In his blog yesterday, Bolt highlighted a story
about a brawl which happened to involve some young men from an African
background. He says he’s “not certain [that] aspects of our immigration and
refugee policies are working to the advantage of Australians”.
The reality
is; he’s not actually certain that these men aren’t themselves Australian. Bolt
merely assumes that, if they’re black and look like Africans, then they must be
African migrants. Maybe they are, but then I don’t know anymore than Bolt does.
Just to
reinforce his presumptuous and racist stance, Bolt links to two other stories
about brawling in the streets apparently between young men who have an African
background.
The fact is
there are brawls just about every Friday and Saturday night in just about all
of Australia’s cities and towns and these involve young men, and sometimes
women, from all sorts of racial and ethnic backgrounds – including white
Australians. Indeed, front bar brawls for decades were a bit of an Aussie
tradition long before non-white migrants arrived in Australia.
But Bolt, of
course, only cherrypicks the stories that suit his racist propaganda while his
coterie of dedicated bloggies lap it up. Read the comments (if you can stomach
it) and see.
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