The ignorance and arrogance that still persists regarding different cultures within political and government agencies is astounding.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/03/student-banned-year-12-formal-keffiyeh-palestinian-scarf-discrimination-case
#AusPol #AusLaw #NSWPol #NSWLaw #NSWGov #Discrimination #Multiculturalism

Can Australia Find Its Way Back to Each Other?

#SocialCohesion #AusPol #TheSocialSchism #AusNews #Polarisation #Multiculturalism

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-03-can-australia-find-its-way-back-to-each-other-1f72f9e0

Context: Someone wrote a post about a reading of erotic poetry where they opined about how awkward and distasteful it would be for them to hear people the age of their parents read erotic poems.

I found this very upsetting and responded to that thread explaining why.

Hopefully they've removed that post. I can no longer see it. Though I guess it's possible they blocked me and that's why I can't see it. Either way, I'm removing the individual's name and instead just reposting my rant, which still needs saying.

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Why does age matter here?? What does that change? I can see cringing at erotica at all, like some people object to PDA, but as you age you may realize there's far less difference than you think, and how outright inhumane it is (and I don't use that as hyperbole but as literal truth) to have older humans treated as something different than "regular" humans, made to live life separately and diminished in participatory privilege. If you think it differently offensive than race segregation, maybe think harder.

It is scary enough growing old without people treating you like the walking dead who need to stop participating in regular life and just sit by and watch available time pass, kept from doing anything by people who casually and without apology talk of it like "of course it must be thus".

It may seem like just words but such words form rock hard prisons in our society. Actual enforcement of such separation occurs exactly because people shamelessly call for it in this way. It would be in many cases more humane to offer people death with dignity than require they live on in such a world that sees and treats them this way.

It's hard to overstate how angry this makes me.

#aging #discrimination #manners #segregation #society #insensitivity #AgeDiscrimination #elderly #poetry #erotica #pluralism #multiculturalism

Is this multiculturalism?
Is this respect for all?

Hatred exists across the world, beyond borders. Australia is not immune to it.

இதுதான் பன்முக கலாச்சாரமா?
இதுதான் அனைவருக்கும் மரியாதையா?

வெறுப்பு, வரையறைகளுக்கு அப்பாற்பட்டு, உலகம் முழுவதும் பரவி உள்ளது. ஆஸ்திரேலியா அதற்கு விதிவிலக்கல்ல.?

#australia #racism #hatred #firstnations #multiculturalism

A Minnesotan nurse saved my refugee family’s life. Four decades on, we watched the news together in horror

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/minnesotan-nurse-saved-refugee-family-australia

#AreYouOk #Minnesota #Nurses #Humanity
#multiculturalism #ICE #standingtogether
#refugees #refugeestories #solidarity