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I hate when media puts terms like racist in quotes like this. By definition, it is racist. But quoting it implies it's an invalid claim.
The treatment of Indigenous Australians in this country is disgusting, and deeply, deeply racist, even if "just" systemically.
EDIT to note the use of "just" was sarcasm, because systemic racism is a real and fucked problem, and it exists at the very core of Australian society, and if you're white and haven't actively studied it, you won't know it exists
@Dalek_Thal @Baku systematically is worse. That means it is accepted as official.
I agree, force of habit for me to dumb it down a bit because a fucktonne of people get really angry when I suggest that this is a deeply racist country, institutionally speaking. Our very laws were written to keep the Indigenous Australians down, the racism is by design.
But quoting it implies it’s an invalid claim.
Interesting. I read the quotes as meaning: someone else said it, it's not just some opinion we made up. In this case, it was reporting the coroner's official finding.
In other words, I understood it to be reinforcing the claim rather than invalidating it.
This article was genuinely hard to read. That poor girl :/
This is difficult to read. I have zero cultural context, but the pain of people being cut off is real. Do better people.
I feel really sorry for the girl. But the article does say that she had suicidal ideation even before this occurred, its overly simplistic to simply attribute her death to racism.
