How 'Dark Emu' upset the Right-wing media
Bruce Pascoe actually wrote a book something Andrew Bolt has never done but he'll say he has that cobbling collections of his columns makes him an author. (ODT)THANKS, ANDREW. Because you made a fuss, I read the book and I learned something valuable.
I learned that recalcitrant racists will do and say anything to discredit any view of Australian history in which Aboriginal people are not desperate, hapless and hopeless savages who’ve been “saved” by the benign and well-meaning intervention of white colonialism.
I hope that Bolt continues whining because ‘Dark Emu’ by Bruce Pascoe deserves a wide audience. It will be interesting to see how many Federal MPs and senators join the newly inaugurated Parliamentary Book Club which has chosen ‘Dark Emu’ as its first topic book. It’s already sold well over 100,000 copies which is extraordinary for a non-fiction book from a small publisher.
Pascoe’s greatest crime – according to Bolt – is that he is “anti-white”:
He relies ultimately on a view that if Pascoe is not Indigenous, then his views about Aboriginal history, agriculture and animal husbandry can be dismissed.
Secondly, the doubters argue, if Pascoe has consistently lied about his Aboriginal heritage then he is also lying about the research and conclusions in ‘Dark Emu’.
Of course, for Andrew Bolt, the detective work done by the people behind Dark Emu Exposed and The Truth Matters is like gold. He shamelessly and uncritically hoovers it up and regurgitates it in his poisonous columns for the Herald Sun.
Pascoe has always acknowledged that the history of his family has been difficult to fully piece together and that his Aboriginal ancestry is more than three generations away from today. Richard Guilliatt’s profile piece was written in May 2019, but it’s clear that Bruce Pascoe has been on Bolt’s attack radar for a long time.
Bolt first sneered at Bruce Pascoe’s claims of Aboriginal heritage in 2012, well before ‘Dark Emu’ was published. Since then, he has shamelessly leveraged the work of other people in mounting his attacks on Pascoe and his work.
What’s mildly amusing in all of this is that Bolt has probably never read ‘Dark Emu’ .
He’s been asked several times, most recently by Rick Morton writing in The Saturday Paper and each time he’s refused to directly answer:
However, I think ‘Dark Emu’ is an important book because it forces us to look at Australian history with fresh eyes that are not half-closed by the inherent bias that white history brings to our past. It also confronts us with ideas about Australia’s future transformation in the wake of climate change. That scares the denialists even more.
KK Klaner Andrew Bolt denies the AFP has "cleared" Bruce Pascoe of wrongdoing because they "dropped" the investigation and said there is no case to be heard. Remember how Bolt screamed when he was found guilty of racial vilification sloppy journalism and his intentional use of false facts. Bolt's a Murdochian, a purveyor of false facts for money. It's their culture here the US and the UK. Well, he's accusing the SMH and other Mainstream media of the same Fake News claiming that the AFP in "dropping" the investigation into Pascoe hasn't "cleared" him. One might ask why? Bolt is merely sensationalising Bruce Pascoe using him for the sake of his job and money for Murdoch. But is Bolt's seeming hate of Indigenous Culture only a pragmatic choice for this untalented hack's career path or does White History miswritten mean that much to a man who appears to loathe this country so much? Let's face it the British abhorred the Dutch for hundreds of years. Bolt dislikes Australia so much he shuns has Dutch dogs grows tulips doesn't holiday here and has sent his daughter away to be schooled. He openly dreams of retirement living, elsewhere.
As far as Bolt is concerned a Colonial culture, with an Inglorious history and is now trying to destroy the planet at an accelerated rate stands head and shoulders over one dubbed by him to have run its use-by date of 60,000 years. He labels Aborigines failures for "choosing" not to integrate but rather taint his.
Bruce Pascoe no matter his origins identifies as an Aboriginal Australian. We'd all would be better off doing the same instead of trying to bury that history in a fake Colonial Terra Nullius celebration that's a proven lie. But then Bolt identifies as Dutch who attempted to hide their WW2 truth for over 40 years until Israel shone a light on it. Bolt never talks about that part of his less than proud heritage. He's practised burying his truth but active in revealing others. We'd be better off blaming the Colonial Ceasar rather than praising his Colonial invasion that has led us to this shameful point of being the world's leading emitters of destruction X10. A reality Bolt in trying to impress so manically denies.
Mordecai Bromberg was right to have found him guilty and Bolt wrong in his efforts to erase truth and deny it.(ODT)
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