Soft-Headed Legal 'Experts' Should Leave Our Justice System Alone

Why do so many proposals to lift up Indigenous people only serve to keep them down?

Take this idea from the geniuses at The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration …

Judges should be “trauma-informed” when dealing with Indigenous defendants and consider the “pervasive intergenerational effects of settler-colonialism” when presiding over them in court, a new 200-page guidebook endorsed by the country’s peak judicial body says.

It’s not compassionate and it’s not caring. It’s pure racism.

Of course the suggestion is racist towards non-Indigenous people who, presumably, will be judged without reference to the pervasive intergenerational effects of First Fleet convictism. (I’m still in therapy)

But the idea that Indigenous defendants should not be judged without taking into consideration events that occurred 200 years ago is also the height of racism towards blacks!

The group of young Indigenous people who broke into my house in the middle of the night and stole my car while I was living in Townsville were not victims of Captain Cook. They were lawless thieves.

And even if they were suffering from the “pervasive intergenerational effects of settler-colonialism” … events that occurred 200 years before they were were born don’t remove their personal agency.

It’s the height of racism to suggest that Indigenous people are somehow less capable of moral responsibility.

If a Jew commits a crime, do we go easy on him because his forebears went through the Holocaust?

No? Why not?

Because we believe Jewish Australians …