I agree with your point re. consistency and also it likely being a slip of the tounge in the heat of the battle.
While alot of people would like to say, he said it...he must have been thinking it...he must mean it- I totally disagree. Most would be aware that saying something like that is most likely to get a response and I dare say it wouldn't have been until it was too late that Fletcher realised he said the wrong thing.
Most of us would've said atleast something we didn't mean at one stage of our life in the heat of the battle just to get a response or as a case of one-upmanship.
It is wrong to asume that Fletcher thinks this way just because he blurted it out at the time he did.
I assumed you had a little bit to do with the aboriginal community Mata and was just putting what I have to do with our local community to show I have got some experience/ idea on the situation as it is.