I reckon it's disgraceful on both sides too but I think too much attention is being put on how disgusting the riot at the beach at this one-off event was and not enough on how disgusting the behavior of the Lebanese gangs is all the time...
What happened at the beach was a really stupid reaction/retaliation and is just gonna make the tension even worse now, and it was very wrong seeing young kids even with racist slogans everywhere... But I reckon these ethnic groups of thugs who segregate themselves from everyone else then go around looking for trouble and trying to intimidate everyone is alot worse and the whole thing wouldn't have happened if these groups weren't doing that in the first place. I don't live in Sydney but I very much doubt that you see carloads of Aussie surfer kids head down to Greenacre to look for trouble and terrorize people, like these Leb gangs were obviously doing in Cronulla.
Alot of that is the parents' fault I reckon in the ethnic communities because they make no effort to try to adapt or fit in with the Australian way of life or even learn our language properly so they can communicate in our society, so no wonder alot of their kids are gonna end up less educated than Australian kids and clump together, end up speaking some weird annoying "westie" dialect that fuckin shits me up the wall when I talk to customers from Greenacre & Punchbowl on the phone at work, and have nothing better to do than cause trouble. If people wanna migrate to Australia it should be because they wanna be a part of our culture, learn our language and be grateful to live in a good country instead instead of a war-torn one, rather than expect the benefits of living here but create their own little ghettos and refuse to accept our customs & laws etc and try to prove their strength through intimidating people with violence.
That attitude & culture is bad enough in Melbourne (particularly the west too) and it seems to be 10x worse and a much bigger population of it too in Sydney, so it's no surprise that the people feeling threatened in their own suburb by outsiders coming just to stir trouble are gonna retaliate by trying to prove their strength back in the same way. It's a stupid stupid response and I'm kinda ashamed and sad that Australians would lower themselves to that same level of trying to intimidate people with violence as well - I thought we were above that - but I think people should be paying attention to what has been happening for a LONG time before yesterday's riot that sparked the backlash and try to do something to control or prevent this ethnic gang culture from existing, rather than focusing on the racism involved with what happened yesterday. While there was alot of stupid unnecessary racism, it wasn't so much a race-incited riot as it was a reaction against their behavior. You don't see 5000 people telling the Indian community to fuck off back to India on a beach. Why? Because the Indian community are peaceful, respectful, friendly and try to make the best of our country. It was a riot against gangs & bullying that happened to be aimed at the Lebanese (and the whole kinda middle-eastern & eastern European) community because they are at the core of alot of that.
It also seems like the media & everyone is so much more concerned about the alcohol fulled racism by drunk yobbos on the beach than they are about the Lebs' retaliation with carloads of them heading east with baseball bats smashing up cars and stabbing some dude outside a golf club.
Are you kidding?
