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Racism triumphant

Here’s a classic example of the way the media boosts racism so it can feed off it:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sun-sea-and-slurs-racism-revisits-our-beaches/2006/10/15/1160850814497.html
If you read the story you realise that the people being interviewed played down the idea that the incident at Maroubra was motivated by racism, but of course there’s nothing sexy in a story like that …. thus the headline. And if there was any racism it appears to have been by Maroubra locals against people from an unspecified ‘Asian’ ethnic background. However I’m sure Peter Debnam will see the hand of those 200 middle-eastern thugs in the affair somewhere.