What is discrimination and is it always bad?
Short & Curly
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
One of the best places to be on a hot summer's day is cooling off in a swimming pool. But until the 1960s Aboriginal people were not allowed to swim in the local pool in Moree, in country New South Wales. They were excluded because of a reason that had nothing to do with the ability to swim. They were excluded only because they were Aboriginal. So what is discrimination and what makes it bad?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey Carl here, just a note to our indigenous short and curly listeners. |
| 0:09.0 | Today's episode may contain audio recordings of people who have died. |
| 0:14.0 | Funky hibiscus 40s, Carl. |
| 0:18.0 | Thanks, Molly. |
| 0:19.0 | And what a nice crocodile skin one piece. |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay, sunscreen, check, floaties. crocodile skin one piece. Thank you. Okay sunscreen check. |
| 0:24.0 | floaties check one two three cannonball |
| 0:29.0 | swimmers are reminded that all children under the age of 10 must be with an adult. |
| 0:38.0 | Nothing like a good soak at your local pool on a hot day to wash your worries away. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey Molly, it's fun for the whole family. |
| 0:47.0 | It truly is one of life's greatest pleasures and the perfect break from |
| 0:52.0 | slogging away in that stifling recording studio filled with your |
| 0:55.7 | mid-summer sweat stank. |
| 0:58.6 | It is indeed, but can we get our work done in time if we spend all day at the pool? |
| 1:03.6 | Of course, Carl, we're going to make an episode right here at the pool. |
| 1:09.1 | There's no way we're going to be able to find any curly ethical issues while we're blissing out by this peaceful pool. |
| 1:15.7 | Oh, Carl, you beautiful, naive ladybug. I know exactly what we're going to talk about today. Do you want a clue? |
| 1:25.0 | A guessing game. I love games. I know you do. Okay, today's episode is about what happens when you treat someone differently based on something about them. |
| 1:36.0 | If anyone of a different skin color was to try and get into the pool. They'd be like denied entry and they were really |
| 1:46.0 | like excluded out of a lot of the things that went on. |
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