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YOU DON’T SPEAK FOR US: Indians students reject extreme leftist hijack attempt
Socialist Alternative violent rabble-rouser Paul Coats has embarrassed Indian students by intruding on their public demonstrations against violence held over the weekend. They decisively and patriotically rejected his demo take-over bid, as you can clearly see in this photograph by taking back the megaphone and giving it to one of the students so they could speak.
SPOILED BRAT OF MIDDLE-CLASS PRIVILEGE REJECTED
Coats – who is the son of Victorian Education Minister Bronwyn Pike – is the head of the Graduate Student Association at Melbourne Uni, where wealthy radicals like himself enjoy the benefits of the highest standard of education available.
The vast majority of Indian students do not enjoy such privilege, usually studying hard at much smaller and usually privately funded education institutions, working long hours in low-paid jobs with many hoping to build a new life in this country.
Coats attacks the whole process that brings them here by saying it is arranged by “racist governments” who exploit the students by allowing institutions to charge them fees. Of course, without fees, there’d be no courses and then no Indian students, which is perhaps the secret Socialist agenda he’d rather not talk about.
SOCIALISTS DON’T CARE ABOUT SAFETY FOR INDIAN STUDENTS
Despite Indian students being attacked at unstaffed train stations and other places where they ought to be able to walk in safety, the extreme leftist Coats naturally opposes more Police resources being deployed:
“I am opposed to calls for more police, as it appears that the police have been part of the problem… they blame Indian students for ‘making themselves targets’”
Little wonder that Indian students had heard more than enough of this, as pictured above, with dozens of them dragging away the megaphone Coats had snatched from them on the steps of Parliament House. They don’t need a paternalist leftist to claim their story as his photo op.
On one Indian forum, Coats’s role was being questioned by those suspicious with his close connections to power.
WE MUST LISTEN AND ACT
Export education is a vital part of Australia’s – Melbourne’s future – and the attacks on Indian students here is a dark stain on this country, regardless of whether the attacks are racially motivated or not.
The perception by some in Asia that Australia can be – at times – the old-style South Africa of the Pacific is a very damaging one.
We can be confident that the Victoria Police will hunt those involved in violent crimes down and bring them to justice. The damage the perpetrators have done to individuals is bad enough but they have also damaged our national reputation and one of this city’s most important areas of export opportunity. They will be found and they will be severely punished.
It’s a shame we can’t be as confident that the violent racist Paul Coats will be brought to justice for his crimes of violence and random words of hate.
NOTE: We do not wish to suggest that Minister Bronwyn Pike endorses the views or actions of her son. VEXNEWS understands the contrary to be true.
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Bronwyn Pike is a lovely lady. Pity her son is not.
when will this clown make a worth while contribution to society!
This would be almost comical if the protest wasn’t about such a serious issue.
total tool – lefties are hilarious
Bronwyn’s ALP branches appear to be the last bastion of the White Australia Policy, so maybe sonny-boy is doing his mother’s bidding?
There needs to be some honesty on this issue. There are lots of people from the sub-continent here at the moment and while its not comfortable for the bourgoise soy drinkers to admit there is a touch of racism toward them. Typically this discomfort comes from the extreme conotations associated with ‘racism’. There doesn’t need to a trains shunting people to death camps or half the population murdering the other half for there to be racism. Racism has a whole of lot other manifestations which while as final are very nasty and cause tension to mount.
Socialist Alternative types are absolute scum – they contribute nothing positive to their community at all. How they can justify subverting honest demonstrations by people peacefully expressing concerns is beyond rational explanation. Their behaviour is profoundly undemocratic which they are never honest enough to admit.
As for Coats – what would you expect from the product of the pluralist fascism. His mother was the moderator of the Uniting Church.The ultimate in self righteous feel-goodism the head of its community service organisation in Victoria recently gave up his title of Reverend opting instead for Mr. No doubt his Fitzroy cafe buddies told him Mr was more ‘relevant’ – to whom would not have been raised.
Time and time again people like Coats rise when the rest of society puts being ‘nice’ above principles.
Bronwyn Pike should sack Anthony Carbines who was also there.
How embarrassing for the revolutionary to storm the Bastille and mummy sitting behind the desk of power?
Oops.
The Indians must laugh at this country sometimes.
The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.
paul coats is pathetic – how long have you been a student radical for?
get a life dude
“Despite Indian students being attacked at unstaffed train stations and other places where they ought to be able to walk in safety”
Whilst in theory I agree that Indian students, as well as anyone else for that matter, should be able to walk anywhere they want at any hour without fear of harm, in practice this matter is not so easy.
If I were to say to my father that (as a white Australian woman) I caught a train home at night, hopped off at an unmanned station in a disreputable suburb and I had been attacked by someone of another race; even if racial slurs were made his first comment would be, “You stupid girl, why on earth would you put yourself in that position?” if not a “you deserve everything you got and be lucky they didn’t do worse”.
Everyone SHOULD have a right to go anywhere or do anything without fear of violence, however, human society seems to hold a strong belief that victims somehow “deserve” what happened to them, and use this as an excuse for how something so unthinkable could happen without reason e.g. the Caste system in India, the concepts of poetic justice or Karma, or even the U.S. evangelist who said that Haitians had made a pact with the devil and therefore deserved the earthquake. All these examples show victims being blamed for bad things happening to them so that anyone who didn’t suffer the same fate can feel a little safer knowing that “as long as I don’t do x, y, or z that they did I’ll be safe”.
I know it’s not good, and it’s definitely not right, but it happens to Australians as well as Indians, therefore this in itself is not a matter of racism, rather more a discrimination against victims.
I do believe, however, that ANY violence, racially motivated or otherwise is completely unacceptable and that increased police presence Australia-wide would do wonders for the safety of Australia’s Indian community as well as that of everyone else who lives here.
pAUL cOATS is a friend of gAUTAM fISA and vASIN aGENTASIN..
wow….
You all really have no clue. Whoever reads and believes this article is extremely ignorant…
This almost reads like a Fox news story.