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Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

icyfroth — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:02:34 GMT

A university worker who allegedly told three white students to leave an Indigenous computer lab has launched a $250,000 legal action claiming racial discrimination.

Cindy Prior, a former employee of the Queensland University of Technology’s Indigenous office, has launched the action against five students and three staff members.

When the three male students were attempting to access computers in the Oodgeroo Unit at the university’s Brisbane campus in May 2013, Ms Prior asked them ‘whether they were Indigneous’, according to court documents seen by the Daily Mail.

She allegedly told the men they were in ‘an Indigenous space for Aboriginal Torres Strait students’ and asked them to leave.

A short while later one of the students logged on to the QUT Stalker Space Facebook page to vent about the experience.

“I wonder where the white supremacist computer lab is,” Jackson Powell wrote according to court documents.

Another student Calum Thwaites allegedly said: “ITT n*****s”, however he strongly denies writing the slur.

Kyran Findlater, the third student involved, also posted comments online according to the Federal Circuit Court documents.

“My Student and Amenity fees are going to furbish rooms in the university where inequality reigns supreme?” he is reported to have written.

“I believe if we have to pay to support these sorts of places, there should at least be more created for general purpose use, but again, how do these sorts of facilities support interaction and community within QUT? All this does is encourage separation and inequality".

When equity director Mary Kelly reviewed the Facebook comments, she allegedly told Ms Prior it was just ‘students being nasty'.

“With the small amount of contact I’ve had with the students, it is clear that these students aren’t racist.

“There is no white supremacy group at QUT. Check out what racial vilification is before you jump in.

“They’re not going to come into your office with a baseball bat,” the documents quoted Ms Kelly as saying.

Entire Article Here

Why were all the equality and equity laws passed when all they do is create inequality?

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

creative*crisis — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:14:07 GMT

As a matter of curiosity is there a computer lab exclusively for european students?

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

village_person — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 01:35:14 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:

When the three male students were attempting to access computers in the Oodgeroo Unit at the university’s Brisbane campus in May 2013, Ms Prior asked them ‘whether they were Indigneous’, according to court documents seen by the Daily Mail.

Entire Article Here

Why were all the equality and equity laws passed when all they do is create inequality?

That challenge smacks of racism.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

moonflyte — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:31:20 GMT

She took 5 thousand dollars each from 2 students because they couldn’t afford the court case.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

creative*crisis — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 02:37:01 GMT

A purely money making exercise imo.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:22:02 GMT

A deliberate s**tstirring exercise by the students involved IMHO. Do they also demand equal access to dsabled parking bays I wonder?

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:48:58 GMT

There were no signs warning visitors that the Oodgeroo Unit at QUT was off-limits to non-indigenous students. It is understood that the university has expressly rejected the suggestion it condones racial segregation.

But Dr Hayes, a QUT lecturer, is accused in the legal action of having stated at the time that “it seems a bit silly” to kick someone out of an indigenous computer lab for not being indigenous when there are computers not being used. She had suggested that Ms Prior may have been in breach of QUT policy by asking students who visited the Oodgeroo Unit whether they were indigenous. Ms Prior said she felt “sick, furious and distraught” after the comments of Dr Hayes.

really? wow.....

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

creative*crisis — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:55:23 GMT

It's apparently contrived cases such as this appears to be, that do great harm to the genuine cases of discrimination.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:57:21 GMT

Do they also demand equal access to dsabled parking bays I wonder?

why would they?

they should have been allowed to

use the computers without being

questioned about their heritage.

(racial segregation is against the

uni's policy)

completely different to using disabled

parking bays without a permit.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 04:33:44 GMT

So what you are saying is it's OK to make special rules to assist the physically disadvantaged, but not to assist the socially disadvantaged.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

icyfroth — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 04:50:14 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
So what you are saying is it's OK to make special rules to assist the physically disadvantaged, but not to assist the socially disadvantaged.

where are the socially disadvantaged in this case?

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 04:58:02 GMT

no. that is not what i am saying at all.

i am saying the students who

wanted to use the computers which

were not in use, should not have been

questioned about their ethnicity.

to me, it would be similar to providing

prayer rooms. while they are not in

use for the designated religious groups,

anyone is able to access them

for their personal (spiritual??) needs.

i don't think a university would make

a rule of exclusion based on race,

religion or sexual orientation.

that would be discrimination.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

moonflyte — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 05:45:07 GMT

It was straight out bigotry and discriminatiion and when she got called out for it she filed suit to take the heat off her.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

esayaf — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:05:07 GMT

Everyone on the planet should be given a firearm and after a week they'd only be smart nice people left. Or no one at all. Either way it's a win win for the planet

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:40:28 GMT

@djilukjilly wrote:
It was straight out bigotry and discriminatiion and when she got called out for it she filed suit to take the heat off her.

I stand in awe of your psychic omniscience.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

bright.ton42 — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 07:58:14 GMT

@*julia*2010 wrote:. Ms Prior said she felt “sick, furious and distraught” after the comments of Dr Hayes.

really? wow.....

I'll echo that. Really? Wow ........

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

icyfroth — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 08:09:29 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@djilukjilly wrote:
It was straight out bigotry and discriminatiion and when she got called out for it she filed suit to take the heat off her.
I stand in awe of your psychic omniscience.

lol... if you can't baffle 'em with bullspit, try dazzling 'em with brilliance

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

village_person — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 08:14:32 GMT

I wonder if Cindy Prior would be aghast to learn that the computers and operating systems may have been invented by a non-indigenous person.

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

the_great_she_elephant — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 08:35:35 GMT

@village_person wrote:
I wonder if Cindy Prior would be aghast to learn that the computers and operating systems may have been invented by a non-indigenous person.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say that possibility is probably a minus 5

Re: Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

icyfroth — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 08:38:10 GMT

does it matter, if there's guilt money to be extracted?