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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsStan Grant — A drive by historical and cultural arsonist
Stan Grant reminds me of a historical and cultural drive-by arsonist who casually flicks the cigarette butt out the window into the long dry grass in full knowledge that it would be a dog whistle to the anarchic activists, vandals and revisionists to foment trouble whilst remaining above the fray as he drives on.
Random Note #167,957 — Unlearn Truth
Unlearn Truth—Think about that for a minute. Say it slowly. Masticate and mull It and let the idea swim around in your cerebral cortex. The admission in that statement is that what you are to unlearn is indeed, the truth. It must be, because it suggests that you unlearn it. So the question becomes one of, if you’re going to unlearn truth, what are you going to replace it with or is the idea simply to leave an empty space, leave it vacant to become rundown, overgrown and filled with junk? If Sydney University and others are serious and are now in the business of deviating from the essence of their core mission and redefining or “unlearning truth” with post truths and alternative truths or facts, or nothing at all, governments should begin to unfund the universities.
Random Note #189,783 – Aboriginal bitterness, resentment and ingratitude
Listening to a couple of aboriginals being interviewed on the ABC earlier this afternoon about Australia Day and Captain Cook’s statue in Hyde Park and I found their position perplexing to say the least.
Both, I’m guessing, would have been in their late 30’s, one a presenter on Radio National the other a lecturer at UTS, so hardly doing it tough and very well acculturated. What you might call aboriginal elites.
What they don’t seem to understand is that all they’re doing with their ungracious and bitter attitude, is undermining the decency and goodwill of average Australians and more specifically, the prospects of a yes vote at the Constitutional Recognition referendum.
Random Note #185,831 — Stan Grant and Captain Cook
having opened the batting on the conversation he’s dog whistling the indigenous activists to carry the debate further whilst he remains above the fray. Now watch for it to be taken up on The Drum and other ABC and academic fora.
PC police are rewriting the world’s history — Brendan O’Neill
Just like China in 1966, the West seems to be being sucked inexorably into its own socio-political, Cultural Revolution “..Everyone’s smashing statues. From Islamic State hotheads sledgehammering ancient artefacts in old Mesopotamian cities to plummy students at Oxford demanding the removal of busts of old colonialists, waging war on the past is all the rage. A Year Zero mentality is on the march. People seem hell-bent on wiping out history, making it invisible, and starting society all over again, cleansed of the likenesses of dead people of whom they disapprove..”
The Anti-Trump Bourbons: Learning and Forgetting Nothing in Time for 2020 — Victor Davis Hanson
Trump’s enraged critics still do not grasp that he is a reflection of, not a catalyst for, widespread anger and unhappiness with globalization, interventionist foreign policy, Orwellian political correctness, identity politics, tribalism, open borders, and a Deep State that lectures and condemns but never lives the consequences of its own sermonizing.
George Brandis and the Quivering Lip — Quadrant
He vehemently condemned Hanson for the gross disrespect she has shown to “a great religion” by flippantly mocking one of its most recognisable symbols. Did he ever make a similarly impassioned speech in the Senate (or anywhere else) castigating Islamists terrorists who refuse to stand in court as required? Those defendants were disrespecting Australian law and culture, which he is tasked to uphold and protect.
PC Forces Go To War On Facts — Michael Sexton, The Australian
The forces of political correctness in all these countries are prepared to wage a war on much of modern history because they believe that anything, past or present, that is inconsistent with their fiercely held articles of faith must be expunged.
The ABC’s obsession with race. This time your kids are in the frame.
Just two minutes and you will be alarmed at how the likes of the ABC and make-work, unhinged academics try to justify their own existence with their obsession over racism and are looking for it everywhere, even where it doesn’t exist. And if they can’t find it, set about conjuring and creating it with more self serving research . This is from the ABC RN Life Matters program last Friday How do we talk to children about racism, where they devoted an entire 30 minutes or so of the program to racism in children. The first two minutes is all you need to listen to. What you’ll learn in that 2 minutes is—–
When a Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to assassinate Republicans, the media were quick to disassociate a politician from his radical supporters
So let’s take a short trip down memory lane and recall how the media treated the attempted assassination of House Republicans by a Bernie Sanders supporter. James Hidgkinson, who evidently put a lot of thought and planning into his massacre. He had a prolific history of outspokenness in support of Sanders and was known to be fanatical. No one on the left raised a peep about him.