An Australian judge has warned of a “new ‘anti-racism’ religion” and says overuse of the term “racist” is unhelpful and dishonest. 
Speaking at the 2022 Women Lawyers’ Drinks on Aug. 26, Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly said while past Australian governments had racist policies, “the fact that some contemporary problems have been caused or contributed to by racism in the past does not mean that they are the result of racism today.” 
She noted that the ideology of supposed anti-racism is “beginning to assume the dimensions of a religion or a cult.” Under its influence, she noted, people and institutions “are casually and inaccurately labelled as ‘racist’ without any evidentiary basis for the charge.” …