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Australia's global 'exit': tribalism and international institutions : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 16/9/2016

Hanson and Roberts hail from a long line of populists suspicious of the 'international institution', which they regard as something of a meddling, threatening Frankenstein.

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The EU is crumbling. Brexit will not be the last exit. Let's hope the same thing happens to the United Nations.
Posted by ttbn, Saturday, 17 September 2016 2:16:18 PM
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To Thomas O'Reilly.

The bigotry you attributed toward white Christian Australians, in which you stereotyped them as "corrupt, untrustworthy, psychopathic, narcissistic" ..... "from dysfunctional families."

Hey Thomas, I am the racist around here, so I can make racist stereotypes about particular groups of people that I don't like. But you can't. If I had labelled negroes or Muslims "corrupt, untrustworthy, psychopathic, from dysfunctional families", I am certain that you would have instantly grasped my statement as racist. But reverse the accusation towards white Christians, and it flies right over your head.

It is just these sorts of leftist contradictions and double standards that I became aware of as a young man, which originally got me thinking straight. You claim that you are non racist, and then quite plainly make a racist statement about white Christian people. And when this fact is pointed out to you, you can't even see it. You are so used to making racist statements about the white Christian people that you so obviously despise, and you are so certain in your own mind that you are a morally superior anti racist, that you think it is perfectly normal to make a racist statement about white Christians.

Just for your own edification, psychologists have noted that some people exhibit inconsistencies of thoughts,which they are completely unaware of. You will be happy to know that your particular condition has a name for it. Psychologists and psychiatrists call it "cognitive dissonance." Orwell called it "double think."

Now, you can discreetly visit a psychiatrist, and he or she should be able to help you. Or, you can do it yourself. Go into a dark corner and just keep thinking, that if it is racism to label coloured people with negative stereotypes, it is also racist to label white people the same way.

You can do it, Thomas. If you are intelligent enough to grasp these leftist inconsistencies which you have unthinkingly inculcated into your head, you might start thinking straight yet.
Posted by LEGO, Saturday, 17 September 2016 2:47:02 PM
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Be careful Thomas, I'm beginning to like you and your return fire posts!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Saturday, 17 September 2016 3:25:11 PM
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I'll bet he doesn't "return fire" on my last one to him, Alan B. He just dropped a giant clanger, and he knows it.

That's the problem with thinking that you are better than the working class, and being a finger wagging, evangelical moral puritan. You have to live up to the moral declarations that you demand that the lowly bogans, rednecks, and "deplorables" live up to.

Always taking the high moral ground can make you a great target.

My favourite hobby is deprogramming arrogant young (and dumb) trendy lefties, and Tommy now has a giant problem. I am going to cut and paste his racist statement about white Christian people in my "clangers" file, and every time Tommy sneers at us racists and "Islamophobes", you can bet I am going to throw his statement right back in his face.

By forcing naïve young lefties to confront the contractions and double standards of their leftist thinking, is one of the best ways to deprogram them.
Posted by LEGO, Sunday, 18 September 2016 6:56:14 AM
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Hey Alan B.
"Be careful Thomas, I'm beginning to like you and your return fire posts!"

I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Sunday, 18 September 2016 7:25:49 AM
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"confirmation bias
noun

the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories."
Posted by Craig Minns, Sunday, 18 September 2016 7:42:01 AM
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