Sometimes Australians are a difficult lot to understand.
A man drags his wife and children half way around the world to fight with ISIS/Daesh and he gets killed, the wife and kids want to come home (young children) and Australians (not all) are in an uproar, how dare that wife and those little kids want to come back to Australia? I even heard someone describe the kids as broken and that we don't want broken kids in Australia. These kids are kids and had no control over being dragged to a war zone.
The AFP and Security Agencies are targetting kids in high school for any sign of extremist behaviours, and we stand by and say that's okay with us because kids can be 'evil' for some reason this seems to only apply to 'Muslim' kids .... hmmm... and all this is done in the public eye.
A 13 year old girl makes an horrific racist remark in front of thousands of people and directs it at an Australian, who happens to an Aboriginal man, and everyone leaps to the defence of the 13 year old.
In the past they've been cases of teenage 'boys' trashing their homes with huge public parties, they're ridiculed across the media, including social media.
I would rather have a teenager who trashes a home with an out of control party than one who is racist.
The fact we pick and chose who we defend in so many instances, particularly this case, is simply yet another form of racism. Leaping to find a defence for a racist person ... is racism. Doesn't matter how old you are, if you are willing to make a public racist remark then you must take responsibility for that behaviour.
Some weird double standards happening here in Australia.
