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Team Australia: from bad fashion to bad politics : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 1/9/2014

Like any term drawn out of some faux nationalism (can there be any other?), it divides on the pretext of uniting.

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Binoy Kampmak's list of achievements sounds like he could be my boss. Loaded with certificates but the Tare weight is almost zero because of the lack of sense & pragmatism.
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 6:41:38 AM
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Excellent, individual...we can always depend on you to fill at least one sophisticated post a day referring to anyone you don't approve of as "morons".

(Binoy escaped fairly unscathed - merely being chided for his "lack of sense & pragmatism")
Posted by Poirot, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 7:54:09 AM
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Poirot,
You're making yourself feel targetted, don't blame me !
Posted by individual, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 8:22:28 AM
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What value systems Squeers? The one that allows freedom of religion and equality before the law. The one that doesn't allow mutilation of little girls. The one that makes underage marriage illegal. The one that provides universal health care for all citizens, also welfare for the same. The one that provides free education for all and doesn't discriminate in favour of males. I could go on, but you are being deliberately obtuse and my time is too precious to waste any more on you.
Posted by Big Nana, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 8:56:02 AM
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Big nana. These are all fine ideals and in some cases protections, though often observed in the breach or corrupted by harsher realities to do with the almighty $. But even these aren't 'values' which hold us together. Clearly you're setting up us against them. The problem is in demonising the other we whitewash our own failings. That's also the trouble with patriotism/nationalism, its a unilateral mindset incapable of critical reflection. It's not left against right but thinking against reaction. The joke is on the xenophobes as abbott is exploiting fear for political purposes. He's making fear tangible.
Posted by Squeers, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 10:12:04 AM
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In answer to the nazi innuendos trotted out above. It was just this same fear and hatred Hitler whipped, very much a conservative political tactic with a bipartisan following.
Posted by Squeers, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 10:16:27 AM
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