Australia: Must not blow the whistle on "blacks" who are really white
Conservative Australian columnist is sued for telling the truth -- that many people with only remote Aboriginal ancestry call themselves Aboriginal for the sake of the government and other benefits that can bring. My sister in law is a tall fair-skinned blue-eyed blonde but is classed as an Aboriginal under Australian law. And her paper-white daughter is too: An absurdity that NEEDS to be questioned
"Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt is being sued under the Racial Vilification Act by a group of Aborigines led by 73-year-old activist Pat Eatock over two columns he wrote last year.
In the first column, published under the headline "It’s so hip to be black" in the paper on April 15, 2009, and on his blog under the headline "White is the new black", Bolt enumerated a list of light or white-skinned people who identified themselves as Aboriginal, and suggested their choosing to do so was proof of "a whole new fashion in academia, the arts and professional activism". He added that "for many of these fair Aborigines, the choice to be Aboriginal can seem almost arbitrary and intensely political".
On August 21, 2009, Bolt revisited the topic in a column headlined "White fellas in the black", in which he derided the granting of an award for Aboriginal artists to white-skinned painter Danie Mellor and an indigenous scholarship to white-skinned academic Mark McMillan.
Financial damages are not being sought, but the group has asked for an order restraining Bolt and the Herald Sun from publishing any material containing "substantially similar" content in the future, and for the removal of the two columns from the website.
Liberty Victoria president Michael Pearce, SC, said his organisation had concerns about the potential impact on freedom of speech. "It is easy to imagine that it caused offence and hurt to the people against whom it was directed. However, hurt and offence are caused by all sorts of speech all the time. "It would be impossible to proscribe all speech which causes hurt and offence."
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2 comments:
Welcome to 21st century Australian litigation. Truth is no longer a defence. If I have a blood transfusion from an Aboriginal (who legally must be at leat 1/16 Aboriginal) can I apply for tribal recognition and queue up for the perks?
This rot has got to be the biggest load of leftist crap ever foisted on this country .
Persoanlly, less that 50% Aboriginal genes means the you are no longer entitled to be called Aboriginal but should be titled as of 'partial Aboriginal descent'. I could even be generous and extend it to 1/4 but when people who were born overseas with no possible connection can claim Aboriginal descent are recognised I call it a scam. Shut it down and start again using genetic markers.
We waste billions of dollars a year on these people when the real Aboriginals need help but are shortchanged by the pretenders.
They need to make up the numbers to keep the UN happy.
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