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Let's take a step back at least some 20 years. Andrew Bolt never talked of "mass" migration or that a migration intake of well under 1% was dangerous. Neither were less than 3% Muslims immigrants some 1.5% from the Middle East mainly women and children a threat Back then only boat people were the exaggerated politics of the day asylum seekers treated as "illegals". Africans amounted less than 1% of immigrants and in the main were Christians and as Bolt says today "rarely fit in well." Since Abbott Bolt has joined the conservative Cronulla white nationalist One Nation political chant of "get out your not wanted." Since then he's adamant that every Muslim was a potential terrorist threat or apologist and Africans were culturally ill-equipped to fit in well despite the fact they are mostly practising Christians which Bolt conveniently left out. He's well known to have said the same about the Lebanese half of whom were also Christian.
Bolt back then regularly pointed out the Welfare burden they posed the high degree of criminality even when 5th compared with other groups and with no explanation why. Bolt rarely and only reluctantly says anything positive about these people he mocks disparages calls them uneducated unemployed an unwanted welfare burden on the nation even when the majority are Australian citizens and born here just as he is. Bolt's been as racist as the modern neo Nazisthat have risen up globally and we allow him that space to sell hate in our MSM.
The fact remains not just many but the majority of these people fit in into the Australian landscape more productively with a better attitude than Andrew Bolt. They want to be here and are grateful for the opportunity. Andrew Bolt, however, doesn't and he doesn't hide that fact Australia isn't culturally what he wants it to be. Every day he does little more than complain about the country and city in which he lives regarded as one of the most livable cities in the world. Bolt sings the praises of Amsterdam where he dreams of living out his life. Melbourne and Victoria Bolt declares are too left-wing, Yet Amsterdam a city double the population is more Socialist by a country mile. Bolt claims Australia's cultural institutions have all been kidnapped and are run by left-wingers and even our current LNP government is too left of centre for him and not really representative of his Australia. However, The Socialist Democratic nation of the Netherlands is his retirement heaven. 50% of Amsterdam isn't Dutch-born and 33% isn't either Western or Christian. The city of 9 million is more multicultural than Melbourne. So just how hypocritical is this Andrew Bolt who paints a picture of Melbourne as Dante's Inferno a place to be terrified of.
Yes, immigration is dangerous it spawned Andrew Bolt whose mother he told us never fitted in here hated the place and Andrew Bolt reflects that sentiment daily. He doesn't holiday here. He doesn't want to be seen publicly and hides his family yet calls himself a model Australian. We wouldn't know what the Bolt model family that stays and plays together looks like. look like.
Bolt's purpose is to emphasise politics of cultural division in order to mask the actual economic and material divisions in which we actually operate divide and conquer has always been the basis of conservative control distraction, deflection and division the strategy with which to do it. Take the minimal statistically insignificant data broadcast it with alarmist urgency possible and News Corp provides the Goebellian business model PR organization, gun for hire to act for and on behalf of those interests for whom fear and division among the diverse Australian landscape serves their interest of maintaining economic privilege and restraining progress. Now that is dangerous.
The clearest vision of this reactionary government was seen in Tony Abbott's LNP where compromise meant a nope nope nope and the least number of bills passed in some 70 years. So much so even his own conservative party couldn't abide by his autocratic do nothing rule and Bolt was there to support it. Even today have we seen Bolt discuss corporate crime? Has he mentioned the swathe of fraudulent underpayment by business or even discussed the non-payment of workers superannuation by employers? Bolt's facts are so cherry-picked his generalisations drawn from what statisticians regard as insignificant that he does more harm to this country and is IPA inspired more dangerous than any group he deems terrorist. Yes, all to distract, distort, deflect for minority interest.
Here is an indication of just how reactionary and unreasoned Andrew Bolt is populism has taken the reins
Mass Underpayment of workers is more dangerous. BCA needs Mass Immigration and a continuous flow of uninformed workers (ODT)
Australia Institute finds employers get six hours’ free work a week from each employee, while thousands are underemployed
That is if anti-immigrant policies don’t stop civic engagement in its tracks.
This advice is the most vital for Australian Democracy just as much (ODT)
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