Archive for 'Powerlessness'
Powerful child abusers are a protected species
Posted by John, May 28th, 2015 - under Power, Powerlessness.
Tags: Catholic church, Child abuse
Comments: none
Louise O’Shea in Red Flag writes that the powerful are protected no matter what they do. Child abuse, whether it be in religious institutions, orphanages, through forced poverty or in immigration detention centres, is acceptable so long as it is carried out by the powerful. Seen in this context, moral panics about protecting children have nothing to do with concern for children. They are rather a cynical pretext for attacks on people’s rights and the demonising of minorities.
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Hey hey it’s yesterday: Australian capitalism and racism
Posted by John, October 11th, 2009 - under Muslims, Powerlessness, Racism.
Tags: Aborigines, Alienation, Australian politics, Capitalism
Comments: 7
A combative working class can move Australia from the racist backwater Australian capitalism has made it to one where relations between people are on a more equal footing.
The Chaser’s war on the powerless
Posted by Leonie, June 6th, 2009 - under Imperialism, Indian students, Muslims, Power, Powerlessness, Racism, Refugees, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor.
Tags: Aborigines, Afghanistan, ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Classes
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The Chaser team should do a skit on those kids Rudd’s troops have killed or whose deaths Rudd ignores as imperialism around the world (of which Australia is an integral part) destroys their lives.
Priests, the abuse of kids and state intervention
Posted by Leonie, May 21st, 2009 - under Northern Territory Intervention, Power, Powerlessness, Sexual abuse, The Catholic Church, Wage slavery.
Tags: Aborigines, Abuse, Bikies, Child abuse
Comments: 7
We invade the Northern Territory to ‘protect’ children. We outlaw bikie gangs for alleged crimes. Why not the same for the Catholic Church?