Andrew Bolt: Sam Kerr trial shows we’re losing power to race baiters, gender warriors, and hate preachers
Kerr’s comments that a policeman was “stupid and white” were rude at best but was her angry abuse racist? The jury said no, but it’s not that simple.
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A London jury has found Sam Kerr not guilty of racially aggravated harassment for calling a policeman “f---ing stupid and white”.
I doubt many Australians will be that generous to the boorish captain of our women’s soccer team.
If Kerr were a white male captain of a national team and not an Anglo-Indian woman, there’s no doubt she’d have been dumped already.
Consider: she was drunk and vomited inside a taxi, and then refused to pay the Indian driver for the damage. When he drove her to a police station to complain, Kerr’s girlfriend kicked out his back window.
And when the police intervened, Kerr used language most people would think rude at best and racist at worst.
Indeed, were Kerr as white as her girlfriend, she might even be asked whether they were racist to the Indian driver too.
Instead, Kerr played the race card herself, given she had one Indian grandparent. She claimed she’d suffered racism in her youth, and had been patronised by this white officer.
But was her angry abuse racist?
The jury said no – but it’s not that simple. The jury had to find Kerr meant to cause the policeman “harassment, alarm or distress”, and he’d actually felt that. It also had to find Kerr was being racist and not, say, descriptive.
If the jury felt, say, Kerr was racist but the policeman couldn’t really be alarmed or distressed, it had to find her not guilty.
A common excuse made for Kerr is that racism is actually about power. People of colour can’t be racist to whites, because they’re weak and a minority.
Yet in London today, the policeman was of a minority. White Britons now make up only 37 per cent of the population.
And if racism is about power, then many Australians will today feel the sting of being abused as “stupid and white”. Many feel they are losing power to the race-baiters, gender warriors, radical multiculturalists and hate preachers.
Indeed, fear of being white helps to explain why tens of thousands of apparently white Australians now identify as Indigenous instead.
So I’m not surprised Kerr’s judge seemed not to think much of her, warning he could still make her pay: “Her behaviour contributed significantly to the bringing of this allegation. That has a significant bearing on the question on costs.”
Kerr not guilty? Yes, but still no.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Sam Kerr trial shows we’re losing power to race baiters, gender warriors, and hate preachers
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