Although an incident that indicates girls/women at the hard left end may not want equality in reverse is when some of Conor's friends on a BB online talked about how they (or they and their daughters) put their infant sons in baby dresses and took photos/video, knowing perfectly well their son/brother would feel emasculated and humiliated once he was old enough - and they did it anyway. These kinds of little things have been going on for decades so It's not surprising that Amy over at feminist dot com said "I actually think that feminism's goal is to liberate boys as much as it is to liberate girls, but I think that we have had to work with girls first - or at least they've been an easier target". (https://www.feminist.com/askamy/
Although it is needless to have to write this, an *unsigned* open letter is reprehensible and born out of pure cowardice and fear. Also typical of the hypocrisy of many of those who are well to the left given that they criticise the same sort of shit when pulled by those loonies of the right.
Yes, UN conventions exist, and Australia has signed them. They are therefore part of Australian law. But they do not contain anything which (a) requires Australia to admit any person to its territory (b) requires Australia to accept any person's claim to be a refugee, or (c) prevents Australia detaining and/or removing persons who are in Australia or Australian waters without authorisation. If they did contain such provisions, Australia would never have ratified them. And if they did, someone would have successfully litigated them.
Again, Conor and herr friends are not norrmal people. activists and intellectuals are not ordinary people.. The "Guardian" reader/Greens response "If you 'don't know, FIND OUT!" was considered yet another insult of the average Australian as 'stupid', this time for not knowing the facts "instantly" like their "betters".
*No one* is objective about *themselves* - look at memoirs to see that. Real people adjust events and facts to push others down and make themselves and their group look better.
If you are well to the left or well to the right of the average vote - no matter how mainstream you think you are - you are on the fringe in reality.
To use the topic covered here, think of Liz Conor on one side and Keith Windschuttle at the other extreme.
Don't tell me your mother was a boilermaker. Regardless of class background, if you went to university, hold a white-collar job and live in an affluent suburb, you are part of the elite. Most of our political discourse is between factions of this elite.
Ordinary Australians who mow the law and watch the footy each week don't do this.
White non-elite Australian voters (not elite people like Conor and her activist friends (the left/Greens elite are them - someone who went to uni, holds white collar jobs and live in good 'burbs) who seem to think John Howard - the son of a petrol station owner and pretty much a bog standard "Fountain Gate" small business owner-pitching Liberal - is some sort of reactionary, let alone a fascist (hint for slow learners: he's merely a product of the post war Sydney middle class)) know when they are being patronised, looked down on or called bogans. They react badly against being lectured by academics, celebrities and Guardian columnists. Support for Yes dropped sharply through the campaign, and it was the No campaign's successful appeal to anti-elite sentiment that caused that.
We in the ALP right (including Gough Whitlam of the NSW right) learned to listen to what Australian voters were saying and thinking. You and your pals in the Left never did. "Our rights should not be up for a public vote!" has been heard in this campaign like one of those dolls that says "Ma-ma" when you pull a string from your co-ideologues even though a vote is the only way the constitution can be changed.
Although an incident that indicates girls/women at the hard left end may not want equality in reverse is when some of Conor's friends on a BB online talked about how they (or they and their daughters) put their infant sons in baby dresses and took photos/video, knowing perfectly well their son/brother would feel emasculated and humiliated once he was old enough - and they did it anyway. These kinds of little things have been going on for decades so It's not surprising that Amy over at feminist dot com said "I actually think that feminism's goal is to liberate boys as much as it is to liberate girls, but I think that we have had to work with girls first - or at least they've been an easier target". (https://www.feminist.com/askamy/
Although it is needless to have to write this, an *unsigned* open letter is reprehensible and born out of pure cowardice and fear. Also typical of the hypocrisy of many of those who are well to the left given that they criticise the same sort of shit when pulled by those loonies of the right.
Yes, UN conventions exist, and Australia has signed them. They are therefore part of Australian law. But they do not contain anything which (a) requires Australia to admit any person to its territory (b) requires Australia to accept any person's claim to be a refugee, or (c) prevents Australia detaining and/or removing persons who are in Australia or Australian waters without authorisation. If they did contain such provisions, Australia would never have ratified them. And if they did, someone would have successfully litigated them.
Again, Conor and herr friends are not norrmal people. activists and intellectuals are not ordinary people.. The "Guardian" reader/Greens response "If you 'don't know, FIND OUT!" was considered yet another insult of the average Australian as 'stupid', this time for not knowing the facts "instantly" like their "betters".
*No one* is objective about *themselves* - look at memoirs to see that. Real people adjust events and facts to push others down and make themselves and their group look better.
If you are well to the left or well to the right of the average vote - no matter how mainstream you think you are - you are on the fringe in reality.
To use the topic covered here, think of Liz Conor on one side and Keith Windschuttle at the other extreme.
Don't tell me your mother was a boilermaker. Regardless of class background, if you went to university, hold a white-collar job and live in an affluent suburb, you are part of the elite. Most of our political discourse is between factions of this elite.
Ordinary Australians who mow the law and watch the footy each week don't do this.
White non-elite Australian voters (not elite people like Conor and her activist friends (the left/Greens elite are them - someone who went to uni, holds white collar jobs and live in good 'burbs) who seem to think John Howard - the son of a petrol station owner and pretty much a bog standard "Fountain Gate" small business owner-pitching Liberal - is some sort of reactionary, let alone a fascist (hint for slow learners: he's merely a product of the post war Sydney middle class)) know when they are being patronised, looked down on or called bogans. They react badly against being lectured by academics, celebrities and Guardian columnists. Support for Yes dropped sharply through the campaign, and it was the No campaign's successful appeal to anti-elite sentiment that caused that.
We in the ALP right (including Gough Whitlam of the NSW right) learned to listen to what Australian voters were saying and thinking. You and your pals in the Left never did. "Our rights should not be up for a public vote!" has been heard in this campaign like one of those dolls that says "Ma-ma" when you pull a string from your co-ideologues even though a vote is the only way the constitution can be changed.
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