Originally Posted by shakran

Oh christ. Here we go again. This has already been settled. Hell even the mainstream public doesn't think this is an issue anymore. Those photos were taken by two different journalists working for two different newspapers that uploaded to two different wire services. There was no racism here because there was no differential treatment of these subjects by the same organization.






It is? I didn't know that. I thought the press's job was to bring news to the people, not to represent them.




If that's true then your next sentence shouldn't say anything negative about them.



Oh well. Failed that one. The last time I was in australia, EVERY person who was rude to me was a goddamn Australian! Based on your example, I'll take that to mean ALL Australians are rude.

See why it's not a good idea to stereotype? You found six aboriginals who robbed your store. You're taking that to mean the thousands of aboriginals out there will all behave the same way as the 6 individuals you sampled. That's not exactly a statistic that has a small margin of error.





Did you read this thread before you responded to it? It's been pretty much agreed that there probably wasn't racism in this case, so there's nothing to get over.

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You know the more I think about this the more annoyed I get. There's a real issue with people jumping on the "hate this profession" bandwagon. Used to be it was mainly lawyers. Everyone loved to pick on lawyers. They're all sleazy scumbags who chase ambulances for a living. Isn't it fun to snipe at lawyers. . . until of course you need one, then you go running to hire one and strangely we don't hear about sleazy lawyers any more until you win your case.

And in the last couple of decades people love to do it about the media. They're all dumpster-diving, trash-sifting, egomaniacal airheads who only want to see their face on TV. They're always out to trick you so they can get a story out there, and they'll make shit up if they want it to be more sensational.

It's real popular to hate the media, and if people don't have a good reason to rail on the media, they'll make crap up. Sounds a lot like what they accuse the media of doing in the first place.

The point is, if you jump on the "hate the (insert profession here)" bandwagon, you'd better be damn sure you have your facts straight. It's pretty stupid to denigrate a profession just because everyone else is doing it.