A serve of Dame Slap in the late arvo quarantine section ...

 

The pond thought long and hard as to whether to give Dame Slap a guernsey, jersey if you will, this day. 

She's clearly a bigot, and the only question is whether her bigotry takes the form of white supremacism, white nationalism or old-fashioned racism.

The pond decided the best approach was to quarantine her to a late arvo slot where only the most dedicated and professional herpetology students would notice her.

Besides, by then everybody would have had a chance to have read Marina Hyde deliver her latest Hydeing ...Listen up! It’s Liz Truss and the PopCons, the Tory tribute act sounding a death knell for irony.

“Please join our organisation, get involved – this is just the beginning,” was her clarion call today. “People don’t want to be unpopular,” ran another gambit. “But the irony is, these policies are popular.” And yet, is that the irony? I can’t help feeling that other ironies are very much available – and that only at this particular auto-satirical stage of public life could someone outlasted by a lettuce be casting the shortest prime ministership ever as her salad days.

And anyone wanting more of the lettuce woman could read the cracking Crace's Bring out the PopCons, Liz Truss is the entertainment that keeps on giving.

The former Institute of Economic Affairs boss and director of the PopCons, Mark Littlewood, kicked things off. “We are Popular Conservatavism,” he said. He repeated it, in case people hadn’t been paying attention. “We are Popular Conservatavism.” You can’t buy that comic timing. Pure slapstick. The man who doesn’t even know what his own organisation is called.
Then we were into the world of a Dan Brown thriller. The country had been taken over by a shadowy group of Commie Illuminati. Literally. Every part of life, from the government, the markets to the judiciary had been seized by leftwing extremists. Like the head of the IMF.
He couldn’t explain how it was that a Tory government had spent 14 years watching all this take place with no one noticing. Nor could he say how it was that many of those Tory MPs in this very room had trousered £85k in payouts from the shadowy elite. Perhaps they were all duped. Still he said he was in favour of free speech, so he will love this.
Next up was Jacob Rees-Mogg. Now just reduced to a tired end of the pier show. He has become the bore’s bore. A third-rate pastiche of himself. Nothing he has ever predicted has come true. So he moaned about the judges and the EU. Hopefully Nanny will one day tell him to take responsibility for the mess he has created.

And so on, and so everybody should be relaxed, entertained, amused and able to cope with Dame Slap's bigotry ...

The snap the start served as the warning sign that the fish and chups folk across the dutch were in for a fierce pounding ...

Dame Slap would soon enough move away from the Kiwis - look how angry they are, truly terrifying to the aged lizard Oz all white readership - to a general rant about race as a way to establish her white nationalist credentials, but it was the Kiwis who had to cop the first volley ...

As usual the reptiles ran with a whole bunch of distracting snaps and as usual the pond decided to get them out of the way quickly ...

The pond has never understood the reptile fixation on NZ. Is it because they have a media outlet trading as "Stuff", when really the all the reptiles do is deliver stuff.

The pond has never bought the reptile image of NZ as a land of chaos and unhappiness ...

If you want a comparison, just look at what's going down elsewhere if you want to see naked racism and bigotry in action ...

The circumstances are always being investigated, long after the damage has been done, and likely the punishment a warm lettuce leaf slapping from a Liz lettuce ...

Meanwhile, it's very hard not to keep an element of blonde-ness out of Dame Slap's approach to the world ...

There's so much conflation and deliberate confusion in all that malarkey that the pond almost felt like it was back in Mabo days ...

The more interesting question is what drives this particular form of blonde-ness, and here there are clues scattered through the piece ...

That notion of "equality under the law", which turns up several times is a clue to the pandering and the naked lying.

There's never been any equality, and there have been any number of observations of this truth ...

The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) condemns the systemic discrimination that permeates the Australian legal system with respect to First Nations peoples. Structural, unconscious or explicit bias manifests itself in the on-going deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and is directly attributable to the criminal justice system’s pervasive police brutality, persistent want of care, and repeated failures to follow process or, even, the dictates of common humanity.

Without limiting the possibility of other actions and as a first response, CALD calls upon all Australian governments – both state and federal – to implement all of the 339 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, as well as the recommendations of other relevant reports.  Further, CALD urges all Australian law schools to work in partnership with First Nations peoples to give priority to the creation of culturally competent and culturally safe courses and programs.  In so doing, CALD acknowledges the part that Australian legal education has played in supporting, either tacitly or openly, the law’s systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples.  At the same time, CALD affirms the positive contribution Australian law schools can, should and will make, in full partnership with First Nations peoples, in exposing, critiquing and remedying all forms of institutionalised injustice. (here)

And so on ...

Still on about the Voice, and Clarence and SCOTUS served up as an example of how to do legal business...

But to be fair, Dame Slap knows how to work the bigoted, biased side of the street ...

Seventy-five per cent of Australians hold an implicit bias against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, a study has found. 

The study, published in the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues, is based on more than 11,000 unique responses to an implicit association test over 10 years. 

According to Australian National University researcher Siddharth Shirodkar, the results show that “most Australian participants on average – regardless of background – hold an implicit bias against Indigenous Australians”. 

