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QandA's virtues and vices, and the self-censoring of the left : Comments

By Tristan Ewins, published 7/9/2015

The tighter we limit free speech the more likely it is that our enemies will apply those standards to us as well one day.

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"Remind him that progressive viewpoints are systematically excluded in so much of the monopoly mass media – and especially the Murdoch Press which dominates the highly-influential tabloid market."

Well, you do have Fairfax and The Guardian. But more importantly, "progressives" have almost the entire education system - paid for by the tax payer.
Posted by Aristocrat, Monday, 7 September 2015 7:27:35 AM
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So the other side got a say for once on the ABC and this guy is complaining. The reason why truly radical viewpoints and solutions proposed by the likes of Naomi Klein don't get much air time is simply because they are so radical, and impossible to implement. Mainstream outlets might give her some air time as a 'name' and for entertainment value - "look what this loony says" - and then move on.
Posted by Curmudgeon, Monday, 7 September 2015 9:59:56 AM
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The priorities of the 'Progressive' Leftists, it is as though those 'Struggle Streets' don't exist.

The Socialist Left of the Australian Labor Party have considerable gall to bemoan claimed 'self-censorship of the left' when they conducted a relentless campaign against Mark Latham, succeeding in having his column removed from the AFR.

While he was always irascible and blunt (as if that should bother the leftists!), Latham's arrows found their mark square in the bulls eye on the departures from traditional Labor values and concerns wrought by the trendy 'Progressives'. Latham held a mirror up to the cynical self-serving lies and hypocrisy of the educated middle class feminists, the fat tail that swings Labor. He had to go!

Just one of Latham's 'sins' for which he had to be kneecapped (a popular word with the Left),

<Former Labor leader Mark Latham slams Labor over gay marriage

FORMER Labor leader Mark Latham has slammed his party’s “obsession” with gay marriage saying it should focus on the nation’s “Struggle Streets” instead.

He told 3AW radio Bill Shorten’s private members bill to push for changes to the marriage act to allow same-sex couples to tie the knot, to be introduced into parliament on Monday, was nothing more than a symbolic gesture.

He said the biggest social issue facing Austalia was unemployment, drug use and homelessness in suburbs such as Mt Druitt which was the focus of the SBS documentary, Struggle Street.

“If you are interested in equality and social justice in Australia then what was the really big event in the month of May,” he said. “We had the Struggle Street documentary which revealed that in the nation’s public housing estate, most notably in Mt Druit people live in conditions that you wouldn’t wish upon your dogs. Absolute chaos, despair and hopelessness in their lives.

“And surely, you would have expected a serious national response from the party of social justice?

“We didn’t hear anything.

“They’re obsessed, instead, by gay marriage.”>

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/gay-marriage/former-labor-leader-mark-latham-slams-labor-over-gay-marriage/story-fnizhakg-1227371979220
Posted by onthebeach, Monday, 7 September 2015 10:12:05 AM
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The self-censoring of the opportunist pseudo-left - now, there's an oxymoron.

I anticipate a story in the N.T. News about box-jellyfish stinging a US marine off Mindil Beach, thereby proving that box-jellyfish are anti-American, and triggering a stampede by the pseudo-Left for the beaches of Darwin, to cuddle up to their new besties.

And forgetting the obvious that 'the enemy of my enemy may well be my worse enemy'. 'And that there may be worse still'.

No, they won't get that. Sorry for wasting your time :(

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Monday, 7 September 2015 10:21:40 AM
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Anyone who thinks the ABC is "slanting to the right" is mentally defective.
Posted by ttbn, Monday, 7 September 2015 10:25:01 AM
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On 7:30 Report, especially with Chris Uhlmann ; Leigh Sales gave the Libs a relatively easy ride ; At the Drum there is a constant flow of representatives from the CIS and so on. Not that there isn't splace for CIS spokespeople in a pluralist public sphere. But it seems disproportionate. And as I said - there are relatively radical participants at QandA who seem to have a tendency to 'tone it down' perhaps because the ABC is under pressure here. Also the opinions the Libs usually object to so loudly are 'mainstream left-of-centre' views as opposed to 'straight left' views which rarely get a hearing. And yes Tony Jones looked very uncomfortable when Naomi Klein was speaking....
Posted by Tristan Ewins, Monday, 7 September 2015 10:31:31 AM
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