Talk about a soft touch
August 22, 2008So let me get this straight - four young men with probably way too much time on their hands and way too much testosterone, beat another young man senseless…and get off without jail time. Alright, so the newspaper states it was a race-based incident, but a violent assault is still an assault, regardless of the reasons stated.
But he also noted that the prosecution had not called for immediate prison terms and that each man was young and immature with drug or alcohol histories and disruptive childhoods and education.
Read a typical Aussie Current Affairs forum, and you can easily see the undercurrent of hostility and outright hatred for non-white migrants amongst Generation X and Y. So the actions of these young men comes as no surprise to me. To be honest, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
What’s dissapointing is that over the past 10 years, society has devolved to the point where these actions are seen as normal…even encouraged…amongst the younger generation that is coming through the current educational system. This kind of racist and hostile attitude on both sides of the race divide in this country does not bode well for the future. I genuinely fear for the future of this country, when I realise to my horror that the future lies in the hands of thugs such as these.
