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.

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

[the_great_she_elephant]

https://www.qut.edu.au/about/oodgeroo

[moonflyte]

I wonder if anybody took into account how sick furious and distraught the students felt  being discrimated against like that. Then having to pay 5 thousand dollars blood money.

[moonflyte]

Omniscience, completely wrong word to use, makes no sense or context.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@djilukjilly wrote:

I wonder if anybody took into account how sick furious and distraught the students felt  being discrimated against like that. Then having to pay 5 thousand dollars blood money.

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I wonder if anyone took into account that they might have been doing it deliberately to make a point when they could jsut have esily been using computers in their own faculty lab,

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@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. 

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omniscience = all knowing. 

psychic = relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance.

How else could you possibly know that what you posted was a fact and not merely an opinion?

[Anonymous]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@djilukjilly wrote:

I wonder if anybody took into account how sick furious and distraught the students felt  being discrimated against like that. Then having to pay 5 thousand dollars blood money.

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I wonder if anyone took into account that they might have been doing it deliberately to make a point when they could jsut have esily been using computers in their own faculty lab,

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are you saying they knew they

would be discriminated against?

if so, good on them for exposing it.

AUSTRALIA’S Race Discrimination Commissioner has declined to weigh in on whether “racially segregated” university facilities are in breach of the Racial Discrimination Act.

“I won’t be commenting on this matter, which is now before the court, and none of [my comments relate] to the particulars of the case,” Dr Soutphommasane said.

The case stems from an incident in 2013, when three students attempted to use a computer lab at the Oodgeroo Unit. Ms Prior asked the students “whether they were indigenous”. She told them they were in “an indigenous space for Aborig­inal and Torres Strait students” and there were other places they could use computers, The Australian reported.

One of the students then complained on a university Facebook page, writing: “Just got kicked out of the unsigned indigenous computer room. QUT [is] stopping segregation with segregation.”

Another student wrote: “I wonder where the white supremacist computer lab is.”

The same student, in his affidavit in response to the lawsuit, wrote: “I detest any form of racial discrim­ination. As an Australian and a university student, I was appalled to learn that racial segregation was being practised on the campus of my university.

“Of course, I have no objection to people of the same ethnicity being provided with a place where they can meet and discuss issues of common concern.

“To my mind, however, it is a very different matter when education­al facilities, such as a computer lab provided by the university, are barred to all students except those of a particular race or ethnicity.”