by FRED PAWLE – MULTICULTURALISM encourages dull people to exaggerate their self-importance and victimhood, as South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas is learning.
Life without multiculturalism would be “boring”, the Labor Premier told the fourth annual Multicultural Festival in Adelaide in November.
- Multiculturalism encourages people to isolate themselves into ethnic silos, and not seek common ground.
- It incentivises legally recognised – but flimsy – forms of victimhood…
- Not only through defamation laws but also through “hate speech” laws.
“The food would be all the same. If we walked down Rundle Street and went out for a feed, it would be all the same restaurants. I couldn’t think of anything worse.”
I can. And it’s not a street full of burger joints and fish & chip shops.
WOMAN
It’s being sued for defamation by a woman whose overinflated self-regard is fuelled by the very same “multiculturalism” of which Malinauskas is South Australia’s most enthusiastic advocate.
In a more homogenous society, differences of opinion are either brushed over civilly or settled in the pub car park – as gentlemen have done for centuries.
When there is a baseline of cultural commonality, arguments are usually short, and end with, at best, a rapprochement, or, at worst, an agreement to disagree.
Instead, we’re being compelled by someone with whom we share few values – nor worldly perceptions – to dissect the meaning of various supposedly offensive statements to a courtroom.
All the while barristers clock up a few hundred bucks an hour for raising objections and legal precedents.
I’d rather be force-fed pureed broccoli through a tube up my nose.
This is the rancorous world that Malinauskas both created and supposedly celebrates.
It was difficult not to savour the sweet taste of Schadenfreude when I read today that Randa Abdel-Fattah – the Hamas-loving pro-Palestine zealot whose cancellation from Adelaide Writers’ Week led first to a mass walkout by other writers and then the cancellation of the entire event itself – is threatening to sue Malinauskas for “making a vicious personal attack” against her.
Of course he did. The end product of multiculturalism, after everyone has tasted each other’s cuisine, is an increase in antipathy and misunderstanding between ethnic groups.
I won’t dissect what Malinauskas said – not for legal reasons, but because I don’t want to bore you to death – except to say that it was inevitable that Abdel-Fattah or someone like her would take offence at something said during this childishly exaggerated and intractable controversy.
Multiculturalism encourages people to isolate themselves in ethnic silos, and not seek common ground.
It also incentivises legally recognised but flimsy forms of victimhood, not only through defamation laws but also through “hate speech” laws, of which Australia now has one of the most complex, vague and comprehensive collections in the world.
One of the key aspects of defamation cases is to estimate just how much the defendant’s alleged insult has diminished the plaintiff’s reputation.
In the circles I move in, Abdel-Fattah’s reputation could hardly go any lower than it is already.
She spews contempt for the country we love, which has provided her with so much freedom and prosperity.
It would require something far more offensive than whatever Malinauskas said to reduce her in our estimation.
I do concede, though, that there are many people in Australia who see her as both a pitiful victim and an intellectual giant beyond reproach.
So, if her case ever gets to court, old mate Malinauskas might have a case to answer.
“The music would have no richness and colour,” he went on to tell the multicultural festival. “We are so lucky. We are so fortunate to be able to have this here,” he continued.
200 CREEDS
“Over 200 different cultures, languages, colours and creeds celebrated in our community – done with extraordinary peace and harmony.
“That is genuinely the envy of not just other parts around the country, but so many communities and corners of the globe.”
You can just picture the ethnically homogenous congregation outside, say, St Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest, Hungary, or a restaurant full of tenth-generation Italian fishermen in Sicily, Italy, gathering around to hear the latest developments in multiculturalism from South Australia.
They would be both perplexed and disappointed by the sudden unravelling of its “extraordinary peace and harmony” under Malinauskas’ watch.
It is ironic that Malinauskas’ federal Labor counterparts are resorting to even more laws to enforce the “peace and harmony” he claims are a natural consequence of multiculturalism.
The new laws the Federal Government rammed through parliament this week have less to do with trying to instil fairness or even equality among the citizenry than they do with legislatively separating us into white Christian oppressors and immigrant oppressed.
They will dramatically reduce our ability to discuss the sort of country we want Australia – one of the world’s longest-surviving democracies but paradoxically also one of the world’s youngest cultures — to be.
This is about as fundamental a restriction of free speech as you could imagine, which is exactly how Leftists like it.
The other hilariously significant outcome of the brouhaha over Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation from Adelaide Writers’ Week is that the event itself was cancelled.
So, a bunch of loud-mouth, overrated writers objected to one colleague’s cancellation, and now they too are cancelled.
That they consider this a victory worth celebrating tells you all you need to know about where this country is heading.PC
– Fred Pawle
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Diversity only works under the barrel of a gun and loss of fundamental human rights like free speech and individual freedoms as proven down under with increasingly severe punishment for ‘hate speech’ and any criticism of Islam or Zionism. Adding that to a Fascist corporatised Government you end up with totalitarianism.
We never asked for it and if you compare the before and after Oz we were an independent self reliant nation with a proud history of hardy endeavour and great achievements as a unified people. Now, a pale shadow of its former self, its social structures deteriorated and destroyed, its people all steadily being replaced at ever increasing numbers until who was really ‘Australian’ will be lost amongst the excess. It’s time to face the multicultural failure and cancel those 2.9m temporary visas not naturalise them as Burka intends to do to save labors skin in the ON showdown. Ozzies end is in sight and soon.
The word “multicultural” has falsely been used to justify undiscerning immigration of anyone and everyone. We are now reaping the foreseeable negatives of that word. Entrants to Australia can be multi-ethnic, but they must sign up to the basic tenets of our liberal democratic society. That set of cultural, legal and societal norms must form the solid core of entry to Australia. Multi-ethnic, but mono-cultural
No question David. Come to my house, my rules. No exceptions. Whitlam kicked it off and all successive govts have danced to its tune. Labor has found electoral favour in it. We are Judeo Christian in general legal and behavioral terms but I do not want a theocracy on any basis. At that point we/
I separate from Islamic teaching. We must return politically to Western Liberalism of the Menzian kind. I can tolerate and discuss, even welcome, civil disagreement but not under Big Govt and policies aimed to delete the middle class and trade our national identity.