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Cheerleading for an uncompassionate Australia : Comments
By David Silkoff, published 28/4/2009The fact that a newspaper with the highest circulation in Australia is such an unapologetic campaigner for social exclusion is concerning.
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Silkoff doesn’t actually call for a ban on freedom of speech, but he points out that much of it is “odious”.
He is also too fired up to recognise the fact that fact that Herald Sun and people like Andrew Bolt cater for free-thinking conservatives, and also ignores the fact that, there are more left wing rags around to cater for the intellectually challenged and easily led.
Another silly comment is: “Every single one of them (9 letters) proclaimed outrage at the actions of the refugees.” Dear oh dear! That couldn’t be a popular opinion, surely? There should have been 9, preferably 10, letter writers proclaiming the opposite!
And, how dare Andrew Bolt, in a free press, voice his opinions on the Government’s too soft approach to illegals when he should be spruiking about a “concern that parts of the world are in grave and dangerous states of upheaval…”. The cheek of the man, to be concerned about his own country and not the troubles foreigners have brought on themselves!
“It is not that these opinions were expressed that is worrying, but rather that these opinions are expressed in isolation, with no dissenting voices” moans Silkoff. Perhaps there are no dissenting voices in the wider community; just the few he is appealing to on OLO. He also drags up the old bushfire one, as though Australians are not going to be more concerned for their own people than someone they don’t know. Get real, Mr. Silkoff. Particularly as you believe that opinions contradicting your own are “reactionary” “hateful”.