A third of respondents showed a strong implicit bias against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The most neutral group were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples themselves, who showed such a slight bias toward Indigenous people that “statistically speaking they are unbiased”, Shirodkar said.

“Your internal implicit bias, that’s what’s inside,” he said. “You may or may not act on that.”

Shirodkar said implicit bias was not in itself a measure of racism, but could potentially be the cause of racism or discriminatory actions. He said it showed the discrimination experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was not imaginary, and had a foundation in the perceptions of non-Indigenous Australians. 

“It’s the conscious part, that’s what can cause the discriminatory actions,” he said. “But the reality is if your unconscious bias remains unconscious and unchallenged and you don’t identify it, if you are not even aware of it, then it is potentially weighing on all of your decisions and how you behave.” (Graudian)

Luckily you don't have to ferret out implicit bias with Dame Slap. The bigotry is explicit:

And there's that blather about equality under the law again.

In 2016 in the Graudian: Indigenous Australians unfairly jailed due to racism in legal system – research

Indigenous Australians are being unfairly sentenced for their crimes because of the racist and prejudicial views held by some members of the judicial system, research led by the University of Technology in Sydney has found.

The research was based on formal interviews with 18 judicial officers and lawyers in New South Wales and Victoria as well as informal interviews with judicial staff that took place in 2015 and 2016. One former judge told the researchers that “magistrates, especially in country towns, can hold beliefs that Aboriginal people are hopeless”.

“This stems from witnessing recidivism among some Aboriginal people and leads to unfair sentencing outcomes for Aboriginal people,” the report found.

“Another judge commented that magistrates in remote communities relied on stereotypes about Aboriginal people as intoxicated because magistrates ‘flew-in, flew-out’ of country towns and could not comprehend the issues in the community.

“These views were reinforced by prosecutors.”

Leader of the research and Indigenous legal expert, Associate Professor Thalia Anthony said: “Prison is very criminogenic, and leads to people being more likely to be locked up again.

“They come out traumatised by the process and and without access to support services, and this makes them more alienated.”

Anthony’s research found that the background of Indigenous people facing sentencing was often not communicated to court staff in presentence reports, even though details of their history may lead to a lighter sentence.

In 2020 in the SMH: Criminal justice system 'inherently racist' towards Aboriginal people

Aboriginal elder Phillip Naden was just 28 when he first donned the blue shirt.

It was 1995 and the young Wiradjuri man from Dubbo had answered a call-out for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to enter the Queensland police force.

He joined to create change as an Aboriginal person. Instead he found a policing culture that he saw unfairly targeting Aboriginal communities.

“I was asking, why are we patrolling these areas more for minor offences? Not once would you go into an area that was affluent and lock up five or six people for driving an unregistered vehicle,'' he says. ''There was a different approach for non-Aboriginal communities.”

It would be the reason he left the force after five years.

“That wasn’t the role I wanted to play. There should be no difference in how you approach a situation on the basis of a person's race.” he says.

Twenty-five years on he says the policing culture has come a long way. But this week he found himself asking how far it still had to go.

On Monday video emerged of the violent arrest of a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy, being kicked to the ground by a NSW Police officer. The incident is under an internal investigation and there have been calls for the officer to be charged.

"I truly hope this is a turning point within our community and [for] the police,” the boy’s sister said in an emotional family address to the media this week.

Naden says the video should be a reminder to police officers, “that they are just as accountable to the community as offenders”.

The video surfaced days after fiery race riots erupted across all 50 states in the US, following the alleged murder of Minneapolis man George Floyd at the hands of police.

NSW authorities were quick to attempt to dampen any links between the Surry Hills arrest and the racial tensions in the US, saying Australia was “not the United States of America" and “Sydney is not Minnesota".

Professor Chris Cunneen, a criminology expert from the University of Technology Sydney, says Australia may not be the US “but in a lot of ways, it’s worse”.

In the past 10 years the number of Aboriginal people charged by police in NSW has increased by more than 67 per cent. For non-Indigenous Australians the increase has been just 8 per cent, according to new figures from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

“I didn’t expect to see that sort of increase over ten years,” says BOCSAR executive director Jackie Fitzgerald. “Particularly when those increases are happening in the face of falling crime rates.”

For example, she says there has been a “massive” decline in overall thefts in NSW, “but for adult Aboriginals in the past 10 years thefts have doubled”.

In the same period there was a 130 per cent increase in Aboriginal people charged with intimidation and stalking offences, which was largely linked to an increase in proactive policing targeting domestic violence.

While there is evidence that proactive policing reduces crime, it also results in more people entering the criminal justice system, which has a flow-on effect for Aboriginal people.

“The cumulative effect of lots of police, court and prison contacts all compounds to deliver a poor result for Aboriginal people,” Fitzgerald says.

So much for "equality under the law":

BOCSAR found that the number of Aboriginal people in prison in NSW increased by 47 per cent in the seven years to March this year, while an Aboriginal defendant is 11 per cent more likely to be refused bail by a court.

Sorry fush and chups folk, don't take it personally. We have to deal with the bigots, white nationalists and white supremacists at the lizard Oz, heiling the glories of Western Civilisation, on a daily basis ...

Time to get back to the comedy of life and conspiracies that would make the lettuce-leaf Illuminati of little England blush with jealousy ...