Another day, another awful op-ed in Murdoch rag The Daily Telegraph. Veterans of the australia-nz-pacific channel on the Discord may remember this guy as the one who thought Bari Weiss resigning from the NYT was literally 1984.
Some choice transcripts:
"[T]his newspaper reported that the new wave of "cancel culture" was threatening the very social fabric of this country." - Yeah, good, OK.
"[T]he global Black Lives Matter movement destroying statues and rewriting history, academics denouncing Western civilisation and removing whiteness from the curriculum, indoctrinating school students with LGBTIQ+ gender fluidity programs and deplatforming and flaming on social media any who fail to conform." - Is any of this a bad thing? Also, once again, I love how one of the worst things they can imagine happening to themselves is being attacked on social media.
"In schools students are taught radical, neo-Marxist inspired gender and sexuality theory based on the assumption boys can be girls and girls can be boys as, instead of biology, a person's gender and sexuality are dynamic and limitless." - Ignoring the bullshit phrase 'neo-Marxist', once again, is any of this wrong or a bad thing?
"When teaching the Australian national curriculum teachers are told "Indigenous history, culture, knowledge and understanding can be incorporated into teaching core scientific concepts" on the basis teachers need to "provide a more culturally responsive curriculum". Central to Western science, as opposed to superstition and witchcraft, is a commitment to rationality and reason" - Seriously fuck this guy, completely normal and not at all racist to say that Indigenous knowledge and culture is 'superstition and witchcraft'. Absolutely infuriating.
Anyway, I wasn't expecting this article to be the place to introduce Gramsci's Prison Notebooks to the Australian public, and yet here we are.
(again, this may be better on The Dunk Tank, but I would also love a community dedicated to posting awful articles like this)
Catholic
Pedophile fascist death cult is mad about cancel culture.
instead of biology, a person’s gender and sexuality are dynamic and limitless.”
This part is wrong because biology textbooks don't have a rigid definition of gender (it might have one for sex? It gets fun with things like androgen insensitivity). Nor would a sociologist worth their salt impose a limit upon sexuality. Why the fuck would a professor or researcher try to do such a thing? What the fuck?
Right wingers tend to be willfully ignorant about gender and sex being two different things
I love how one of the worst things they can imagine happening to themselves is being attacked on social media.
Holy shit dude. You nailed it. My eyes are opened.
Meanwhile Black people, LGBTQ people, whoever else they hate, don't have rights because white people saye that their religion is more important.
Holy fuck. It's time to end cancel culture. And replace it with religious persecution. Fuck these people, fuck whites, fuck religion, I will leave the fight online and physically destroy everything they are in real life. What's it like to not have rights for once in your life, huh? God. I want to make them suffer.
thank you kevin donnelly for attaching your name in big writing so that I can find out your address and punch you in your sneering ugly white ass face
Yep, this is todays paper. It doesn't really surprise me that it's similar, its probably the exact same talking point. Yes, I'd love to see everybody with a column in the Tele get cancelled, it's just the same culture war crap day after day, absolutely no need for this to ever be published.
Imagining a world without Murdoch and it's just the Lionel Hutz world without lawyers
Dr Kevin Donnelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University and his most recent book is "How Political Correctness Is Still Destroying Australia"
lmao what a nerd
