Hey ttbn,
No, I didn't see it, I tried looking but couldn't find it.
I've heard some people here mention his blogs before but don't know the web address.
Can you please post the link for me?

I had a spit about this already a few days back on the 'Integrity and Identity Politics' thread.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=18516&page=0#329452
I've never seen Yassmin Abdel-Magied on TV myself though, I was just responding to the article.

Hey onthebeach,
I think you posted another article a few days back associated with Prof. Triggs.
- Not hiring men or something... She seems like a real piece of work.
Agree with ttbn, she needs to be investigated.
I'd love to see what an email leak would really tell us about her.
It seems like the left is completely entrenched into the University body.

I also had my 2 cents on the Cindy Prior matter on ttbn's 'Are We Already Losing Democracy' thread, from what I've read I think the lawsuit is frivolous.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=7457&page=0#229774
Given that I have a little indigenous in me (and even if I didn't) I'd stick up for Cindy Prior if I thought she had a genuine argument (within reason), but I honestly don't.
Maybe the accused said something she found offensive, but that's not for me to say.
As for demanding $250,000 plus - I think its ludicrous and proves how Americanised we are becoming.

The article I read did not state all of the accused comments, one may have been racially offensive.
But given the context of the incident, none of the other comments that I read would be considered altogether unreasonable given the circumstances.

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Substance, not just insults, although insults can be very satisfying.

Back to what Shriver implied: she was supporting the right of anyone to write about anything. One should be able to write about ancient Rome without actually being an ancient Roman, or include a French character in a composition without actually being French. Or to write about a young person without actually being young. She was opposing by implication the prohibition on, say, a Black writer, to ever write about whites, or include white characters in any composition.

By extension, where would mixed-'race' people fit in, such as my kids, and so many others ? They wouldn't be allowed to write about EITHER, not being 'fully' one or the other ?

Apartheid died more than twenty years ago in South Africa: who would have thought that the pseudo-Left would try to resurrect it, and give bigotry a new lease of life ?

I'm fascinated with the progress of Indigenous people at universities, i.e. what used to be called the 'masses' of Indigenous people: the equivalent of 22 % of an age-group graduating each year, and that rate growing at about 8 % p.a. I'm not Indigenous but I think that's wonderful.

True, I've got a lot of contempt for Indigenous elites, even at universities, who would be happy to claim some credit for what the people, the 'masses', the 'common people', are doing themselves, with no real help from the eternally-self-regarding elites.

But as a non-Indigenous person, am I allowed to have admiration for the masses of Indigenous people, even if I have some contempt for their self-chosen 'betters' ? I think so.

We don't have to love each other, or view each other completely uncritically, or even our 'selves' uncritically: otherwise, we could end up with a situation where nobody OUTSIDE can criticise (because they can't know), and nobody INSIDE can criticise (because it would be disloyal), so people could keep going up blind alleys with no danger warnings.

[TBC]

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The crippling of discussion by bigots means that we can't tease out complex issues, we're howled down as if pat formulas and slogans are self-evidently true.

For example, many people have trouble with reconciling 'equality' with 'difference' - surely, they think in their infantile way, that to be different means that somebody is, well, not the same as, and same means equal, so they can't be equal ?

But everybody - equal by virtue of their common humanity and the rights accruing from that - is different in some sway from everyone else. We each have different histories, different ancestries, different viewpoints. One important advance of the Enlightenment was to get past 'difference' (even our 'uniqueness') and recognise our common 'equality'.

Joan W. Scott wrote about this thirty years ago when early feminists were grappling with the same issue. Check it out on Google Scholar.

Joe
www.firstsources.info

I saw a video on the internet just a day or two ago about a white
student at a US university. He had his hair done in dreadlocks.
A black woman abused him for taking over what belongs to blacks.
She even tried to stop him leaving.
The regressive left has really lost the plot !

' The regressive left has really lost the plot !' what plot Bazz. They have always hated the white normal male.

AC,

Try heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrewbolt.