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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsNew York Times refuses to use term ‘female genital mutilation’ for being ‘culturally loaded’
Watch for the ABC and Fauxfacts to follow suit. Downplay and redefine out of existence the “procedure” on the altar of cultural sensitivity. Water down and dilute to the point where it becomes a case of ho-hum, turn the page nothing to see here.
Identity Politics And Groupthink On Campus — Bruce Bawer, Front Page
On American campuses, to a staggering extent, group identity has supplanted traditional morality and critical thinking. Your skin color, your sex, your sexual orientation: at many a university, these attributes now matter at least as much as anything intrinsic about you as an individual.
Abdel-Magied’s defenders are brainless on free speech — Andrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt pretty much nails the canard being floated that somehow the criticism of Abdel-Magied is anti free speech. Of course it’s the exact opposite. This entire episode is a demonstration that the best way to fight her free speech is with better free speech. It’s not about piling on, its about fighting back. As the celebrity and novelty Muslim and multi culti pet, she ticks all the ABC cultural diversity boxes. She is the exotic, flashy person of colour, a woman and a Muslim. She’s also vacuous. The fact that it had to be “brought to her attention” how offensive her post was, indicates just how silly, ignorant, immature and lacking in judgment she is. This further begs the question as to what qualities she brings to public broadcasting and why, apart from her exotic, try hard, Jenny Key sctick, the ABC invests so much in someone who offers so little
ABC Shielded from criticism — The Australian
I’m astonished but not surprised. It seems quite apparent, even to the most casual or disinterested observer, that the ABC has either lost its way or been hijacked by the green left. All evidence points to the later. So divorced and alienated from the community and taxpayers it’s chartered to serve makes it necessary its time for an inquiry into the ABC. ABC bias by omission in the Don Dale episode was absolutely central. If the story was produced as told by the players their wouldn’t have been a program and therefore a Royal Commission
Random Note #177,652 – UPDATE — Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Anyone who seeks advice from Hizbut Tahir (as Yassmin Abdel Magied did after the Q&A knockdown drag out with Jacquie Lambie) is unfit to work on the ABC.
The new ideological war is already on the home front — Mark Latham, The Daily Telegraph
He (Gramsci) argued that the working class had been seduced by hegemony: the communications and values systems of capitalism had tricked people into supporting the politics of free enterprise. In the 1970s and ’80s, European Marxists updated this theory to address questions of identity. They argued that modern capitalism has fried our brains — that no one can truly know themselves and their race, gender and sexuality due to the impact of systemic propaganda.
Citizenship seekers could count on fiscal foresight — Adam Creighton, The Australian
If This Doesn’t Make You Angry You Haven’t Got A Pulse. “…Social security and welfare, which includes the smorgasbord of family payments, childcare subsidies, and age and disability support payments is expected to balloon from $158.6 billion this financial year to $191bn by 2020. The biggest among these is the Age Pension — more than $45bn a year already. And the emerging National Disability Insurance Scheme will easily edge out family tax benefits A and B for second place within a few years…”
ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied forced to delete Anzac Day post
The fact that it had to be brought to Abdel-Magied’s attention, demonstrates just how lacking in insight and judgement she is. AND in a week where we are talking about Australian values, she demonstrates that she has no idea about Australian values, traditions or mores.
Anzac Day 2017 — The late Bill Leak at his very best
Saudi Arabia on UN Gender Equality Commission
This one sucks the oxygen out of the room. “..The United Nations’ Economic and Social Council has voted, by secret ballot, to place the kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the Commission on the Status of Women..”