6 November

I sat next to a Muslim woman on a plane yesterday. She looked very uncomfortable, and was obviously aware of being stared at by many people, in fear. She hardly spoke a word of English and needed my help to figure out the seatbelt and also in finding her way around the terminal when we landed. She was extremely grateful. Made me think about how we got to be at this point. The wing nut was a big part of it, whipping us all into frenzies of hatred and fear at every opportunity, following his master 'relaxed and comfortable' John Howard. Reminds me of the joke I heard from an Asian comedian recently, talking about "Asian drivers". He said most paedophiles he's seen are white Anglo-Saxon men, so he now assumes all white men are paedos.