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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsThe newly established Paul Ramsey Foundation is in the frame of the hard left — Keith Windschuttle, Quadrant
Still don’t believe that our universities have been taken over by the hard, hard, hard, Marxist left who are out to trash Western Civilisation? With the announcement of the creation of the Paul Ramsey Foundation a month or so ago, charged with the promotion and teaching of Western Civilisation, I wondered just how long it would take before it was infected, infested and captured by the hard left. Guess what??
Keith Windschuttle bells the cat. “..If the Paul Ramsay Foundation funds the University of Sydney to run its Western civilisation program, Professor Jagose is one of the key personnel who will appoint lecturers to teach it and decide how it will be administered and assessed. The foundation should also note that her speciality, queer theory, has no connection whatsoever to any traditional Western academic discipline. It is a recently concocted ideology from identity politics..”
Think of Palestine, Yassmin said, so I did — Andrew Bolt
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once said that if the Arabs would lay down their arms there would be no more war but if Israel lay down its arms, their would be no more Israel. This 2 minute video makes his point.
Former Australian of the Year finalist Eman Sharobeem exits boards, SBS amid fraud investigation — Sun Herald
This reads like the cv for Yassmin Abdel Magied except it’s not. It’s another, similar one, from a woman who has been able to oil her way on to a number of multi culti government boards, commissions, councils and committees with what is apparently a fake cv of her background, experience and qualifications (two PhD’s. Psychology and business admin) Her alleged exploits, including credit card fraud and phony qualifications are now the subject of an ICAC investigation.
Female genital mutilation and what we’re really talking about beneath the weasel words ‘genital cutting’ — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This redefining and diminishing of a barbaric crime, which is what it is, is almost as bad as the original act. What next? Are we going to redefine facial acid attacks because they too seem to have a cultural dimension? What about stoning? And if not why not?
Or closer to home do we redefine domestic violence or rape in aboriginal communities because they are culturally load terms?
Another movie I think we’ve seen before
I think we've seen this movie before. It ended badly for Coopers as I recall, but now Heineken are giving the concept a run.
Whooping should be banned because it excludes deaf people — Telegraph
From the “We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto” files “… Students who whoop, cheer and clap should face “consequences” because they are excluding deaf people, delegates at the National Union of Students conference said…”
Random Note #177,953 — Populism
I find it Interesting how the left derides and rails against what they call, populism. Funny thing is that what they interpret as populism, most people, who think beyond the cliche would understand that what we’re talking about is the popular will or the will of the majority of the people. Otherwise expressed as democracy. So next time you hear the sneering, condescending squeals and the putdowns of “populism” just remember what they’re really sneering and squealing about is the inconvenience of democracy.
Read of the week — The global elites are headed for a fall and they don’t even know it — Damon Linker
Sure, populism’s a nuisance. But we’re keeping it at bay. We just need to stay the course, fiddle around the edges a little bit, and certainly not give an inch to the racists and xenophobes who keep making trouble. We know how the world works, and we can handle the necessary fine tuning of the meritocracy. We got this.”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
And yet in this controversy, our national broadcaster finds it impossible to state a clear position. We lack respect for our forebears and we steal from those who will succeed us. In my view, we are becoming a self-centred and selfish generation.
Saudi Arabia sentences atheist to death for video renouncing Islam — Daily Mail
Saudi Arabia has sentenced an atheist to death for uploading a video in which he renounced Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. The man has been identified locally as Ahmad Al Shamri who is in his 20s and from the town of Hafar al-Batin. Saudi authorities first picked him up in 2014 after he uploaded the video showing men and women dancing which led to him being charged with atheism and blasphemy