The new racism - black on white
The number of blacks recently shot by police isn't entirely reported by Bolt why because Bolt's narrative of reverse racism doesn't exactly fi the case of a 13 year old being shot for carrying a BB gun. Nor does the case of an unarmed black man being shot during a traffic stop and the officer charged with manslaughter. However Charlotte is a case that takes Bolt's fancy because he can cry reverse racism and flip the story. Bolt's evidence " The brother of the dead man says "all the white people are f..ing devils" Bolt finds this narrative convenient to raise fear here despite the fact the event occurred in Chatlotte "Victim politics and identity politics have created this racist movement, which is now threatening to come here, too." In fact Bolt is the loudest media provoker of violence since Alan Jones and the Cronulla riots.
Racism is not a single event it's a history of systemic institutionalized bias ,predjudice and violence against a particular group based primarily on color. So it makes no difference if the policeman was black white or brindle what does make a difference is the regular and systemic bias shown in the statistics of blacks been shot by police. The % of blacks shot and armed is far less than whites. Bolt however proves racism does exist because the likelihood of blacks shot having a prior is greater for the very reason Bolt denies Racism in the US justice system. Trump says Racism only began with Obama. Guess Bolt agrees with that as well.
Hanson supporter attacked on campus
Bolt continues his reverse flipping by declaring that Muslims are the instigators of attacks on good white citizens who are entitled to support Pauline Hanson but are intimidated by Muslim rhetoric. Basically Bolt's argument is his usual and simplistic flip. Exactly the same as Reverse racism just fill in the blanks and put neo fascist Muslims in place of neo fascist Hansonites.Truth in Humour
Flipping Arguments Bolt's core tactic
The power move in the Socratic classroom is to ask a student who has committed to a particular argument for a few minutes (or more) to “flip it,” i.e., assume the opposite position based on the same facts. This facility is obviously healthy for a practicing lawyer, but it sure is irritating elsewhere. It's based on games and the belief for one moment that all arguments are equally as good
But not everything has two or more sides. Some issues are complicated, but some are not. And some dangers are profound and grave enough that putting a stop to them is infinitely more important than engaging in fun and triviality intellectual games that are at the core of Bolt's flips designed to show how serious and studious and intellectually dexterous he is at debating games only. Flipping is merely a form of deflection. People should rightly see this mere practised intellectually dexterity as hypocrisy or simply incoherence where Bolt's concerned.
Printer bans book against gay marriage
One might well ask why Bolt supported the banning of Muslim speakers at the Festival of Dangerous ideas in 2015? Did he defend their right to speak not for a moment. In fact he approved of the decision to drop them from the event. So the management had the right to choose. Bolt fully supports private enterprise making these free choices except it appears only the choices he supports. However given 60% of Australians support same sex marriage there's bound to be legitimate reasons why those statistics are reflected in private company decisions as well.
Maybe Bolt could recommend the printers that printed his current books that are on the market. They don't seem to have any qualms about who their name is associated with or the issues concerned. Maybe the printers read Connor Court's book and consequently made their decision. So what we have here is merely a Bolt whinge that the decision made is not what he would have done. Well we all know that. Bolt's printers obviously didn't read his books. So what Bolt is actually doing is naming and shaming and judging the printers concerned not just as an individual with equal status to us all but as one who has the resources of News Corp available to him that's not opinion on an equal playing field that's the power of the press at work. It could be considered a free donation to the Connor Court movement against same sex marriage.
ABC's Muslim accused of protecting extremist
Priests doctors Shrinks and even journalists can keep their silence unless of course they were in East Germany then they were compelled to deliver any information otherwise considered private but not so Hanan Dover a clinical psychologist. Have we heard Bolt so excited before no! Bolt rarely if never raises the question of privacy because he in fact supports it after all he's a media man and protects his sources. However here he is acting like a Stasi agent demanding Dover be charged for not revealing information why? Simply because she's Muslim. Catholic pedophile priests fine journalists fine but here Bolt suddenly is the equivalent of the KGB demanding retribution for a psychologist being a psychologist attacked by him for being a Muslim.
Does Andrew Bolt attacks Waleed Aly with gusto why? Because he's Muslim of course. There is no end to the list of reasons why Bolt might attack Waleed so vigorously and so often but being Muslim is it. Does Aly attack Andrew Bolt and if so why? On odd occasions Waleed Aly has responded to Andrew Bolt's arguments he hasn't ever attacked Bolt for his weird and deranged Crusader mentality. If there was a legitimate reason for debate here it's certainly not coming from Bolt who is merely attacking the man and in this case woman.
Bolt the non tribalist fixes his sights on various people for no reason other than their faith in total contradiction to his individualism which would deem he tackle the argument at hand. It's interesting he doesn't do it to Ed Husic is it because Ed's an MP or is it because he's too European looking or maybe because his best friend is not only an MP but a Jew Josh Frydenberg. It's probably because Ed doesn't wear a hijab . Bolt would be somewhat damaged by that looking as if he was just attacking another well liked Aussie.
No let's attack Hanan Dover and call her out for being a homophobe. It's where Bolt's limited intellect stands out and apart from rational analysis and belief. Dover points out that as in Christian and Jewish doctrine Homosexuality is considered haram wrong and sinful. That's in all three of the Abrahamic religions. Having said that Bolt a proclaimed agnostic simply attacks Dover for little more than being a Muslim and suggesting she is a homophobe. Bolt failed University because he obviously couldn't distinguish between an analysis of beliefs and the beliefs of his own but he clearly shows it here.
His failure to get a passing grade at uni resulted in him leaving much to our misfortune. We don't know whether or not he complained about his lecturers back then or about the university itself. But here he takes the opportunity to complain about both Dover and the state run ABC. The same ABC that allowed him his voice because he claimed yesterday he was the brightest voice among conservatives. If one notices there is a lot of stupidity going on here and it's not on the part of the ABC but it's very much on the part of Andrew Bolt whose claiming to be the victim of the state broadcaster. Universities public bodies too are state run organizations. None are just public institutions. Everything that we the public finance is in Bolt's mind state controlled and ergo Socialist. Poor man can't picture a place on the planet that isn't state run then except the Monarchist countries of the Middle East and Brunei. They have private owners. However Bolt he hates their Sharia systems more than he does the ABC. So Bolt just lives for complaint and victimhood
"Dover seems to have been granted a privileged access to the ABC's religion page to push her propaganda, so contrary to what I believe is healthy for our democracy and our freedoms."Bolt
" and I am just a useful scapegoat in this campaign." woe is me Bolt
"Why has the ABC allowed the ABC's religion department be hijacked like this?"
Here Bolt the advocate of free speech is really looking for the complaints Dept rather than addressing any arguments other than Muslims can't be rational because they are Muslims. Therefore Muslims are wrong and on and on. The circularity of Bolt's arguments has always been obvious but never enlightening and yes Muslims are the topic of the day and also pay taxes which gives them as much right as Bolt has to appear on the ABC
P.S One fact Bolt doesn't raise or address is why statistically more LGBTQIs are killed and harmed in countries claiming to be Christian?
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