the most amusing aspect of the Left's finger pointing at the concept that "people have a right to be bigots" is that it never occurs to them that they could be considered bigots too. To lefties, "bigot" means a right winger who's views they find objectionable. It never enters their tiny minds that left wing people could be bigots themselves. To Lefties, 'progressives" are the opposite of "bigots". "Progressives" are the keepers of the gate for all that is good and holy. "Progressives" are the educated deep thinkers who know better than anybody else how everything should be done.

Which is a bigoted attitude.

Good to see the govt cut funding to the Refugee Council--hurray about bloody time!

Now, let's go further and cut all funding to those other advocacy hotbeds the ABC and SBS. In a number of ways SBS is even more scurrilous than the ABC.

As I posted in another discussion, section 18c has been employed by aggrieved minorities and the multicultural movement to gag their opponents as part of their implicit ethnic warfare campaign against the Anglo-Celtic Australian majority. It is clearly a threat to free speech in this country.

To quote academic Frank Salter:

"To its supporters section 18C has emotional significance because it is the mechanism by which future enemies can be given the Bolt treatment. The section is a valued weapon in the armoury used by the multicultural “discourse police”, to use Betts’s phrase. That is why Greens spokeswoman Penny Wright saw Government draft legislation to change 18C as “the Andrew Bolt protection bill”. Multiculturalism has always been hostile towards Australia core Anglo identity. In practise the movement has been predicated on intolerance and intimidation directed at silencing critics, so it is understandable that minority activists are wedded to section 18C."

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/03/section-18c-multiculturalism-power/