Now given that I find prejudice and bigotry repugnant it is probably impossible for me to ever wholly agree with Corey Bernardi, but I can at least understand where he is coming from. Yep I actually said that, I can kind of see Corey Bernardi’s point of view (I feel like I need a shower).
That isn’t the same as agreeing with it. I don’t, but I at least get why some people feel section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act should be modified. It is a bit of an unfair simplification to say those who want to amend The Act want a legislative right to racially insult and offend others. The idea that I could unintentionally offend someone with an offhand comment and be found to be acting unlawfully does throw up the interesting conundrum that the lawfulness of my action is subjectively decided by how easily offended my audience is. Is this how our laws should work? Read full article
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Do you think we make our own luck? At what I might hesitantly call the macro level, we obviously have little control over many major events that influence our lives. The level of privilege we are born into, genetics, aspects of our health and many other major tragedies and unexpected benefits that touch our lives unevenly without any control on our part.
But many times we are contributors to our luck. Read full article
So I was pretty dismissive of Sonia Hanson- I mean Kruger (it is hard to tell them apart now) in a recent post, although I want to again point out I said she is stupid but not necessarily racist. She waded into a discussion of something she really didn’t understand (or hadn’t bothered to think about) the complexities of.
Despite her ignorance on the subject, some Australians felt that Kruger had a right to be heard on this subject. While many articles like mine were critical of Kruger’s stupidity, others were quick to jump to her defence. Now I don’t mind being criticised and having to defend my position (don’t feel sorry for me) but I never really had to, as no one raised a logical rebuttal to any arguments made critical of Kruger. The general defence of Kruger and her ilk has been the rather oxymoronic argument, ‘Don’t use your free speech to criticise someone else using their freedom of speech.’ Read full article |
I realised that the website was getting a little difficult to keep track of and people would have no way of keeping track of which new posts were recent. I will use this page to display links to any new articles from now on.
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