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17 February 2010
The grim reality of India's attitude to Australia and Australians
A week or two ago the media reported that the Indian High Commissioner to Australia was being recalled urgently by her Government for discussions about violence against Indian students in Australia. The clear message from the Indian High Commission in Canberra was that the violence (allegedly) motivated by racism against Indian students had become extremely serious. That was followed by High Commissioner Mrs Sujatha Singh lecturing Quentin Bryce, the Governor-General, about the Victorian Government's state of denial over the racism in the attacks on Indian students.
I have no doubts that many Australians would have reacted to Mrs Singh's media performances and the anti-Australian hysteria in the Indian media, government and political circles as I did. If this is the way she thought and felt about Australia and Australians, she should stay in India. There is at present no common ground for discussions between Australia and the India government. And the Indian government should not send a replacement until they get over their own deep prejudices and are prepared to look sensibly at the problem.
Gautam Gupta, spokesman for the Federation of Indian students should follow her. He should stay there, too. Gupta is a mischievous and self-promoting individual in the leftist mould playing the self-appointed role of folk hero to a prejudiced antagonistic audience in India. He is no friend of Australia.
No doubt Australia's small but powerful band of professional multiculturalists, ever monitoring society for deviations from the prescribed dogma, would dismiss this sort of response as the usual redneck reaction of a section of the Australian population that regrettably cannot think for itself. They should know that their constant slandering of Australia and its history to overseas audiences would not for one moment appease the Indian government and media. The Indians would insist upon the full KKK portrait of Australia that they are peddling to a susceptible population. But let's look at what is actually happening rather than be driven by the class fantasies in Australia and the obvious anti-white/European prejudice in India.
Few would deny that Indian students have been attacked. The overwhelming majority of Australians deplore these attacks and want the culprits caught and dealt with severely. No argument here. But it is not only attacks on Indian students that Australians want investigated and the culprits punished. It is not just Indians.
For some years now there has been a growing incidence of young male violence across Australian society, the worst of it in Victoria. I have been writing about it for more than four years. The violence in some cases has been of a nature and brutality that is hard to fathom. This week Australia has been rocked by the stabbing death of a twelve-year-old boy by a thirteen-year-old classmate. Last week it was the bullying of a group of cowardly young men who drove a fellow worker to her death. Australians are screaming out for something to be done about the violent young men who only pick on the vulnerable and defenceless. It is not just about the small percentage of Indian students who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, mostly through coincidence or naivety.
Labor Governments who have held power in the states for most of the last ten years cannot deal it with because they do not have the (masculine) guts to deal with it, and the straitjacket of feminist ideology will not allow them to contemplate proper punitive measures or to implement the sort of the education boys and young men require. Getting Labor governments to respond effectively to the problem of male violence is like bidding the arsonist with his can of petrol to go put out the fire.
It has been only recently, hardly six months ago, that the attacks on Indian students began to get media attention while young Indians have been studying in Australia for many years - and applying to live here. Indeed, migration from India to Australia has rocketed in the last decade. I suggest those migrants did not choose to come to Australia because we were a racist country. And Indian students are not applying for permanent residence while Australians are roaming the streets in their white gowns and hoods looking for Indians to lynch. Last October ABC News reported a survey on students views about safety in Australia. It opened with:
Foreign students have rated Australia as the safest place in the world to study, despite recent international media coverage of attacks on Indian students in Australia.
The survey included 6,000 students from eight countries...
The chief executive of IDP Education, Tony Pollock, says the company's poll surveyed students from all over the world, including 1,100 students from India.
A survey reported on TV news bulletins said this week that seventy percent of Indian students thought Australia was safe. Another survey in The Herald-Sun revealed most students thought that Melbourne was a safe place to live, but those who experienced a threat thought there was a racial, religious or cultural dimension to it. I more than willing to accept this last. I have acknowledged in past comments that racial abuse can be - but not always is - a part of the violence. The critical factor is that racism is a secondary element in the attacks. It is not the primary cause. That is where the evidence points.
In the same survey reported in The Australian some students said the perpetrators of violence were 'groups of alienated young men'. Precisely. That is the point I have been making all along. The primary cause of the violence is the alienated state of the many young men made outcast by Australia's feminised political processes. Alienation is an outcome of an educative process that denigrates and sidelines the masculine. There is no need for me to go over the arguments and evidence I have put forward in past comments.
