THE BETRAYAL AND ASSASSINATION OF ROGER SCRUTON
An important piece from Douglas Murray: "The hit job on Sir Roger [Scuton] can be seen as a classic of the genre: he was sacked within five hours of the Twitter storm breaking. His fate offers a perfect case study in the art of modern character assassination. Except that in this instance, it unravelled." Note the cowardice of the May Government.
Their instincts are right. Our world is replete with complex matters that need discussing. We need philosophers, thinkers and even politicians of courage to help us find our way through this. We live in the age of character assassination. What we now desperately need is a counter-revolution based on the importance of individuals over mobs, the primacy of truth over offence, and the necessity of free-thought over this bland, dumb and ill-conceived uniformity.
Let us compare Bolt to what's being said here:
1) Ours is a complex and diverse nation, and we need the diversity of thought and ideas to find our way through it. Andrew Bolt, however, works for an organisation that eschews the variety of thinking not just in Australia but the English speaking world. He actually attacks Scientists Academics and the very institutions we have that encourage the difference of opinion. No safe schools or Institutions for Andrew Bolt.
2) We live in the age of character assassination. Yes, we do, and News Corp enables Andrew Bolt to do just that. He, along with his ilk, drove Yassmin Abdel-Magied out of the country a 28-year-old with more to offer Australia skill wise than Andrew Bolt ever has. She is far better educated than Bolt. An engineer, author Yassmin was more productive in her short years than Andrew Bolt has been over his entire 60 years, and she was a role model for young women today. Bolt along with his other media mates tore her down because she was, a woman, a Muslim, an African migrant who spoke up loudly. She spoke of a different truth often covered up and not allowed. She actually represented the real Australia unwanted by Bolsters.
3) Bolt talks of the importance of individuals but in fact denies their existence with his anti-multicultural stance with his insistence on Assimilation that breeds little more than a uniformity of thought the very opposite of multiculturalism. Schools need to be training grounds of single-minded thinking formatted like The Bolt Report unlike Q&A and The Drum speaking the language and ideas of a minority rather than providing a platform for the diverse and complex majority of individual Australians. Bolt prefers, no demands, a great colonial glorious myth to be made of our history rather than the truth and reality of an inglorious past. Because that truth just might be a driving force for change. He really does reveal his stupidity when he maintains he's and indigenous Australian more than Adam Goodes or Stan Grant.
4) Has anybody realised Bolt doesn't debate he preaches? He hides behind closed doors and doesn't invite debate the very opposite of the above statement. Andrew Bolt pretends he's an individual when he's very opposite the voice of a class to which he, in fact, doesn't belong just their well-paid lackey. A millionaire maybe but a tool nevertheless of billionaires who will be discarded for another tool for the job. Bolt is hoping no doubt that will be one of his sons. Nepotism isn't a world where you will find individuals and free thinkers is it? If Bolt really supported individual thinkers, he'd have helped Yassmin wouldn't he over say, George Pell? He'd be pleased to hear Waleed Aly's voice of reason rather than his emotional and irrational obsession to destroy him.
5) As for Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray' defence Twitter didn't sack Scruton the divided government did and which in the UK appears to be as divided as ours is here. However, the power of the modern outrage in Australia isn't to be found on Twitter. It's to be found in the pages of the Murdoch Media Sky News behemoth. The corporatisation of our news, information and opinions in the hands of so few players all fighting for the wealth profit and power in the hands of only 1% of Australians. Coupled with the single-minded effort to diminish the voice of the ABC our public broadcaster who today has been left operating of the same budget it had in 1984 cut by the LNP by $395 million in the past 5 years. In the course of events conservatives are very rarely the victims of a mob other than their own.
5) As for Roger Scruton and Douglas Murray' defence Twitter didn't sack Scruton the divided government did and which in the UK appears to be as divided as ours is here. However, the power of the modern outrage in Australia isn't to be found on Twitter. It's to be found in the pages of the Murdoch Media Sky News behemoth. The corporatisation of our news, information and opinions in the hands of so few players all fighting for the wealth profit and power in the hands of only 1% of Australians. Coupled with the single-minded effort to diminish the voice of the ABC our public broadcaster who today has been left operating of the same budget it had in 1984 cut by the LNP by $395 million in the past 5 years. In the course of events conservatives are very rarely the victims of a mob other than their own.
For Christ’s sake! Why do liberals get tongue-tied when discussing the world’s largest religion?
Sri Lanka is a country with no real history of Muslim-Christian tension. It is a country that has seen enormous bloodshed, but throughout its 25-year civil war, neither of these groups were the protagonists. As the violence flowed thickly between the Sinhalese Buddhist majority and the mostly Hindu Tamil minority, Muslims and Christians occupied a remarkably apolitical place.
It’s for this reason that the claims of Islamic State involvement are so believable. For all the limits to what we know about this attack, the element of foreign interference is the single idea that does make sense.
Waleed Aly
Did Andrew Bolt steal and plagiarise his editorial when he attacked the Greens Leader Robert di Natale after SriLanka? How stupid and petty is this and his effort to make political points? Christians or Muslims don't talk about themselves in 3rd person terms. Muslims offered their condolences to Christians publicly in Sri Lanka. Christians just offered their condolences publicly in Christchurch. But right-wing morons like Bolt want to create a divide where in Sri Lanka there was none until media like Sky News broadcast live the shooting in Christchurch to the world for 17 minutes before they were cut off. Now that's the way to stir things up are they the doppelganger of ISIS media trying to just that, to stir things up?Is Andrew Bolt their Australian voice? The voice of the extreme right-wing amplifying a division that wasn't really there? Is he a recruiter of violence not just Christian or Muslim he really doesn't seem to care as long as there is violence and extreme division somewhere between these two religions he will tell you about it. He's even been known to broadcast a call to fight and when authorities deny the issue is a religious one Bolt will insist the authorities are conspiratorial liars hiding the fact. When will he be charged? (ODT)Following Sri Lanka’s Easter tragedy, high-ranking Democrats engaged in a game of semantics gymnastics, dancing around the name of ‘Christians’. Republicans took it as proof of democratic enmity to Christianity.by Robert Bridge
He had a long beard, lost his sense of humour': Sri Lanka bomber left Australia a 'changed man'
What was News Corp's influence in the change? Was there a Sky after Dark,2GB, Andrew Bolt effect? They all preached Islamophobia HARD!!
TURNBULL WOULD HAVE BEEN TOAST. MORRISON GIVES HOPE
The first two weeks of the election campaign were just a rehearsal, given the interruptions of Easter and Anzac Day and the fact that voters weren't yet much engaged. But one thing is already clear: Scott Morrison is dragging the Liberals back into contention with an energy Malcolm Turnbull never had, and fighting on issues Turnbull couldn't.PAYWALL
Unable to find anything to specifically support the Liberals News Corp has to turn to bagging out someone who no longer has skin in the game. Malcolm Turnbull ordinary Australian citizen entitled to his opinion like any other. Is this the only means by which to make Ad-man Scott Morrison seem polished?The Party Morrison now calls United is made of names like Corman, Hunt, Dutton, Taylor a bunch ready to attack each other at the drop of a hat. Whereas the ALP having learnt from its past stand behind Shorten as a united front something the Herald Sun or any News Corp publication can't pretend doesn't exist. Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison now that was a disaster in the making. Does Australia want to return to that?
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