experience talking to an old ocker guy at Footscray station this week
just waiting for the train , sitting on a bench, seat next to me was a really old guy
he starts talking about how the trains are bad and how Tokyo has the same population and they have trains run every 3 minutes. ( veiled criticism and blame on labour government )
I try to explain that we are big country and it takes much more investment and work to provide and run infrastructure here
then he talks about how the country has changed. ( I have now learnt that this is code used by racists when they see immigrants who look different. )
he said there shouldn’t be all these people coming when we don’t have the housing. Australia should be investing in housing. ( this sounded to me like a tv talking point )
I said maybe we should be investing in industry, in factories, to make the country well off again and give people good jobs.
He just kept on repeating the same statement about housing. Making a veiled racist statement. Blaming immigrants for a manufactured problem.
I kept on saying we need industry and factories.
after 4 rounds he slowly said, yeah, they closed Holden down. You could hear the rusty cogs turning.
It takes patience and repetition but it’s possible to challenge how people think.
Why should I care or make the effort.
I want a country where people don’t parrot racist shit they hear on the telly
experience talking to an old ocker guy at Footscray station this week
just waiting for the train , sitting on a bench, seat next to me was a really old guy
he starts talking about how the trains are bad and how Tokyo has the same population and they have trains run every 3 minutes. ( veiled criticism and blame on labour government )
I try to explain that we are big country and it takes much more investment and work to provide and run infrastructure here
then he talks about how the country has changed. ( I have now learnt that this is code used by racists when they see immigrants who look different. )
he said there shouldn’t be all these people coming when we don’t have the housing. Australia should be investing in housing. ( this sounded to me like a tv talking point )
I said maybe we should be investing in industry, in factories, to make the country well off again and give people good jobs.
He just kept on repeating the same statement about housing. Making a veiled racist statement. Blaming immigrants for a manufactured problem.
I kept on saying we need industry and factories.
after 4 rounds he slowly said, yeah, they closed Holden down. You could hear the rusty cogs turning.
It takes patience and repetition but it’s possible to challenge how people think.
Why should I care or make the effort.
I want a country where people don’t parrot racist shit they hear on the telly
and everyone gets a vote and each vote has value