You're welcome, Tim. I thought you and everone else would enjoy the letter.
I usually cannot stomach reading PP but occasionally it is good to find out what kind
of racism is on offer
under the guise of 'reasonable discourse'. He doesn't usually cover it up as well as
he did in his last
article. I guess a little incoherence does tend to creep in when you're a sow's ear
pretending to be a silk
purse....
I think your suspicions about the next Quadrant will prove to be well founded.
Trudy
tdunlop wrote:
> Thanks for this, Trudy - I had missed it in today's paper. This response is
> spot on, capturing the insidious, hidden racism of the McGuinness piece.
> Much better than anything I could've written, though I have decided to
> approach him directly.
>
> Actually, if people can stomach it, next month's Quadrant under the
> editorship of Mr PP is reproducing papers from their recent conference on
> matters Indigenous. I suspect it will be a hotbed of veiled racism and
> slurring. For instance, it will include the piece that suggests that the
> stolen generation should be called the 'rescued generation'. Kind of sets
> the tone...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Tim
>
> >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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