A little story from Uncle Andrew on failing your VCE
We are celebrating. Our daughter was this
morning accepted into the university of her dreams. But other Year 12
students will this week feel devastated by the results and think their
life has been wrecked. How wrong they are, and let me show them why.
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De Andrew Bolt was a lost soul until he was married with children. He
has a great reluctance to say " I'm what others made me" What the women
but more importantly the children in his life made him. Those at other
times he speaks of as his luggage. Bolt didn't "buckle down" the we more
than the me did. However Bolt didn't take that much further than his
front fence. The way he expresses himself seems to indicate the polish
has gone off the family we a little as well. Last Xmas it was "i have to
take my family to Bali sounded like a burden. So kids there is truth in
what Bolt says if he can make it anybody can. If you come to realize
the importance of the relationships you make. Life isn't as Bolt says
just a whole lot individuals banging into each other It's a whole lot of
individuals creating a social reality they want it is about the we and
your part in it not just about the me buckling down alone. Bolt talks
about the urgency of saving Aboriginal children he talks about it has he
saved one?
This is absurd and sinister. University
students who said racial segregation is wrong now face yet another legal
bid to punish them for hurting the feelings of people who support such
apartheid. How can the Turnbull Government allow this bullying and
censorship?
Ultimately
it seems Bolt doesn't believe in special needs or positive
discrimination of any kind. For Aborigines for Women for the Aged etc
etc But he certainly believes in discrimination of refugees migrants
religions. You see Bolt lives under the fantasy that what he's done he's
done alone without a leg up. I guess you have to let the man live his
illusions. Lets face it he didn't have much confidence in his daughter
just massive relief. Why did she have no Cultural Capital? how many
Aboriginal kids attended her school? How many Aboriginal parents
experienced the relief Bolt experienced. I'm pretty certain those whose
children did VCE this year experienced pride long ago and continued to
experience it no matter what. Positive discrimination has proved an
assett the Naplan test showed just how well indigenous kids improved.
Why does Andrew Bolt declare assistance of any kind racist if that's the
case you can't get more privileged in a society that values private
property and wealth through inheritance and the protection of it by law
as a primary value and calls that a level playing field. Isn't that
material apartheid what did those that inherited the earth do to merit
it?
The fundamental lie and missing
from this fantasy tale is Tony Nope Nope Nope Abbott. Labor conceived of
a system new in it's entirety. A system cleary ready to take the
country into the future of worlds best communication system. Tony Abbott
Mr Nope against all expert advice called it an over priced
entertainment system and Mr I'm not technology appointed Malcolm
Turnbull to run the management of building the current Frankenstein of a
system that was guaranteed to fail why? Firstly Abbott wanted Turnbull
out of the way where better than to put him in charge of the Titanic. If
he refused he would have proved not to be the team player he claimed to
be if he accepted he'd go down with the ship. Abbott didn't care
whether NBN was going to sink. Abbott didn't care that the country would
be put behind by some 50 years in Commerce, Health or Education a
faster and better system wasn't his priority $120+ bill petty cash
because the shit wouldn't hit the wall until 2020. This was about
politics and when politicians make decisions in the own interests and
bury the science. Maurice Newman has not mentioned Tony Abbott in any of
this and yet Tony Abbott gave birth to one of Australia's biggest
financial disaster taking us from one of the best OECD countries in
communications to one of the worst. 
Teachers preaching politics at captive students
This sounds almost like child abuse. A
Sydney public school has indoctrinated nine-year-old students, who've
now signed a school petition against child refugees in detention after
being fed horror stories. Big surprise: the principal is a former Labor
politician. What a coincidence that his views are now theirs, rather
than those of most voters.
" Have you wondered what kind of teacher
could possibly think it appropriate to wear shirts with political
slogans at schools, here is a sample:" Bolt
Bolt believes men in suits like himself with hidden political agendas are fare better and lee activists than those with Tees
Bolt goes further"Strange. Somehow I just didn't need the slogans to identify the politics of some of them." Bolt
"Not punished? What signal does that send students about rules and authority?" Bolt
Zie and hir are just bullies
Just when you think this passive-aggressive
victim politics has reached new levels of absurdity, along comes the
Victorian Government - again: "Victorian government
workers are being discouraged from using 'heteronormative' terms such as
'husband' and 'wife' in a new guide to communicating with the LGBTI
community."
