tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post9112144609318510973..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Our quagmireAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-21771658514998261892016-10-24T20:24:20.687+11:002016-10-24T20:24:20.687+11:00Hanson has consistently identified Islam as monoli...Hanson has consistently identified Islam as monolithically terrorist. If you've identified some isolated statement where she acknowledges non-terrorist Muslims then that's nice - but it goes against the bulk of her schtick to the point where it has no credibility, whether coming from her or from you.<br /><br />Again: the ability to exercise compassion *is* the fitness of civilisation, whether in Australia or Germany or Syria or anywhere else, really.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-45178512893190887162016-10-24T14:53:12.310+11:002016-10-24T14:53:12.310+11:00Good point on her racist Hurstville statement. On ...Good point on her racist Hurstville statement. On the other hand, take her words on wanting to work with the Muslim community (for what it's worth) to end terrorism. That's firmly civnat stuff with her premise that through fine calibrations culture can be defended while accommodating everyone. A racist response would be to stake the claim that Muslim immigration was done against the consent of the people and thereby their citizenship is void.<br /><br />Last time I checked, the One Nation website had a mere single deliberately vague mention of demographic preservation. All the rest is Rise Up junk. No surprise that the morons at One Nation are ideologically inconsistent.<br /><br />As for the shared humanity concept, you've succinctly narrowed down our current difference in world view. It works as intended for post-WW2 Europe. Add in airliners and you are then exercising compassion against the fitness of civilisation. I do note that you have not tried to reconcile shared humanity with the German situation and cognitively depressed refugees.wdawdawdawdawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602599078961480977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-6833822061437748772016-10-17T17:14:05.313+11:002016-10-17T17:14:05.313+11:00Don't kid yourself that the masses ever led Ho...Don't kid yourself that the masses ever led Howard, Anon.Mercurialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531202189169082683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-66111418433706048742016-10-17T09:41:24.554+11:002016-10-17T09:41:24.554+11:00Adrian, your first sentence was crap and it went d...Adrian, your first sentence was crap and it went downhill from there.<br /><br />Hanson recently referred to people in Hurstville being worried about an Asian takeover, something that her fans falsely insist that she left back in the '90s. What she means by a statement like that is no matter what you do, no matter how hard you work to fit in and make something for yourself, Hanson and her goons will never, ever accept you.<br /><br />The notion of a shared humanity is the basis for civilisation. People like you are unable to wage wars on the basis of culture through want of ammunition.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-56898748909833620112016-10-11T21:55:28.368+11:002016-10-11T21:55:28.368+11:00Please Sir, Some more?Please Sir, Some more?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-34842798908521690172016-09-22T17:25:30.284+10:002016-09-22T17:25:30.284+10:00Hi Andrew, are you going to keep this blog going? ...Hi Andrew, are you going to keep this blog going? I realize your not exactly reaching millions, but I think you are doing very important work here and would like to see you continue.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-19955460429613150512016-09-01T19:23:15.558+10:002016-09-01T19:23:15.558+10:00This piece meanders all over the place, and the ce...This piece meanders all over the place, and the central point regarding bipartisanship and mandatory detention is simply wrong. <br /><br />If detention policies under Keating were the same thing as what Howard did after Tampa, it wouldn't have been the electoral fillip it was, the kicking that kept on giving. It was not bipartisan. It became bipartisan because the media was ferocious about it (before, not because, it was bipartisan) and because of the dirty secret that the majority of Australians wanted it, admit it or not. It's fashionable to blame the pollies on this but they follow where the masses lead in this instance. <br /><br />Labor tried to escape bipartisanship under Rudd. Look what that got them. Failing to mention that era in the middle of this rant rather undercuts the credibility. <br /><br />There is every reason to believe an ALP government, while not ending mandatory detention, would stop the gratuitous cruelty and negligence that marks the Coalition's handling, because we've seen it. <br /><br />In the meantime, if you want to change mandatory detention, stop going after politicians. The media would help, but what you really need is a campaign to change the public mind. It kind of happened in 07 before News Corp and a new wave of boats turned the tide. It needs to happen again. Lobbying the politicians is pointless until they have reason to believe the public is on side. <br /><br />I doubt the Guardian trove even made a dent on the public conciousness, incidentally. Needs something like the Don Dale video. