Boat-People.org
Title
We are all Boat People
Description
The 'We are all Boat People' campaign is concerned in the broadest sense with the mental health of Australia. In our analysis, what we are facing is not so much a refugee problem as a crisis of xenophobia, a terrible and contagious national sickness. The border panic policies of our government are clearly designed to spread fear and hatred, disseminated through brilliant manipulation of the unspeakable psychoses of an occupying nation secretly uncertain of its own legitimacy.
As anthropologist Ghassan Hage suggests, we are willing to fear the threat of strangers because we know this land has ALREADY been stolen."This", he says, " is the sensitivity of thieves".
The Government, ably assisted by talkback radio hosts, has worked to incite irrational hatred of 'boat people' and 'queue jumpers'. The terms are rhetorical flourishes some rabid genius speechwriter devised to simultaneously obviate the urgency of refugees' need to flee, and to conjure an orderly process (a polite line of people waiting at an Australian consulate somewhere) out of thin air.
Contact
- Digital Eskimo
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- Surry Hills NSW
- Australia 2010
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- +6.1292123366
