mothra wrote on Dec 14
th, 2024 at 9:23am:
Frank wrote on Dec 14
th, 2024 at 9:19am:
Gathering under three flags - uniting.
One flag - divisive.
The upside down world of pwogwessive identity politics.
Behold! The reasoning of the utterly simple minded.
Flying Indigenous flags alongside the standard is a relatively recent feature in Australian politics. It has been in vogue with the left for some years but was given the government imprimatur with the rise of the Albanese government and has been embraced by all federal agencies.
No one was consulted, it just came to be. It was well intentioned and marketed as a sign that Labor is more inclusive than the Coalition. But to embrace the idea you have to clear a pretty big logical hurdle: that three flags are more unifying than one.
The imposition of multiple flags, without consent, is a good example of the garbled ideological mission creep of alt-morality and the gaslighting of any dissent.
Retooling the existing order always follows the same pattern. An idea is imposed and declared normal. Anyone who dares object is decried by wowsers as waging a culture war, when all they are doing is erecting defensive barricades....
This is unlikely to be a big issue at the next election but symbols are important. If Dutton makes this part of his campaign it will be the first time the Australian people have been asked to make a choice about what symbols they want to represent them. We call this democracy.
Wowsers don’t really like democracy because their ideas don’t fly so well with the mob. That is because alt-morality is philosophical smoke; drifting, intangible and often nonsensical. The list of contradictions and idiocies at their core is long. What follows is a work in progress. Feel free to add to it.
In alt-morality race is intersectional, but white is irredeemable; privilege is permanent, but biology is optional; tradition is tyranny, but dogma is freedom; progress demands tolerance, but not for dissent; fitness is fatphobic; beauty is ugly; speech is violence, but silence is complicity, and; expression is free, as long as you agree.
Wowsers also have a long list of grievances with education.
Maths is racist; English is colonial; engineering perpetuates patriarchy; architecture enforces inequality; science is oppression; economics reinforces capitalism; astronomy is Western cosmology, and; law is injustice.
Chris Uhlmann, (another utterly simple mind, compared to alt-morality wowsers like Mothra)