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on 05-02-2016 08:02 PM
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on 05-02-2016 08:46 PM
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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on 05-02-2016 08:51 PM
Omniscience, completely wrong word to use, makes no sense or context.
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on 05-02-2016 09:22 PM
@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.
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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on 05-02-2016 09:27 PM
@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.
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?
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on 05-02-2016 10:22 PM
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
@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.
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,
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.”
