Some brave students are fighting the new racism of the identity-politics Left.

They include, of course, the Queensland University of Technology students who protested against racial segregation at their uni, which has an Aborigines-only computer lab, only to be sued under the Racial Discrimination Act.

Now there's Alex Joske, who was news editor of the ANU student newspaper Woroni:

Joske, a hard-news aficionado who had been a reporter on the paper covering stories such as Chinese government influence on campus, felt he could steer Woroni towards solid news-breaking and beyond what he saw as the editorial board’s preoccupation with gender politics, ethnicity, the nuances of being gay, and tips from its sex correspondent. It all ended in tears last month... The last straw for Joske, who is half-­Chinese, was when the editorial board commissioned a special issue to be written and edited only by ­“ethnocultural self-­identifying students”, excluding any involvement of students who were white Anglo-Celts. The plans for a non-white ­ethnocultural issue, to be published on May 1, has ignited fierce debate on campus about ­ethnicity, freedom of speech and alleged reverse discrimination, with some parallels with the storm raging in federal politics about the Coalition’s attempt to change section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Joske remonstrated with one of the Woroni editors. “I said, ‘most of my reporters are white’,” he said. “She said, ‘well, I’m so sorry, I guess you’ll have to get some ethnocultural reporters for that edition’.” Joske quit; he was not going to start selecting reporters on the basis of race designated by the editorial board as acceptable.

This isn't the first example of the racism of the Left affecting Woroni:

Student Nick Blood said he was an earlier victim of Woroni’s “institutionalised discrimination” when the editorial board called for opinion pieces to “break the echo chamber” following the election of US President Donald Trump. Five students sent in contributions.... But then the process stopped... The sub-editor in charge of the section said there was a concern about “a lack of diversity with the authors we had so far”. Blood questioned the sub-­editor and established the perceived problem was “not about diversity of opinion” of the contributions, but the fact that they all came from white male students.

And this racism even seems institutionalised at ANU, which, ominously, educates some of the politicians and public service bosses of tomorrow:

The issue was to be organised with ANU’s Ethnocultural ­Department. One of its members, Aditi Razdan, expanded on the call for four temporary sub-­editors in a Facebook post: “Only students of the ANU who identify as ‘ethnocultural’ (self identifies as a person of colour/minority ethnocultural background/Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander, and may have been marked by white supremacy) can apply.”

This cannot end well for this country. We are being divided into a nation of warring tribes. Intellectual engagement is being Balkanised. A new racism is creating divisions that could turn very ugly, and possibly violent.

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Originally published as NO WHITES WELCOME AT ANU NEWSPAPER