Democracy, we are often told, runs on losers’ consent.
When the losers of a democratic vote refuse to consent to the result, then democracy itself is in danger.The losers of the October 14 referendum appear to be refusing to consent to the democratic decision of the vast majority of Australian voters.
When the vast majority of Australian voters said No to a Voice to parliament they were really saying: “Race doesn’t matter”. When they claimed that this wasn’t about race but about “descent” or about “the earliest Australians” they gave away the game.The Voice was about a Voice for one group of Australians based on their family tree.And the “No” vote means that Australians were saying: your family tree doesn’t matter.As the No result makes powerfully clear that Australians are refusing to judge people based on who they are descended from.
In India this sort of thinking has created the caste system—with the Brahmin caste at the top and the Untouchables at the bottom.We take everyone at their worth and judge them as individuals.
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