Dnarever wrote on Oct 8th, 2024 at 6:37am:
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The left is virtually never extreme.
Looking at hatred even here and see where it comes from.
Find any I'm against someone topic and see who stands on the against them side? It's the right where extremism thrives.
Who continually takes the against side of:
Any topic about Muslims ?
Any topic about Homosexuals
Any Topic about Aboriginals
Any Topic about any race
Any Trans Topic. etc
Its always the supporters of the right. the same people over and over on every against people topic. It isn't just a coincidence. We recently had the Cronulla riots revived and surprise surprise surprise guess who was against the Lebanese. The exact same group of people who support the right and are all against every racial group every religious group not theirs every initiative that helps someone time after time after time, year after year.
You cannot come here to express how much you hate Muslims in the same breath that you are saying that the left are full of hate when there is years of clear evidence saying the exact opposite.
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This I will never forget: the murderers’ faces. They aren’t searching for soldiers. They are looking for babies and children. They cheer when they capture the old and weak. They gloat when they seize young women. And, most harrowing of all, they are laughing, laughing, laughing.
The Nazis hid their crimes. Hamas’s killers filmed theirs. For the first time in the history of mass murder, the murderers wanted their faces known, their deeds recorded.
Watching the videos, one after the other, is not only horrifying. It shattered my comforting illusions. Particularly this one. Drummed into me as a student, I repeated it on these pages immediately after October 7 last year.
Real evil, I said, dehumanises its victims: stripped of their humanity, they are no longer people. They are, to use Gloucester’s words in King Lear, as “flies to wanton boys”, to be slaughtered without sin or guilt.
Dehumanisation was, I believed, indispensable because, otherwise, who would commit such crimes? Who – beside a few sadists and lunatics – could do those things to other human beings?
Now I know that is an illusion. For the footage leaves it beyond doubt: the killers don’t just realise their victims are human beings; they relish it. They relish the all too human fear, the pain, the shame at pleading desperately for mercy for oneself and one’s children. And it is precisely the fact they are torturing, hurting and humiliating real, living, human beings that fills the killers with glee.
Looking back, it is easy enough to see the illusion’s origins. Whatever it may claim, our age doesn’t believe in evil.
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[The Albo Gang thinks in platitudinous paradoxes,] “like the dreams of children and the fantasies of the feeble-minded”.
That, ever since October 7 last year, has been our government’s problem. Time and again, it says “Hamas must play no role in Gaza’s future governance”. But like the children who dream and the feeble-minded who fantasise, it has absolutely no way of achieving that objective – and it adamantly rejects Israel’s option of systematically “degrading and destroying” Hamas’s (and now Hezbollah’s) offensive capabilities, as was done with al-Qa’ida and Islamic State.
Perhaps there is another credible way of disabling a firmly entrenched, heavily armed and ruthlessly evil terrorist group that shelters behind hostages and human shields. If so, the government should spell it out. Instead, it has, as Winston Churchill said of Neville Chamberlain’s hapless cabinet, remained “trapped in paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent”.
Nor is that solely the case internationally. At home, it has stood by as attacks on Jews escalate to levels never seen in this country, shredding our much vaunted multiculturalism.
It is true that Australians have not always rapturously welcomed other ethnicities. But there has long been a qualified acceptance, an “indifference which is not apathy” that DH Lawrence portrayed as quintessentially, laconically, Australian. Now, openly exterminationist slogans are yelled out every day in our public places, and – stripping away feeble cover-ups – October 7 is celebrated as a triumph. Meanwhile, confusing handwaving with being even-handed, the government mouths platitudes that swirl helplessly in the wind.
It is, of course, hardly alone. With a handful of shining exceptions, much of the West is no better. Maybe we should thank Hamas for that: it has exposed the extent of the rot. And who knows, to expose the rot may open the road to addressing it.
Henry Ergas
