Anti-racist signs will remain on display in some of Sydney’s most affluent suburbs after a push to remove them from streets in the inner east narrowly failed.
Woollahra Municipal Council voted 8-7 to keep the “racism not welcome” signs in their current locations after a contentious debate on Monday night.
Three Liberal councillors originally proposed removing all 12 red signs from the local government area (LGA) because they created the “false impression that Woollahra locals are racists”.
A compromise proposal to remove the signs from residential streets and reposition them in public areas such as parks and transport hubs failed after councillor Mary-Lou Jarvis insisted the signs be removed from the area entirely.
Ms Jarvis said she was distressed by how the “politically correct” signs had set residents in the area against each other.
“This has divided the council, it’s divided the community.”
Mary-Lou Jarvis, Woollahra councillor
“This has divided the council, it’s divided the community,” she said. “It’s wokeism writ large and has created division where there wasn’t any before. This is all about making people feel good rather than taking actions to reduce racism.”
She added: “I hope the people who got us into this mess feel good about what they’ve done.”
Ms Jarvis said she was reflecting the concerns of residents upset that the “race-based politics” of the inner-city were being imported to the eastern suburbs.
Other residents told her they went to local parks to escape politics but were instead confronted by anti-racist signs which they regarded as “graffiti to the eye”.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/push-to-remove-woke-anti-racist-street-signs-from-woollahra-fails-20220215-p59wkk.html
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2 comments:
Racism is not welcome; likely pushed by the same people that think it is a good idea for the next Scotus to meet two qualifications - she must be black.
If you need to have signs in your neighborhood declaring that then you've got a serious problem as that's something that should be a given, no matter what neighborhood you live in.
The reality is this is just posturing by those who want to think they're doing something good.
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