Just a small sample of the casual #racism I sometimes cop as an Arab Australian journalist 🤌🏽
Notice how polite I was to him before he declared immigrants are the root of all problems.
I was covering a hit and run by the way…but I guess the culprit is always “immigrants”.
A rousing moment: Marcia Langton, noble & holding back tears at National Press Club, urges the media to "lift their game" on abuse published daily toward Indigenous Australians by the Voice No vote, led by Dutton. They are "good & decent people," she pleads. #NPC#auspol#VoteYes
So some have suggested i do a song about the #RobodebtRC well here it is. Apologies to the great Bob Dylan who wrote the best injustice song ever...."Hurricane" i felt this was the best tune for these lyrics and this story. I can rely on yas to retweet the hell out of it yeah? 🙏
Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?
That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.
And once you start to look, they're everywhere...