- When the populatiin was all British, the English, Irish, Scottish etc all hated each other
- The catholics, CoE and all the other brands of christians hated each other. They’re OK with each other now they can all hate on the Muslims
- When Greeks, Italians and other Europeans started migrating well, all the British lineages hated them.
- When asians started arriving, well all the above started hating on them
The one constant is that everyone seems to have always hated on the Indigenous Australians. Cue Alanis Morrisette.
I came here from france when i was a kid so ive had this happen a lot.
My first big one was when the government said sorry back in the 2000s and there was a big fear (at least where i was on the Sunny Coast) that our tax return would be given away (or something like that). I had a few people that had never shown any racisim around me say to me that they would rather “gas the lot of em before they would give them a cent” and thats the censored version.
Until that point i had heard racist jokes but it was always “just a joke” or “mate its just edgy humour” but that moment was some weird deep hate shit i did not understand
She’s spot on!
Absolutely. I was born overseas and am a white, middle aged, middle class man. The amount of racism that is spewed into my ear because I look “Australian” is horrific.
One of the few regrets I have in life is that it took me years to be brave enough to call it out as it happens.
Edit: deleted my standalone comment because it was supposed to reply to this one
I was born here and am white. Had an Indian and Greek guy complaining about the Somalians at the park the other day. Anyone can be racist.
Yeah my mom came to the US from England on a green card. It didn’t take her long to read between the lines what people meant when people called her “one of the good ones” when she would point out that she would also be deported if they kicked out all the immigrants.
I was born in Europe and it also annoys me that some people who immigrated around the same time as this lady, such as my family, now criticise and stereotype newer immigrants as if they’ve forgotten what their experience was like. It’s like now we can be with the ‘kool kids’ and can bully someone else 🙄
The old ladder pull is one of the most vile mechanisms
I was born in burwood but i will absolutely go fucking feral on anyone talking shit about immigrants and refugees
My mother’s side of the family literally came here because being white redheads in Australia before the advent of airconditioning was still preferable to living as irish in Ireland under british rule. Some came later due to the famine.
Tell me, how the fuck is that any different to modern tales.
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My grandmother’s sister moved to Australia in the early 60’s with her then husband and their two children. I assume she must’ve felt the same way.
If she’s alive you could ask her or her children who’d probably be grandparents now.
I never thought of asking actually, would be really interesting to know.
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