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Indigenous singer Emma Donovan alleges entire taxi rank refused to serve her at Perth airport (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What's racial diversity got to do with it? Plenty of non-white people are racist against Indigenous Australians.

But yeah it's possible that there is more context, and I could see it being a racism + erratic behaviour combination (that may have been ignored if she was white).

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The racial diversity is very valid and important.

If a driver isn't white, which is a high chance, then it's very likely the driver is from Bangladesh through to the Middle-East and all the way down into Africa, that we know cop racism from passengers plenty. I struggle to see how they'd quickly form a position of racism themselves, even actually caring enough about indigenous Australians to do so.

It'd be like me moving to Finland and forming a position of racism toward the Sami before I had even learned Finnish fluently, all the while I'm copping racism myself at least once a day from non-Sami people.

I could really only see this happen if the cab company has a wildly effective anti-Sami program, which I wouldn't understand, but just stuck to for my job.

But now you see the level of wild scenarios and assumptions needed to try validate some truth to the customer's allegation. It's not impossible, but it seems highly improbable. Or everyone in Perth really fucking hates Aboriginal Australians.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

If you think people can only become racist after moving to a majority white nation then boy do I have news for you.

Many of them are racist before they immigrate.