A reflection on Bondi
Source: www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au Given the wall-to-wall coverage of the Bondi attack, its horror, and the feelings and thoughts that have swirled from the eye of that storm, I feel the need to express an idea I've had for some time. What is it that fosters a terrible action like this by a father and his son? And yet again, the perpetrators who displayed their hate, in this case, of Jews, by violent means, are men. While I applaud every effort to minimise / eradicate antisemitism, I believe it is a symptom of a much deeper division in our society, one based on the belief that one race is "superior" to all others. Or that one race is "inferior" to all others. It doesn't matter the race. To make matters worse, and deeply entwined with this, is religious arrogance and chauvinism. "My religion is right and yours is wrong." The sooner we disentangle centuries and millennia of myth-telling, closed-minded beliefs, the deliberate creatio...
