They may have a point. Language is powerful. Take the recent ABC tweet:

“Far-right activists and young men of African appearance have clashed at St Kilda Beach, after the activists refused to stop filming the men while they played soccer.”

The comments that followed basically fell into three categories: Those who questioned the need to point out that the young men were of “African appearance”, those who objected to the term “far-right activists” and those who warned that young men of a darker complexion playing soccer made people feel unsafe so we need laws to change so that police can arrest such people for the crime of inciting racism by their appearance.

Of course, I wondered why the tweet didn’t read:

“Adult male filming attractive teenagers at the beach refused to stop even after police request”

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