{"id":55433,"date":"2014-06-02T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55433"},"modified":"2014-06-02T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:35:10","slug":"racism-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55433","title":{"rendered":"Racism Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t heard any Australian say anything racist in my week here. What happened to the country I knew and love? People are much more circumspect in their speech today than when I was growing up here.<\/p>\n

Everyone I meet says racism is bad and that the White Australia policy was shameful but when I point out that everybody prefers those who are genetically similar to them, I get wide agreement. Australians have been cowed into abiding by the West’s new norms on race even though life as they experience it tells them there are significant differences between the white, black and Asian races and it is much more natural to trust your own kind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t heard any Australian say anything racist in my week here. What happened to the country I knew and love? People are much more circumspect in their speech today than when I was growing up here. Everyone I meet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t