Dorinda Cox accuses Greens of racism in scathing resignation letter

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• maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  focus on getting tangible outcomes

  I only just realised how meaningless this phrase is. And I’m pretty sure it’s used a lot. I feel like this kind of language is deliberately crafted to scramble our brains.

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• Ilandar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It doesn’t sound like there’s a lot of weight behind those claims, but I’m sure Labor and the right wing media will have a field day with it nonetheless. Kinda funny how quickly hopes of a closer Labor/Greens relationship in this term have been derailed. Albanese really seems to hate The Greens and when he’s not punching down himself he seems to be encouraging others to do it on his behalf. No doubt he has been egging Cox on behind the scenes.

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• Tau@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you start believing that racism is the cause of all your woes you’ll see it everywhere, particularly if - for example - you’re still salty about losing a vote to be deputy leader.

  It is amusingly ironic though because the Greens both appear the least likely party to actually be racist and the most likely party to enable such a mindset during her time with them.

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  • Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d say the Greens are the most likely to be racist. They’re the kinds of people who could never even conceive of the possibility that they are not completely virtuous ("they’ as in themselves, not POC. I’m not claiming some reverse racism BS).

    I cannot imagine them being called racist and not feeling angry at the accusation. I cannot imagine them admitting to fault. And I cannot imagine them growing as a result.

    It took a while, but the trigger for me switching my vote from the Greens to Labor was when Bandt asked Albanese something in question time and was absolutely seething in anger when the (Labor) speaker said his question was agains the rules. The Greens (or at least Bandt) are people who consider anything that makes them uncomfortable to be absolute evil.

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    • spiffmeister@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As a previous Greens’ member (I live overseas now) I can say that my experience is that Greens’ members are generally pretty sensitive to causing offence and are more than willing to apologise if they are told they’re causing it, at least by other members. This is of course anecdotal though.

      Also maybe changing your vote because you thought an individual action by someone was stupid is a childish way of thinking about politics?

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    • Ilandar@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re the kinds of people who could never even conceive of the possibility that they are not completely virtuous ("they’ as in themselves, not POC. I’m not claiming some reverse racism BS).

      I cannot imagine them being called racist and them not feeling angry at the accusation. I cannot imagine them admitting to fault.

      You could say the exact same for the major parties, or any group of people beyond loud and proud racists like neo-Nazis and white supremacists. This is literally how everyone thinks. Even Pauline Hanson - arguably the most racist politician in modern Australian politics - gets extremely offended when people use that word to describe her. You seem to hold the mistaken belief that people closer to the political centre are somehow less virtuous or less concerned with being “good” people, but that’s an assessment of society that is just fundamentally wrong. They don’t look at The Greens or anyone else further to the left and think “we don’t try to be as perfect as those guys, we accept our moral flaws” - they think their position of relative pragmatism and compromise IS the morally superior position.

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