This morning I read an article by a female, Asian, transgender, conservative person who quietly carried two signs around the Sydney university campus. The signs read: “I'm a trans and proud to be a conservative, there are only two genders”, and “Defend freedom of speech, political correctness is un-Australian”.

She was met with abuse. Some of the remarks made to her were: “I don't care that you're trans, you are transphobic”; “Get the ---- off campus”; “Your opinions suck, and you're an a....hole”.

A person identified as a member of the university Queer Action Collective, snuck up behind her and stole one of her signs,

She was also harassed by a person in a wheelchair claiming to be of a 'non-binary' gender. She later received email abuse.

If ever proof was needed that the Marxist lunatics trying to change the face of Australia are any more than bullying thugs concerned not with minority groups but merely destructive political power, this is it.

With 60% of au school leavers attending universities, expect this type of anti democratic behaviour to escalate, as the sheep herd expands.

A couple of years ago I served on a polling booth in a Sydney Bi-Election and on that booth were two University lecturers both Socialist Left, The Marxists control the education in the social and political science subjects at University.

This lady was totally reckless. She is lucky to come out alive after walking unguarded within a university campus.

If you must enter a university, you should ride a tank - and keep your head inside!

ttbn, where did you read this article, and what was the persons name? How did these abusers get her/his email address? Evidence please. Has it been reported to the police?
I hope this is not another 'Bolt Beat Up' story

//ttbn, where did you read this article//

Jesus, it's like volunteering at the library to teach seniors about the internet...

For amongst us who haven't figured out how to copy and paste URL's, and for those who haven't figured out what search engines are for:

http://www.spectator.com.au/2018/03/the-war-on-lgbti-conservatives/

I'm not sure I entirely see her point. Obviously people shouldn't be nicking her signs; that's not cricket. But if universities are supposed to be places for the free and open expression of ideas then I really don't see a problem with “Your opinions suck, and you’re an [donkey]hole”. That sounds to me like somebody frankly and openly expressing their heartfelt opinion in a politically incorrect manner. Isn't that what the 'conservatarians' are in favour of?

But I do like the way she pats herself on the back for not beating up the disabled. What a hero :)

And I'm interested by the fact that the entire premise for her strongly held views boils down to a prescriptivist view of linguistics, because just this morning I watched this video on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ehrFk-gLk

Uncanny, eh? Anyway, I have to say that I think the well-spoken young Englishman makes a better arguments about the use of they/their in the singular case than whatsherface.

Toni, I didn't start the discussion so there was no compulsion on my part to go and google ttbn claims to see if they stack up.

I read Ms DownUnders experience as presented in the Spectator, her account was over a year after these events supposedly took place. There was a pic of her with her two corflutes, which could have been taken in someones front garden. The evidence is nothing more than her account, based mostly on her own prejudiced opinions. A good point, she wanted to express her belief, not at a meeting of the CWA where little flack could be expected, but at a place where she could reasonably expect some degree of heated antagonism. When she was treated the way she had expected, which was clearly her intention, she wanted to get all bitchy about it. Tough.

I could make up a couple of corflutes about Aussie diggers being baby killers. Take them down to Martin Palace on ANZAC Day and wait for the expected claps and cheers from all and sundry. If that was not the case, and the crowd took an alternate view towards me, then a year later I could write up an opinion piece in the Spectator, about how peeded off I was about it all.

I'll wait for ttbn to post the link with all the fair dinkum evidence.

ooooh poor little conservative snowflake.

Funny how rightards expect to be able to insult and abuse with impunity but anyone gives it back they run crying to mummy.

Paul,

In one of those "online subscription magazines" you are so contemptuous of.

BTW, Paul. I have no intention of going to the trouble of 'proving' anything to you and your band of extreme Left sneerers. If you don't want to believe what I say, stiff cheese. I am not here to entertain you or educate you - an impossible task.

Yuyutsu,

I agree she was foolhardy, given the scum that infests universities. I suppose that she though that if they can do it, so can she. She will know better in future that the Marxists are determined in silencing all who don't confirm to their dogma. I believe she has a website that she shouldld be sticking to instead of risking life and limb. The Left are very nasty and dangerous people. Time and time again they have warned us that they will do all they can to win. I won't be surprised when they start killing people.

