WATCH: How section 18C is corrupting our legal rights

http://freedomwatch.ipa.org.au/tag/section-18c/

As West's recent article suggests, criticising any plan for the Chinese to buy our properties, land, farms, water rights, or ports is automatically branded "racist". Or "xenophobic". And so on.
Lazy thinklng.
So there is much to agree with.

PS
Perhaps the author needs to do a spell-check more carefully?

"Louis O'Neill is studing writing at Macquarie University. "

Can anyone see the fault here? I hope he's more careful when he submits his essays.

Political correctness is more about stifling free speech more than anything else.

Why do I say that?

Funny how there was a time when the word was 'educate" we need to educate people on ...xyz.' The fact that eduation has not been used a main means of controlling hate speech indicates that my claim has merit.

Everybody knows that legislation does not stop people thinking, all it does is suppress what people are thinking so hence another indicator.

Funny how no form of education has been used to try and control hate speech, only legislation has been tried. what does this tell us?

They think that by bringing in a law like 18c it can keep control
of the violence that can flair up between ethnic groups and build to
complete anarchy and civil war.

Well fancy that, if we'd had that law across history,it would
have stopped all the wars between ethnic groups.

Who knew it was that simple.

It wouldnt have worked then and it wont work now.

How desperately they try to control the Frankenstien monster of unrelated sections,
of this multiculturalism, they have stitched unseeingly,together,
Especially now it threatens to bite them on the bum in the form of terrorist attacks.

Its just a civil war waiting to happen in a few generations.

Political Correctness is a government tool, desperately used against us, in lieu of admitting that they were totally wrong in enforcing multiculturalism on us. They were stupid enough to actually believe they could force such divisive nonsense on us without us saying boo. They thought that we were stupid: not unusual thinking for Australian politicians about anyone except themselves.

Now, they have to attempt to frighten us into submitting to their stupid social experiments by restricting freedom of speech via legal means and threats. They are also poisoning the minds of pre-school toddlers right through to secondary school and university so that the poor little blighters don't know about other views, and what democracy and freedom to speak was.

I know some people think that Australia is still a democracy but, sorry folks, it is rapidly diminishing. Western politicians are gradually (belatedly) introducing us to "1984". They now expect life-long careers out of politics, and democracy is making it too damn hard for them. It has to go. And it will, unless the 'silent majority' start speaking up despite the threats and PC. Democracy can go far more quickly than it took our antecedents to gain it for us.

18c Hasn't prevented anyone from actually saying what they think, except when used to promote racial hatred or intended racially motivated insult!

Even so some folk will be offended, if you say, it's a nice day, how' it going? In order to be offended the offendee must first take offence!

In some cultures simply remarking to a workmate or colleague, your wife's quite a looker, can get your throat cut.

I remember a time when asking a foreign fisherman, who caught nothing for some days, try bait cobber. Saw him react, by trying to spear me in the eye with a rod, saying as he did so, shut up, deleted expletive English. Whereas, when I assured him that as an Australian of triple distilled Celtic origins, I had little to like the poms for, save our Westminster democracy, justice system, and equality before the law.

He calmed down, then tried to instruct me in the intricacies of fly fishing in broken english, which only confused me even more.

I see, I said, a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse, being none the wiser, but remained a sighted person for the disingenuous diplomacy.

Those who howl the loudest, I believe, are those who are burnt by satire or caps that fit! Which is the intention of satire or pictorial social commentary as demonstrated in the leaked leak cartoon? And travels well, given the unusually high percentage of African American boys, raised almost exclusively by their mums!
Alan B.