The utter irony of all this is that you are railing against people ‘talking down‘ to you, and that is exactly what you did to the guy in the other threads.
With only a paragraph to go in in his original thread, you effectively told him he’s lying, and accused him of trying to stir up racism simply because he said he was a ”black man”. I don’t know what country you emigrated from (so as to excuse any expectation that you’re aware of Australian history), and I am of Anglo-Saxon heritage (the relevance of which is that I can only go off what I perceive as a ‘white man’), but I’d hazard a guess to say that I know enough to be able to state that there’s sufficient indication in the world - including Australia, historically and to a lesser extent currently - that being a black man in the stated situation could be an unfortunately relevant fact.
Your comments, including those in the other thread of ‘go back to where you came from’ and again accusing him of trying to ‘stir things up’, give the distinct indication that you were invalidating his question. Essentially, your responses could be boiled down to, “You’re lying, this didn’t happen. You’re only trying to cause trouble by playing the ‘racism card’; it’s not needed or wanted. Stop wasting everyone’s time. We’ve got enough to deal with. Go back to where you came from.” How incredibly dismissive of you. No wonder the guy hasn’t replied.
I think you answered that guy’s question in such a stunning, incredibly assumptive, and unfounded attack on his question. I think you said enough in your utter dismissal of him to give a clear indication that, yes, what he says happened to him is possible because look at the treatment he gets for simply asking a question about it - shut up, you’re lying, you’re a troublemaker, go back to where you came from.
I obviously don’t know if he is an indigenous man, but I can only imagine what it might feel like to be told ‘go back to where you came from’ if he is. That comment alone, in and of itself, is racist. If he actually is indigenous, it’s not only racist but objectively insulting.
Again, the irony...
With only a paragraph to go in in his original thread, you effectively told him he’s lying, and accused him of trying to stir up racism simply because he said he was a ”black man”. I don’t know what country you emigrated from (so as to excuse any expectation that you’re aware of Australian history), and I am of Anglo-Saxon heritage (the relevance of which is that I can only go off what I perceive as a ‘white man’), but I’d hazard a guess to say that I know enough to be able to state that there’s sufficient indication in the world - including Australia, historically and to a lesser extent currently - that being a black man in the stated situation could be an unfortunately relevant fact.
Your comments, including those in the other thread of ‘go back to where you came from’ and again accusing him of trying to ‘stir things up’, give the distinct indication that you were invalidating his question. Essentially, your responses could be boiled down to, “You’re lying, this didn’t happen. You’re only trying to cause trouble by playing the ‘racism card’; it’s not needed or wanted. Stop wasting everyone’s time. We’ve got enough to deal with. Go back to where you came from.” How incredibly dismissive of you. No wonder the guy hasn’t replied.
I think you answered that guy’s question in such a stunning, incredibly assumptive, and unfounded attack on his question. I think you said enough in your utter dismissal of him to give a clear indication that, yes, what he says happened to him is possible because look at the treatment he gets for simply asking a question about it - shut up, you’re lying, you’re a troublemaker, go back to where you came from.
I obviously don’t know if he is an indigenous man, but I can only imagine what it might feel like to be told ‘go back to where you came from’ if he is. That comment alone, in and of itself, is racist. If he actually is indigenous, it’s not only racist but objectively insulting.
Again, the irony...
