because they believed Indigenous cultures would be wiped out. Official public policy was to remove children off mixed marriage and turn them into "whiteys"

Now Michael, you should be able to understand why its is important for Australia to recognise its past and offer an apology. If you don't, get better informed because otherwise you simply sound like a racist redneck. I for one know that you are not that type of a person. Use your brain and think before your speak.

cheers fg7

Originally Posted by Firegoat7 View Post
I am terribly sorry for all the Aboriginal children who suffered the injustice

As a side note, this thread title really annoys me.
And I never started this thread.

cheers fg7

In my day-to-day work I occasionally have contact with Aboriginal people in places like the Northern Territory, outback QLD, and so on.

One recent case that stuck in my mind was a girl who was sexually abused over many years in a remote community. She was one of about 6 or 7 girls, all of whom were degraded in the most vile ways ... all of them, except her, have subsequently committed suicide.

Her abusers were mostly other aboriginal folk. Why her parents and other community leaders were unable to protect her I don't know. But I am wondering whether leaders of some of these Aboriginal communities are also going to say "Sorry" to those of their own people whom they so terribly abused.

This whole "stolen generations" issue is exceedingly complex, that I do know. Just saying "Sorry" is not enough. Restitution must be made for genuine wrongs committed. Without that, its hollow ... and I fear that the apology might end up doing more harm than good if its not followed up properly. Rudd and Nelson are kidding themselves if they think they can avoid the compensation issue.

There's no doubt that aboriginal health & living conditions are a national embarressment. The imperial colonisation of Australia by the British was brutal and a disgrace. The British Empire was like a plague of locust throughout the world, extracting what it could and leaving behind ruin. Other European imperialist were far worse, such as the Spanish.

We will be at our best today, and every day, if we call to place ourselves in the shoes of others, imbued with the imaginative capacity to see this issue through their eyes with decency and respect.

We cannot from the comfort of the 21st century begin to imagine what they overcame, indigenous and non-indigenous to give us what we have and make us who we are.

We do know that language, disease, ignorance, good intentions, basic human prejudices and a cultural and technological chasm combined to create a harshness exceed only by the land.

In saying we are sorry, and deeply sorry, we remind ourselves that each generation lives in ignorance of the long-term consequences of its actions.

I can't see how this speech is so bad. Maybe its just because of who he is that people reacted harshly to the speech because maybe its seen as disingenuous or something.