What nonsense coming from
a man who demands government Institutions should employ staff according
to who they vote for . Your CV should declare your political
affiliation. Particularly if you work for the ABC and Education.
Mia Freedman asks for my help to escape her bubble
Mia Freedman was so shocked by Donald
Trump's win that she's decided to talk to conservatives to discover if
she's living in a bubble. Our chat is now up on this podcast.
16 De" Last month Bolt said "THE question now isn’t whether Donald Trump is just a moron or an outright menace who could blow up the world.
The question is why a braggart, buffoon, liar, narcissist
and sexist with almost no political principles came so close to
becoming president of the world’s greatest power." Bolt
Today Bolt is Trump's great supporter how the fuck
can he help himself let alone offer others help. He's drowning but not
waving which is good to see.
Amusing thing is Bolt appeals against those that
stigmatize, demonize and objectify it seems as if Bolt was talking about
himself. It's strange Bolt runs his life declaring himself to be a
skeptic it's what science is all about. Yet Bolt overlooks that being a
doubter has nothing to do with skepticism being a man of opinion has
nothing to do with skepticism skepticism is yes evidence tested not in
isolation but strictly peer reviewed and not just resulting in just
another group of opinionators that agree as Bolt gathers when objecting
to global science objecting to the NT Royal Commission. Bolt prefers the
company of politicians who don't rely on reason or evidence or even
facts to state their case. Journalists to some degree are our public
skeptics Bolt's not he's a journalists worst nightmare but then neither
is Mia Freedman. Bolt keeps referring to politeness rather
than need, passion what did politeness ever do for historic changes.
Women weren't polite the suffragettes fought for change. When
Politeness dress and debating are emphasized as they are by Bolt they
are calls to distract from the realities that exist and are in urgent
need of address. These things don't lie on just a neat continuum that
explains all how trite is Bolt?
There is one truth and one truth
Andrew Bolt sells. A truth that proves his hypocrisy. That he is a
solipsist living in a land of his own un-shared. Ye he's the man in the
corner. He demands that he be understood as a complex multi layered
individual that Australia is made up of complex multi layered
individuals like himself. Andrew
Bolt doesn't speak for all of us nor do we for him. He doesn't believe
that over time we have formed a system of relationships that don't
always operate for the benefit of us all and so requires to be changed.
He maintains it does but that some of us refuse to fit into that system
his. We are to blame and aren't victims of it. The one in which he's
most comfortable and rewards him. However
Andrew Bolt jumps the shark and believes Michael Mansel is
representative of a collective other than his and he is more that just
an individual on the outside. He's an Aboriginal whose ideas are
representative of another collective. So it seems Bolt's world is and
isn't a collective and it is and isn't a world of individuals either. Currently
our Constitution is racist but then Bolt wants it to be maintained and
left unchanged. It too allows for the apartheid laws Bolt denies.
Mansell recognizes this Bolt denies it. Mansel simply says history
proves his point. Bolt denies history out of sight and says he's more
indigenous than Michael Mansell. That may leave Bolt in a world of his
own but definitely not in a reality shared by anyone.It
seems Andrew Bolt lives his life in an a-historic fantasy world along
with unicorns and Puff the Magic Dragon. where as the rest of us live in
Australia a place whose history began to be shared with the people who
were here first. People who we hold close as a unique assett but at the
same time in the same breathe we don't recognize as close and who we
treat among the worst in the world. A people who know they are here and
who know they have been ignored because they often have to struggle
harder to survive. Bolt's schizoid hypocrisy blames them for that
struggle which is basically constituted by the fact that he doesn't
want to recognize their existence and difference only his. He is as
indigenous more so than most of them. I'm
prepared to believe Bolt is little more than an unbelievable abstract
but the fact that he won't fuck off makes him real and my quality of
life far less palatable less agreeable for most of us in fact.
Particularly for those above whose history he denies.
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