Andrew Bolt's Blog, 4/6/16; Complex individuals is not how Bolt defines people; Del-Con Media at work; Angry Andeson without the Aussie Flagged Mask; Anti- Trump your a thug. Australian UPF your Australian Pride; Walling the world it's tradition; Adani let's gamble and forget his past record; Billionires at sea; Reverse Racism the myth; Bolt believes Jarryd Roughead's a girly boy;
Tim Blaair living in the land of "me" got a shock to called up before the HRC to discover he might just be wrong that it is a land of 'we'. It must be a sad life for for the wives of Bevis and Butthead watching them trying to copulate but knowing they are only masturbating..
History and life are merely abstractions for these 'me' men who can't grasp the fact that they actually live life in a collective world of the historical and internalized "we" and are obligated to change and reconstruct it. They only wallow in the closets of their minds.
Bolt trying to sell a book to the converted IPA members coupled with Spectator readers. Talk about a hit and run launch 5.30pm -6pm $40 to non IPA members and $15 for members says it all. If your not a Bolt fan stay away. I'm sure security will be there as will UPF fans being offered $10 Tickets unless Bolt is handing out drinks to the under aged. As for the book it's a lazy susan of featherweight ideas put forward by others but in tune with IPA policies . It's not a Bolt book and in no way original.
Bolt repeats himself doesn't he
Whenever
have we heard Bolt employing the use of "we" or that we are all "complex individuals"
to Sudanese, Somalis or Arabic Australians? What Giles says is we are complex individuals and Bolt blames us for that. Multiculturalism is just that and it's what Giles is saying he's an Australian with Aboriginal heritage. However Bolt refuses to let all Australians say that. Did he use it to describe
Nova Peris Bolt simply never uses it nor does he ever treat people accordingly.
Bolt doesn't complain about
Australians using our flag to hide their racist faces he actually
supports and protects them it's the collective shame and history that we have internalized that stereotypes others not just as "complex individuals". Have you seen Bolt or Panahai use the
photos when commenting on those flag masks used in Coburg,no!! However when those
flag masks are evident Bolt calls it Australian
pride not a Xenophobic and racist symbol. Roz Ward is
right.
Crime
and dysfunction in a multicultural society is not only multicultural but
multi-classed as well. The differentiation reflects just that our
society in which we live. However it's not always reflected in the
Institutional responses to it. It's the rate of incarceration of Aborigines
that needs to be looked at. It's the lack of prosecution of corporate crime and white collar crime that needs to be questioned. It's the soft sentencing of white collar
crime that needs a second look. It's why Bolt is an Ultra Conservative
he ignores these social complexities and their cost to the community. He ignores the relativity of history seen from
different perspectives. Crime pays if your one of the white middleclass elite and even more so the higher your power.
Here is a case of the Del-Cons only being satisfied with regaining control of the Liberal Party. Politically un-confident in forming their own Party these extreme conservatives operate with the intent of not only dividing but kidnapping the party. By the Thatcherite use of exaggerated fear about the economy, about Muslim danger, about same sex marriage , about Aboriginal intervention, and even a National Pride that runs counter to the grain of this multicultural nation.
Yes and it's Not Bolt but his drone and troll (reader Peter BH) who runs 30% of Bolt's blogs that is dragged out to do the cut and paste work of the IPA and the News Corp team to confirm a distortion and promote their cause. Ultimately it won't be over until Tony Abbott who has noted this week yet again his acceptance of still being the great conservative leader in the Liberal Party. Until he and they are returned to leadership the crisis will continue within the party itself. We will be returned again to experience life with the ambience of depressed doomsday politics we felt once before with even more uniforms, flags, ceremonies and surveillance than ever before.
This is Bolt and his trolls raising the same old political myth that Muslims have been an un-assimilated minority group in Australia throughout it's history. When in fact they were as much a foundation our nation building as anyone . Most significantly Turks, Bosnians, Lebansese Iranians Iraqis and others that make up 2.5% of our population. What we have seen in recent years an exaggerated bigotry used by conservatives for political reasons since the LNP John Howard government winning office. This is just a reflection of the the extension of Pauline Hanson's Non Nation political agenda adopted by John Howard to win office. The darkest years of this nations noted by our invasion of Iraq in 2003.
I guess a Palestinian kindergarten play interpreting the Palestinian or Gazan collective history which has brought them to a point of explaining where and why they are today in Gaza is Bolt's justification for over 300 children having been killed since October. It's why Bolt empathizes with the extremist Rabbi who has said all Palestinians should be hunted down and killed like rats.
Does Bolt for one moment even think that Israeli education doesn't begin with socializing their Israeli children in the same manner making heroes of the IDF? They then train them by the time their 18 to kill kidnap abuse and injure not only Gazans but Palestinians Arabs and even Christians. If anybody resists their learned brutality they can be shot for simply refusing to obey. I wish Bolt would test his belief in Israeli freedom out.
Bolt can't even accept his own internalized collective misogyny and racism. It's as if Australian or Dutch history has never touched him and he's a purely self made man. That very lack of understanding that accompanies this belief in simply being able to cherry pick his way through historical tradition blinds him to past atrocities and mistakes and it makes him a very small minded and dangerous moving forward. It also make Bolt a very lazy man too as hes referred to this same video before to push his point.
Bolt's Boys the literate Right
Strange how Bolt sees only what he want's to see. The masked Anonymous faces at Coburg were shownand called leftist thugs. However not any of the Australian flag covered faces of of the Reclaim Australia and UPF he supports. One side pro racism armed and ready for a fight called patriots and those opposing any form of racial division but multicultural unity.
