Victorian coroner condemns ‘systemic racism and paternalism’ in child protection system after inquest into 17-year-old’s death
  • Dalek Thal
    11·
    6 months ago

    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
        5·
        6 months ago

        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.

    • EchinodermEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      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.