Now its gone from someone knocked off my cornflakes, to risking life and limb. She needs a crash course at the Andy Bolt School of Beat Up.

"I am not here to entertain you or educate you - an impossible task."

ttbn, one has to be coherent, and a little educated themselves before attempting such an undertaking. You fail on both scores, but keep trying. BTW, I still love you.

//She will know better in future that the Marxists are determined in silencing all who don't confirm to their dogma.//

Because apparently having your articles published by the Spectator counts as being silenced.

//I believe she has a website that she shouldld be sticking to instead of risking life and limb. The Left are very nasty and dangerous people.//

Risking life and limb? How melodramatic these tories are. Then again, I suppose 'risking sign and not being called a donkeyhole' doesn't have quite the same ring to it, even if it is accurate. Since when did accuracy matter?

//I won't be surprised when they start killing people.//

Well that's a bit of a leap - from pinching signs straight to killing people? What fertile imaginations these timorous wee tories have.

Marxist lunatics on University campuses?

If universities really are the last refuge of Marxism,
then why are they being run increasingly like
private companies?

The following links are worth a read:

http://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/andrew-bolt-karl-marx-and-the-casualisation-of-australian-universities,6581

And -

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cultural-marxism-the-ultimate-postfactual-dog-whistle-20171102-gzd7lq.html

The idea that public universities serve as a meeting place for
Marxists and the intelligensia of the extreme left is still
popular in some members of the public's imagination. They need
to blame someone for their problems afterall it can't be the
government or corrupt pollies.

Private companies? Genuinely private companies like Quantas, BHP,Bunnings etc are all sucking up to the Marxist lunatics. The universities started it first, so why would they stop when the above mentioned have joined in! Google seems to letting Foxy down.

//Genuinely private companies like Quantas, BHP,Bunnings etc are all sucking up to the Marxist lunatics.//

Last time I went to Bunnings I still had to pay for my potting mix instead of being given free access to the articles of consumption. They don't really have seem to have got the hang of the whole Communism thing.

Tony Lavis "the whole communist thing"? Let me help. You steal everything and then you and you elite mates run it into the ground and luxuriate in the stolen wealth. You imprison or murder anyone who you do not feel is supportive enough. Then you ensure the only news is how good you are. Oh nearly forgot you whine insessantly about the noble working class who you hate and oppress.
Not sure if that covers it all?

//You steal everything and then you and you elite mates run it into the ground and luxuriate in the stolen wealth. You imprison or murder anyone who you do not feel is supportive enough. Then you ensure the only news is how good you are. Oh nearly forgot you whine insessantly about the noble working class who you hate and oppress.
Not sure if that covers it all?//

Pretty good summary. And whilst I agree with you that the likes of Qantas do indeed hate and oppress the working class (have you flown economy recently?) and produce enourmous volumes of propaganda about how marvellous they are, I have my doubts that they murder or imprison people who support their competition, and I'm sure their wealth is not technically stolen.

I'm amazed that people still think that that money is not important to the socialist Left, when those pulling the strings in places like China and Russia are multi-billionaires. People like Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and Gough Whitlam did pretty well money-wise out of the poor silly fools who voted for them, thinking their heroes were actually sincere about equality. The filthy lucre is just as attractive to the Left as it is to the Right. It is more dangerous in the hands of the Left who, not naturally used to it, make real pigs of themselves when they get a taste of it. Look at Shorten, a contemporary example, quite happy to screw pensioners out of a bit of tax credit now that he is well off enough and safe enough from the cost of living struggle not to give a stuff about the plebs who support him and his gang of rich socialists.

Come on - cut the BS.

We desperately need a fundamental realignment of power in our
society, away from the big corporations and the big end of
town. Keeping corporate power in check should be a major
concern for us all. We need policies that will create a fairer
society. Our country has a strong egalitarian past, a tradition
worth preserving. Unfortunately looking out for one another
is discouraged and unfashionable in many quarters, to our
detriment. Who was it that got us the basic wage, flexible
working hours, and many other benefits that we take for granted
today - the big end of town?

So as I stated earlier - cut the BS and be grateful you live in
this country and not in the USA.

Well, you certainly seem desperate, Foxy. Just how is your life affected by these dreadful “big corporations”? I can't say that I have ever felt disadvantaged by corporations and the “big end of town”. