How can anyone defend someone they know nothing about and they haven't even read nor absorbed all the details that have emerged in the media today?

 

The Govt needs to re look at the input this person has had into the English Curriculum also. It was only handed in recently so not too late to do so.

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@boris1gary wrote:

"a witch hunt"..what a laugh. No witch hunting going on but certainly a disgusting creature has been exposed - how anyone can defend this "person" is beyond me, even if there is a minority of people who might agree, most wouldn't admit it publicly. What he said about a women who had been a victim of serious sexual assault is shocking, who could agree with this kind of stuff in modern Australia? Hope he is sacked.

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I just read what he said about the woman. 

 

The recipients of this foul spew who apparently enjoyed it and did nothing should be named and shamed also.

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@lloydslights wrote:

But who went into the Professor's computer and then reported the contents to the New Matilda?  Surely not the University's computer administrator. 

 

DEB

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Why not? 

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

"a witch hunt"..what a laugh. No witch hunting going on but certainly a disgusting creature has been exposed - how anyone can defend this "person" is beyond me, even if there is a minority of people who might agree, most wouldn't admit it publicly. What he said about a women who had been a victim of serious sexual assault is shocking, who could agree with this kind of stuff in modern Australia? Hope he is sacked.

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I just read what he said about the woman. 

 

The recipients of this foul spew who apparently enjoyed it and did nothing should be named and shamed also.

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He is appalling.   It looks as if he spares no one from his tirades of hate.  He even heaps it on Abbott for spending time with aboriginal people, or something. I can't quite make out the problem with all the spitting about Adam Goodes and Kevin Rudd's siamese twin.

so the unAustralian was defending this disgusting creep on the weekend, why am I not surprised. I don't think there is any other option but that he be sacked. Nice company that pyne keeps.

 

https://newmatilda.com/2014/10/19/professor-barry-spurr-smoking-gun-institutional-racism

 

Professor Barry Spurr Is The Smoking Gun Of Institutional Racism

 

Why are some people so focused on how the emails got out and not the content? Is it because they can't bring themselves to defend what he wrote but feel the need to argue anyway?

Looks that way Lurker.

No evidence yet the emails were illegally accessed.

"While the University of Sydney has publicly condemned the emails, and suspended Professor Spurr, the Abbott government has yet to announce what it will do with the review, which Labor has labelled ‘tainted’ because of the revelations of Professor Spurr’s appalling racism."

From link in post above (boris)

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/bigoted-barry-spurr-christopher-pynes-...

 

Bigoted Barry Spurr: Christopher Pyne's racist reviewer

 

One of the Abbott Government’s handpicked curriculum reviewers has been shown to be a disgusting bigot, however proud member of the Kamilaroi people,Natalie Cromb, says the problem is much bigger than Barry Spurr.

 

 

Barry Spurr is a symptom of this nation’s problem; its disease; its virulent case of prejudice.

 

 

We have a culture among a large portion of the majority ‒ that is, white Australians ‒ that accept a certain level of prejudice.

 

 

This attitude is supported in everyday conversations where you may hear varying examples of the same recurring themes:

 

 

• I don’t have a problem with migrants, provided they come the right way…
• Aboriginal people need to get over the past and get on with things…..
• I don’t have a problem with racism, I just don’t like Muslims, that’s different….
• Don’t be so politically correct, it’s all in good fun [usually said after racist remark]…
• I’m not racism my [insert friend, colleague etc] is [insert race reference]…

 

At no point is racism or religious bigotry funny.

 

 

At no point is it “good fun”.

 

 

At no point is it acceptable to denigrate a group of people based on the views you hold — even if there are a group of equally herd-minded people ready to follow along with you on the path to intellectual nothingness.

 

New Maltida still state none of these emails were accessed illegally.