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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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[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 14 points 5 months ago

You don't fucking know shit about it

Nor do you.

Its a largely uninvestigated report at the moment. Maybe people who believe her will turn out to have misplaced their trust, maybe theres a more compliacted series of events, maybe she is lying.

Point is none of us know more than whats been said so far; theres no reason to outright disbelieve someone when they make a serious complaint about discrimination. Otherwise, if we do, we've learned nothing from historic discriminatory abuses in all manner of circumstances.