Where's The White Supremacist Lab?

[icyfroth]

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?

[creative*crisis]

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

[village_person]

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@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?

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That challenge smacks of racism. 

[moonflyte]

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

[creative*crisis]

A purely money making exercise imo.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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

[Anonymous]

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.....

[creative*crisis]

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

[Anonymous]

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. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

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.