Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Okay, things must have seriously changed. I thought that if you were black, you weren't even allowed into Australia. And I've always been told that as an American, you could pretty much immigrate anyplace but Australia. That unless you were born in a part of the Commonwealth, you could never become an Australian citizen. But fair enough, I stand corrected. But, we have over 1 million legal immigrants a year, God knows how many illegal.

You never did explain how acknowledging that allowing that large a percentage of immigrants (different language, different customs, health issues) may cause problems is being racist. Would you care to elaborate?
Australia has changed thankfully a lot since the 1960's as have quite a few countries.

My statement:
Either statement given the context could be construed as rather racist.
Particularly could be construed.

I was inquiring into DA's statement was it the immigration that was the problem or the French or the Muslims. The last two could be seen as a racist statement.

Without data to back me up and saying the following:
If I say that immigration is okay except for Muslims that is racist.
If I say that immigration is okay except for the French as they cannot handle it that would be racist.
If I say that immigration of all kinds can cause problems that would not be racist as I am not singling out a group.