>From the letters page of the SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/24/text/letters.html
Racist card
Don't you know, Mr McGuinness, that a straw argument is the weakest kind?
Apparently neither you, nor any of the the others involved in the scenario you
describe (Herald, September 23), found the incident
racist. Yet you suggest that "many people" would. Who exactly? The politically
correct? Feminazis?
Well, by your yardstick, I am both of those but I believe that I, too, would
have found nothing sinister in the incident. It is you, Mr
McGuinness, who plays the racist card here. You describe the scenario in
extraordinary detail and then proceed to admonish those
fictional people you suggest would find the incident discriminatory.
You are a fine wordsmith, Mr McGuinness, and the imagery you convey is burnt
into my brain: drunk Aborigines, including a woman,
clutching open cans of Jim Beam and Coke in a trendy Sydney street during
business hours. You go on to say that any taxi driver who
stopped for these people "would not have survived long".
I am appalled by your insinuation here. There are many who scrutinise the media
and the Internet looking for stereotypes such as this to
feed their prejudices, and I suggest that if you cannot resist the temptation to
give them what they seek, then your column space should
be given over to someone else.
A. Packman,
Kurrajong.
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