It is entirely possible to be supportive of a cause while being simultaneously critical of some of its methodologies. I think there are many reasonable people who are in precisely this position at the moment in regard to the Black Lives Matter campaign. On the one hand, we are appalled at ongoing instances of racism, …
Month: June 2020
In case you didn’t understand the meaning of my previous post … Like most reasonable people, I am outraged at the appallingly racist attitudes against people of colour that are still entrenched within western society. My previous post, however, was a piece of satire pointing out the ridiculous extrapolations that many “Black Lives Matter” campaigners …
I have a confession to make. I was once a hard-line protectionist, wanting our national borders to remain closed against the rising tide of ‘illegal’ refugees who were seeking to sneak into our beautiful country. As a conservative Australian, I was supportive of government policies that sought to lock up ‘boat people’ in off-shore detention …
Cancel Culture is the push to remove all traces of something or someone from society when what they stand for doesn’t conform to current ‘group think’. At a personal level, we rightly condemn bullying in all its forms – physical, verbal and cyber. But cancel culture has somehow slipped through the back door as a …