Reply #30: you said what I have been thinking for a long time

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as former Australian PM Paul Keating said.."scratch an Australian and you find a racist underneath"..how is it that one human life is valued much more that another? why have the people of Afghanistan..Iraq ..Palestine become "unpeople"..deaths of thousands and thousands of these people do not even raise an eyebrow in the west (apart from forums such as this)..yet i can watch the "news" and a fucking dog trapped in a pipe receives more sympathy..there can only be one answer.."skin colour" and cultural intolerance..I am afraid our children will reap the rewards of this ignorance unless we change very quickly..