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The wrong kind of diversity : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 15/1/2020

If you have been watching TV lately, you will have noticed that many advertisements include at least one black or brown person.

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I mentioned this long ago, but nobody was interested. Perhaps more people than realised tune out during mindless, unrealistic TV commercials; or perhaps the average Australian has become so thick that they don't even notice this diversity brainwashing.

The latter is the more likely. Australians are getting thicker than ever, with mob-think or no-think being the default position.

Australia has become a race and colour obsessed country, full of self-hatred and cultural/racial relativity.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 9:01:28 AM
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If 60% of Australians want action on climate change then in a democracy is what we should have and just too easy if the nuclear option is chosen as CARBON FREE MSR thorium, which can also be used as a nuclear waste burner and using waste other folks will pay us annual billions to bury!

Couple this cheapest of all power generation costing probably less than a cent PWH, to deionisation dialysis desalination and we can go from turbocharged economic growth to turbocharged economic growth! As we drought-proof the nation!

Highways can be underlaid with a cling wrap thin layer of super-strong superconductor graphene to enable electric vehicles to be recharged! on the fly! And eliminate range as a limiting factor!

All our current energy sales and then some could be replaced and massively expanded if we reticulate electricity to ll our energy customers via undersea graphene cored cables! And our graphene highways could reticulate all our domestic energy to the end-user

There are no downsides here! All the prevents it is recalcitrant tin-ear pollies like yourself! And if the cap fits?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 15 January 2020 10:11:23 AM
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I don't know why this ex-politician has a problem with advertisers exercising their democratic right to have black and brown people in advertisers' commercials.

Does he suffer from residual South African rightwing, authoritarian, racism?
Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 10:50:30 AM
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"I don't know why this ex-politician has a problem with advertisers exercising their democratic right to have black and brown people in advertisers' commercials."

He is exercising his democratic right to express his problem with it. To find his problem, simply read the article.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 11:33:13 AM
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Does he suffer from residual South African rightwing, authoritarian, racism?
plantagenet,
where exactly is the article racist ?
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 11:40:14 AM
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Sticks and stones can break my bones, but what other people waste their time watching on their fool's mirror, will never harm me.

Those who seriously value and wish to advance their life, understand that the four aims of life can only be achieved by their own efforts, their own actions, rather than by passively sitting in front of a screen as couch-potatoes. Just as they consciously watch what kind of food and drink comes in their mouth, so also would they watch what kind of impressions and propaganda enter through their eyes and ears.

So let them who do not care about their lives and what junk goes into their brain, let them enjoy hearing their favourite views again and again. We have no right to interfere - even alcoholics have a right to their lifestyle.

The question being, how does the author know about the colour of the faces of actors that are involved in this kind of abuse?
Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 2:51:56 PM
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anything outside of the marxist groupthink pushes the racist, ignorant and gender response. Usually because they know they are wrong.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 2:56:57 PM
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"you will have noticed that many advertisements include at least one black or brown person."

Well that's not always true. If you watch the adverts concerning domestic violence you'll struggle to see anything other than a white face since, apparently, only white men are violent toward their women! At least in the woke world.
Posted by mhaze, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 3:07:54 PM
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Pick up any brochure anywhere depicting the 'Average Australian' and you'll get a Black man and an Asian woman.

This is based upon UN Sustainable Development Goals on 'equality and diversity' that drives the social narrative.

The bigger aim is to remove the traditional white Australians and their culture as the majority culture;
- So they empower minorities, and make the voice of combined minorities louder than the voice of the existing nationalist majority.

This is how global bureaucrats have taken away ownership of nations by the existing citizens, and placed it into their own hands.
Now we're all global renters.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 4:21:43 PM
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Oh yee of little faith.

Even Murdoch's son is now criticising the blinkered News Limited take on the fires http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51112322

OLO's rightwing majority will have to desperately seek a philosophy of life elsewhere - when Murdoch goes.

Meanwhile OLO's rightwing majority are lapping up an article by a failed politician who lost a court case launched by a fine woman.
Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 6:43:09 PM
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The LNP and their followers have the right solution. They are making Chinese the dominant race and culture of the future.
Posted by Mr Opinion, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 7:11:48 PM
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Yes, Mr Opinion and they are colour blind when it comes to taking money!

And when it comes to property sales they are all over them with effusive praise? And reserve the racist commentary when their backs are turned and they out of earshot.

And here safely hidden behind this or that non deplume!

We forget when we came here this land was owned by black races, ditto South Africa! And India was owned by a brown race as was pre European America!

I don't think therefore any of us should have a problem with a few well-tanned faces appearing in commercials. If you don't like it? Don't 'buy the advertised product!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Wednesday, 15 January 2020 11:56:32 PM
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I think what David L is trying to say is that in South Africa prior to '94 racism was clearly the discrimination between people on the basis of race/gender/religion against which many people fought.

Today the identity politics to which the left whingers cling to is precisely the discrimination between people on the basis of race/gender and religion.

In essence the left has become the new fascists.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 16 January 2020 7:31:41 AM
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In essence the left has become the new fascists.
Shadow Minister,
Just as the Academic Elite have become the new Tories !
Posted by individual, Thursday, 16 January 2020 10:06:53 AM
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Well said Alan B.

It's liberal moderates like you (and me) who question the rightwing majority OLO commenter consumption of whatever Rupert Murdoch Inc. spouts

http://youtu.be/fCtPnx5wbso
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 16 January 2020 8:06:16 PM
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plantagenet,
I just watched this video & the only thing I learned was that I don not need the Left's vindictiveness & jealousy repeated day after day ! It's not news, it's just confirmation of status quo !
When the lefties come out with some ideas how to make our society more caring & responsible then & only then will I sit up & take notice of them but as long as they remain the bludgers they are, well !
Posted by individual, Saturday, 18 January 2020 1:49:52 PM
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