Is it surprising that Bolt combs photos and videos to say anti Trump supporters are mere rabble trying to stop democracy at work. As far as Bolt is concerned the Australian UPF are the true Australians wanting to rectify the mistakes of the past that saw Muslims allowed into the country. That it wasn't Democracy back then and is symbolized by UPF protestors today. Trump for Bolt represents the real America the exclusive exceptional America that is not Latino just because the majority of Americans do have Latino names.
America is exceptional spending $600 billion financing war in other countries and making some Americans very rich in the process but not making Americans rich. In fact their armies are made up of the poor. There are military bases in 154 countries around the world most of which aren't wanted and are merely there protecting commercial interests or the interests of unwanted governments. Funny how Bolt calls 400 protestors at a Trump rally thugs. We know listening to Trump that he's is definitely a thug and a crook. However has Bolt done any homework to ask what the disgruntled 400 are about? For a start they are Californians their Mayor is onside Trump is the invader in their city
The Conservative extreme yes but the politics of fear yes
Walled Israel ,Walled,America,Walled Europe World WarZ it'sApartheid by any other name. Any persons found to be illegal or mutant will be required to go to the outside of the wall. Those on the inside are in a universal state of seige. However if there are resources required from the wall' outside we are and will be entitled by the very nature of our power to forcefully corporatize and militarize people to take control over them. That's what the elite mean by globalization nothing more nothing less. We may need walls within walls in walled cities. Walled estates secured for the protection of those eligible to live within them already exist protected by private forces..
Has anybody been to Joberg recently in South Africa where white South Africans live behind razor wire. Where they drive cars with flame throwers underneath for protection.
The 2-3 wealthiest man in Mexico never drives out of his walled compound but takes his helicopter to work. He can't relax in his own country so he has a luxury cruise ship on which he lives 8 months of the year and is on call at all times.
Are the Greens about to be the government or be the tail that will wag the dog like the Conservatives are doing within the Liberal Party? Is Adani a godsend or the devil in disguise? What any sensible person would do is look at his track record wouldn't they? Which on all counts is disastrous. Adani has caused mass environmental destruction and walked away from it and he has consistently done that in the past. When history repeats is Bolt going to say we have to restore the damage done or simply turn his back too.
Bolt seems to be saying all business is speculative and in this case despite Adani's track record it's worth the gamble to allow him to destroy the environment which includes the Barrier Reef. If it fails the whole country can bail the project out and not just the few who stand to gain so it's worth the risk. Of course it is for Adani. It's too big to fail logic and it's that logic that brought about the GFC
Bolt makes out these people sailing to the EU are on a summer cruise not risking life and limb out of desperation. You see Bolt claims to be the arbiter of desperation showing videos of some young men who may not be accepted as refugees telling us they represent the bulk of the asylum seekers. He wants to stereotype the the general population by an exceptional few.
No doubt it's what Bolt's Parents neighbors said when they refused to hide Jews trying to escape the Dutch Nazis in Aalesmeer during WW2. Their motives for leaving were also for betterment they had no idea about the death camps or suspect and there was immanent danger. Nevertheless the Dutch killed a higher % of Dutch Jews than the Germans killed German Jews. Denial is denial no matter what any body says and Bolt is the speculative arbiter deciding these refugees are false. Imagine him in WW2
Asylum is not another word for acceptance of refugee status nor a right to resettlement. However Bolt has intentionally redefined and distorted everything that's occurring for his anti- immigrant stance and his accompanying political agenda.
Is Bolt offended because ignorance is bliss that yes if you think about it the Australian flag does carry with it not just an element but a strong statement of racism with it. Is Bolt saying racism is universal so get on with it. He's not saying that our laws and institutions which structure the way we relate to each other are inherently racist. That the history of these structures have produced enduring stereotypes and not just personal prejudices in the way we relate. So yes shut up you stupid white man nothing a black can say to you is racist in the same way as when you claim not the be racist.
Science is "speculative" Jarryd
" “However, based on our combined results so far, the overall
mortality rate is 22 per cent… Seventy-five per cent of the reef will
come out in a few months time as recovered.”
Bolt cherry picks a statement which by the way does not deny the significance of coral bleaching nor does it deny the findings found on the Northern stretches of the Barrier reef. Russell Reichelt is the chairman of the Marine Park and it's his responsibility to ensure the reef is a commercial tourist success and promoted as such, So he can't be seen using the language of scientists not as dependent on the reefs continued commercial success. Bolt may as well be quoting Minister Hunt here in saying the reef is as well as it's ever been.
" Dr Reichelt said Dr Flannery’s language had been “dramatic” and
“theatrical” and his prognosis, although of concern, was
“speculative"…
Reichelt has not denied anything Flannery has said but has used the word speculative. If a biopsy was done on Bolt and a cancer identified would Bolt take the findings as serious or just "speculative" Would he feel the need for immediate attention or lay back relaxed and say it was purely speculative and sit back and wait? If he was a Hawthorne supporter would he tell Jarryd Roughhead to play the year out because the Cancer researchers were really going to use his press publicity for their own political advantage in an election year to get more money? Which is the most sensible thing to do in this "purely speculative" situation?
1 Bolt gets excited that a month over the past 20 years signifies a trend, Remember Bolt continually saying the planet was cooling over the past 20 years because it wasn't the record 1998 high. He's not saying that any longer. There is a significant difference between variability before it's declared a trend which Bolt's and his deniers plan on. The problem Bolt simply struggles with the notion of peer reviewed science and it's history to the contribution of our knowledge in every field. If he accepted it in he'd be in deniers shock. However he does accept it he uses science in his everyday life and accepts it's benefits in this case he accepts the short term benefit of a pocket full of money for News Corp over and above the reality of scientific knowledge.
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