PN was effectively standing on his own and was ostracised by the establishment & pretty much the entire country.
At a guess your definition of the “entire country” probably ignores pretty much the entire indigenous population? I’m being silly. That’s a ludicrous assumption to make about an entire population, that would be a ridiculous thing to assert, wouldn’t it?
If you do even a cursory amount of googling you will find that there actually were, believe it or not, people campaigning for civil rights in Australia in the 1960s.
The whole point of the article is…
I took a number of points from the article. Such as not making assumptions about people for superficial reasons. Did you read the bit about how the writer acknowledged the assumptions he’s been making, prior to learning a bit more? This bit:
I considered him as a random presence, an extra in Carlos and Smith’s moment, or a kind of intruder. Actually, I even thought that that guy – who seemed to be just a simpering Englishman – represented, in his icy immobility, the will to resist the change that Smith and Carlos were invoking in their silent protest. But I was wrong.
[my bold for emphasis]
I’m genuinely saddened that you could read the same article I did and come away thinking that the whole point of it was to illustrate that Australians are arseholes.
Don’t be such a bed-wetter.
And I’m so glad I posted that anti-bullying week stuff. Really pleased it’s had such a positive impact, and made people think about what they say to people.