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-91783118308606312322016-08-21T17:58:36.012+10:002016-08-21T17:58:36.012+10:00Hanson is sincerely non-racist. She believes that ...Hanson is sincerely non-racist. She believes that culture is what matters to cohesion and trust in society, and our surroundings are products of this culture, including toilets. Here her instincts are right but her conclusion is wrong. Western values like liberty, individualism and self reliance are hereditary on a population scale, owing to European scores on trust of strangers and altruism. There is no minority group in Australia that has successfully transplanted these values in place of their keen sense of collective group interest. Solicitations by jokers like Rand Paul to Mexicans fall on deaf ears. They prefer La Raza.<br /><br />If we amplify non-white immigration to its demographic extreme, the nation will simply abolish itself. We don't need to fade Australia into a mere landing strip for the benefit of labour costs or because the professors tell us a hint of racial solidarity between ourselves will cause another holocaust.<br /><br />The humanitarian intake system in the EU demonstrates that the shared humanity notion ends in destruction of civilisation. Young males in Germany will soon be 50/50 refugee and the future demographic equilibrium will tip the nation's IQ to below that which can sustain the welfare state. Germany is terminal unless it starts racial deportation. Worrying about how Australia's humanitarian record fares under judgment of suicidal lunatics is fanciful.<br /><br />http://newobserveronline.com/iq-93-invaders-will-wreck-germany/<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeb09GS7ids Douglas Whitman: "The Evolutionary and Biological Reality of Race"wdawdawdawdawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602599078961480977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-48313420037952753262016-08-19T01:55:51.957+10:002016-08-19T01:55:51.957+10:00I find it interesting to call Gerry Hand, Nick Bol...I find it interesting to call Gerry Hand, Nick Bolkus, Laurie Ferguson and Duncan Kerr who were all around when Keating started the racist prisons as ''lefties', they are not people I would ever invite to my home as their racist, facist tendencies would lead me to evicting them rapidly.<br /><br />What we have in reality is the ALP who still want to be protectionist against brown people without actually invoking their beloved white Australia policy and opportunist racists in the liberals who don't care who they hurt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-61368911769715156382016-08-18T17:23:04.965+10:002016-08-18T17:23:04.965+10:00Yes. Except that in the Iraqi case it's the S...Yes. Except that in the Iraqi case it's the Sunnis who need somewhere to go. In the Sunni majority areas they've still got remnants of ISIS/DAESH or wrecked cities where the DAESH extremists have been driven out and pro government Shi'ite militia are wreaking revenge and they've been driven out of the Shia majority areas.<br />Rais, Perth, WA.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13434191507256659046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-15059419334941320142016-08-18T11:26:51.505+10:002016-08-18T11:26:51.505+10:00People do not want to know about the suffering of ...People do not want to know about the suffering of asylum seekers. They would rather hide behind the tattered rag of respectability that this country is saving refugees from drowning at sea.<br /><br />Politicians like that line too. It is always being trotted out. Peter Dutton used it again this morning on the ABC. I have only heard fragments of that interview but I heard him say, for the umpteenth time that the refugees should go home. <br /><br /> Go home? Where is security for an Hazara in Afghanistan, a family who have fled the rubble of Aleppo or a Shia Iraqi. It is always a case of DON'T MENTION THE WAR when politicians are questioned about asylum seekers. I would love a journalist to confront Dutton with the bleeding obvious. He knows as well as everyone else that asylum seekers have literally fled for their lives.<br /><br />Again Dutton said these people will not be taken in by Australia. He should be grilled about where they are to go.<br /><br />Thankyou for an excellent post Andrew. I appreciate the way you anchor your analysis in context and amuse with tidbits like the reference to Australasian Post and the dunnies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com