In our democratic country we were never asked if we wanted to be replaced.

Anti-immigrant protests
It doesn't fit the official multicultural narrative.
This will be decried as racist and all participants considered heretics that should be excommunicated and limited in their ability to take part in society.

Canem Malum,

You're quoting a podcast segment about epistemic bubbles, then immediately demonstrate why that topic matters.

The segment raises the possibility that extreme beliefs flourish in echo chambers. Your response? To call for the defunding of every institution that might offer alternative perspectives.

That’s not resisting propaganda. That’s surrendering to the echo chamber.

You’ve gone from criticising media bias (a fair topic) to calling for:

- the dismantling of public broadcasting,
- the defunding of universities, and
- suggesting that Australia is in the grip of an “enemy” trying to “replace” you.

That’s not civic concern. That’s siege mentality. And ironically, it confirms exactly what the podcast warned about: people so steeped in their bubble that anything outside of it feels like enemy propaganda.

“In our democratic country we were never asked if we wanted to be replaced.”

No one’s being replaced. We’re not in some Game of Thrones-style succession crisis. What’s happening is natural and inevitable demographic change - all of which is manageable with sound policy. You may not like it, but framing it as a conspiracy to “replace” you is neither democratic nor rational. It’s the language of extremism.

You’re angry at the ABC, angry at universities, angry at migrants, and now angry at a podcast trying to understand why people get so angry they start seeing enemies in every institution. The irony’s so thick it could fund a department.

You want accountability? Start with yourself. If your views can't withstand scrutiny or coexist with dissent, it’s not the ABC that’s fragile.

Kudos Kid and others,

A grub at one of these flag waving riots has been arrested for running amok with a placard supporting the accused murderer of two police officers in Victoria Denzi Freeman, a so called Sovereign Citizen! Out of control Neo-Nazi's, wack job Sovereign Citizens, don't worry you have plenty of like minded supporters on this little forum! Right Fellas!

Did anyone else see the police arrest of the neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell outside a Melbourne court today. According to the Kudos Kid poor Mr Sewell is simply misunderstood. With him continually referring to me as a Marxist, Communist, whatever, I only have one word to describe this bloke.

Are these friends of YOURS? More violence from the far right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhG3OdGjSFc

Paul, you miss the obvious hypocrisy of your position. There were probably more readers of Mein Kampf in the antisemitic marches than the March for Australia. And I know which group represents the biggest threat to peace in Australia and the world.

Here's a tweet with an image which makes my point. http://x.com/GrahamY/status/1962841356260495464

And there is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to control the level of immigration into your country, but there is in wanting to wipe a whole country out.

It seems that Sussan Ley has offered her support to Albanese to “repair our social cohesion, to strengthen what binds us, and to ensure that every Australian, no matter their background or faith, can feel safe, respected…”.

This is another example of the #me too leftist shift of the Liberal Party. A genuine conservative party would have no truck with with Socialism on this matter: they would be miles apart on how to achieve social cohesion. And the Socialists prefer division; they have done everything possible to divide and rule since they were elected. 

The Liberals are finished as far as  conservative politics go.