Re: The racism of some SRA staff

[petan@ion.com.au (petan@ion.com.au)]

Hi, what is meant by the term "Anglo Australian"? Does it mean of
Anglo Saxon / British ethnic background?

It is not part of my usual language. I am not passing judgement on
other people's newsgroup posting; merely curious!

Cheers
Peter Cokley


On Tue, 05 Jan 1999 21:57:46 +1100, Robert Harris  
 
>>         Funny, I live in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, am Anglo
>>         Australian, travel by train *every* day and find East Asian
>>         youths to be among the best behaved commuters of all.
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>Yes but the ones you see that arn't the problem. You commute, you travel one the "9
>to 5". Of course they will behave the trains are full of people. Wait untill after
>the commuters go, then its a different story. Just check CCTV footage.Youths by
>themselves are not the problem. Its the gangs with their "peer pressure" and egos.
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>>         Middle Eastern youths are about the same as Anglos,
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>Not true. My friends are MID E and agree they are a problem.
>They say that the teenagers lack respect and think the world owes them a living.
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>> which
>>         considering the racist crap they have to put with in public
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>which gets caused by the way they behave ie Hi I'm gods gift to everyone just ask me
>I'll tell you. They go on about their parents home land and say how good it is but
>have never actually been there. I asked one leb teenager why he didn't go there if
>Lebanon was so great and his reply was and I quoate "'Cause if I rape a girl here
>nothing happens. If I rape her in Lebanon I will get killed" (he was not joking and
>I confirmed it with friends)
>Nice huh?
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>>         every day of their life, including from *some* rail staff,
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>They probably deserved it.
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>>         shows pretty good restraint I think.
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>>         So make up your mind, is it Asians, kids or both you
>>         want to blame?
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>everyone I'm not racised : )
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>>         And are they 'scared' to speak out, or have no desire
>>         to cooperate with racist police?
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>Bullshit, why are the cops  rasist???
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>>         If I hear this sort of thing from SRA staff while I'm
>>         commuting, they will find that Anglos can also abuse
>>         the hell out of staff.
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>Some of use give as good as we get. Some just get the cops.
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>rgds
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