The authors of the survey ('researchers from Victoria University') have emphasised, as expected, the racial aspect of the students' comments. This is typical of our universities. There would be no hope of anyone getting into such research unl ess one towed the ideological line. But here it is not just a question of ideological differences. As I have pointed out a number of times, failure to diagnose the problems accurately - one of alienation born of failed political processes - guarantees more violence. Australians have to understand what the fundamental causes of male violence are and take action in the polling booth. More of the same ideology, more of the same social decay.
Did any of the factors discussed above make any difference to the response of the Indian government and media? We know they did not. Rather than acting in good faith and according to the standards and goodwill expected between nations that we all thought enjoyed friendly relations, the Indian government and media shot into a hysterical trajectory of slander, abuse, and racial aggression. Any effort to get at the origin of the problem in a sober-minded way was drowned in the hysteria. Take a close look at this image - and read the copy.
Here we have a cluster of the foulest lies that can only be the expression of racist attitudes. It is clear that the Indian government and the Indian media want to believe the lies they are peddling. And peddling they are doing at a great rate, relentlessly right across India. As I said in a previous comment, it speaks volumes that they are invoking the support of a fanatical Marxist-Leninist whose eyes are spinning with pathological hatred for the country of his birth.
If all Australians hated Indians there would have been constant expression of it long before the attacks on Indians students. There has not been. There are many businesses run by Indian migrants who trade without harassment from the general public. And will continue to do so.
There would be little migration from India if all Australians hated Indians. In Australia it would be stopped or at least drastically curtailed in the ballot box. In India the government would not allow it. Neither happens. Indian migration to Australia in the last decade has grown significantly.
The claim that Australians hate Indians is so obviously wrong on the evidence that it is laughable to have to demonstrate the monstrous lie that it is. Indeed, it is the type of lie that governments fabricate for aggressive purposes. Even after the present hysteria has passed, most Australians would not be bothered to hate Indians. Unfortunately, what will happen is that many people who once thought well of India and Indian people will no longer do so. Vilification does this. But the expression of that change of mind will be no more than in the choice of going to the other coffee shop for their espresso or cappuccino.
Australia has the reputation for being a friendly tolerant country for good reasons. An ABC News report said that Melbourne 'third most' livable city.
Australian cities hold three of the top 10 spots in the Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability poll, which ranks cities on five factors: health-care, stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Melbourne ranked the highest of any Australian city, coming third in the poll recognising 140 cities.
Where do Indian cities come on that list?
What about Indian society? How safe and egalitarian is Indian society? In a previous comment I provided a link to a catalogue of shocking social problems in India, problems that never appeared in Australia or would have been resolved shortly after the convict era. I will leave the reader to contemplate those problems. Let me bring the reader's attention merely to one aspect of Indian society: the political extremism.
Australia does not have extremist political parties who threaten violence to visitors to Australia because we are not happy with what their government and people are perceived to be doing to Australians. Not so in India. The threats by extremist groups in India to Australian sportspeople who will visit shortly are taken so seriously that the tightest security has been deemed necessary to protect them.
But all this (the social violence, the class discrimination, the ethnic violence) appears to be of no account for Indian politicians and the Indian media - nor the obvious hypocrisy. It seems enough that Australia is perceived to be guilty of transgressions against India and Indians. Whatever happens in India, whatever Indians do there or abroad, whatever explanations are offered, whatever the empirical evidence, it matters not a jot if Australians are perceived to have harmed Indians. Why? Face it people. It comes down to anti-white/European racism.
Australians don't have to take this. We don't have to bow and scrape and send delegation after delegation to apologise endlessly for a pathetic perverse misconstruing of a social problem or for a simmering prejudice against us. We do not have to beat our breasts and sprinkle ash over our heads in a public mea culpa session that does nothing but highlight the few racists and racist acts in Australia so that the impression is spread around the region that the whole lot of us are a bunch of unreformable white racists. We do not have to do what no other country in the region would contemplate, some of whom have an appalling record. Nor do other European countries, particularly those to which peoples from fractured countries in the region are rushing by whatever means possible.
The Indian hysteria really challenges the possibility of multiculturalism, as it is understood by the dominant political class. If relations between Australia and India - two countries that seemed on the surface compatible - are so fragile that the first trial sends one of them into a frenzy of antagonism, then questions must be asked. Is multiculturalism possible? Will the forced policies of shipping great chunks of foreign countries unchanged to Australia remain unquestioned whatever the problems and whatever the threat to social cohesion?
A selection of newspaper reports:
Indian journal focuses on hate
Brumby slams Indian government and media
The Indian High Commissioner lectures the Governor-General
Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com
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