Frank, BH listens to the WOKE Socialists but doesn't really understand what he is hearing.

His reasoning ability is pretty limited and that is why he can't argue his way out of a wet paper bag. But instead he resorts to silly circular arguing tactics often used by Greeny types. He is technically and scientifically agnostic and wouldn't know a timing chain from a spark plug.

The FABIAN Socialists starting with that dope Whitlam and continued with gusto by the appalling Gillard the Witch from Wales have long cherished the notion of dumbing down Australians so they would be easy to fool and con to get them to vote for the idiotic WOKE Socialism rubbish.

Today the mental rot extends all the way to the universities.



The effective dumbing down of a generation
AMM 25.08.20. 



Once-upon-a-time school students were taught how to think. Today they are taught what to think.

This is why society has so many dimwits in every sphere, especially in our institutes of learning—including, as we are fast learning—politics!

Timing is everything, and so it is with the onset of COVID-19 and the culmination of the long march through the institutions.

This march has taken a while, led by the universities veering to the left and inculcating students on the full agenda of woke topics – the evils of capitalism, colonialism, racism, women’s rights, inequality, diversity, multi-culturalism, globalism, intersec-tionality, climate change etc.



This season’s bumper crop from Left’s Long March
Source: Judith Sloan, News Corp

It’s not just humanities and law students who’ve been subject to this politically correct thinking. Courses ranging from medicine to science, from engineering to business include large dollops of woke material, strange as this might seem.
As graduates fanned out into the public service and teaching, the pace of the march quickened – any workers holding different views from the full woke complement were effectively silenced lest their careers be endangered.

At a time when we need our public institutions at the top of their game and for people to have confidence in them, their activities and the expressed opinions of their leaders too often work against their original objectives.

Rather than perform their roles quietly and efficiently, most taxpayer-funded institutions are off on self-directed frolics based on the on-trend progressive fads.

Look at Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, Dr Brett Sutton. As COVID-19 struck, he was busy putting the finishing touches on a paper about climate change and public hospitals. As the virus spread, his deputy, Dr Annaliese Van Diemen, using Twitter, likened COVID-19 to the arrival of Captain James Cook. (Perhaps she meant Governor Arthur Phillip – history is not one of her strengths.)

Generally, chief health officers positions – often political appointments – were never taken seriously by the medical profession. While public health can be a fairly dreary pursuit, with preventive measures necessary but sometimes costly, it is a crucial activity for the public sector.

But lured by trendy and worthy-sounding alternative endeavours, state health departments ended up underinvesting in public health and pandemic preparation, with Victoria leading the pack of neglectful bureaucrats. Now we are expected to hang on their every word and the punitive directions they issue almost daily.

Of course, the long march through the institutions doesn’t end with state health departments. There is nary a part of the state or federal public services not infected by the rise of politically correct thinking and distracted from the pursuit of the rightful objectives.

Take the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A glance at its top-heavy organisational structure is terrifying. There is the Sustainability and Climate Change branch and the Human Rights and Social Inclusion branch. We even have an Ambassador for Gender Equality and, of course, a Gender Equality Branch. Evidently, people smuggling and human trafficking also need their own ambassador.

Most people would be able to remove about two-thirds of the activities of DFAT and conclude the country would be better off saving the cost of those highly paid officials as well as discarding all that pointless meddling.

It’s hardly necessary to mention the Australian Human Rights Commission here. What started off as a modest venture to offer some remediation for tightly defined violations of human rights – the states already had their own machinery – it has ended up as a vehicle for grandstanding presidents and commissioners pursuing personal agendas.

Then there is the ABC which is wall-to-wall woke with the possible exception of regional radio.

The Bureau of Meteorology should be a dull agency undertaking the useful task of predicting the weather, short-term and slightly longer-term. There were jokes about the inaccuracy of its forecasts but most people held BOM to be reasonably trustworthy.

Climate change has completely altered its activities. The agency regularly makes grand statements about this day or month or year being the hottest on record without revealing the true adjustments it makes to these claims. The BOM wants to be a player in the climate change debate, underpinning its demand for more resources.

Even organisations that should be regarded as undertaking boring, utilitarian roles have lost the plot. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority – doing a very bad job regulating superannuation – insists climate change be taken into account by the companies it regulates.

Read on to learn how dangerous these WOKE Socialists really are

[url]https://morningmail.org/the-effective-dumbing-down-of-a-generation/#more-1

There are references to “sexual violence, rape and infant mortality”, undergraduates are counselled. Students who feel upset are advised to “leave the classroom and contact wellbeing” if they are distressed. Wellbeing? What fresh hell?

The truth is that trigger warnings – a lazy idea, largely imported from American campuses – are an embarrassing offshoot of the therapising of everyday life.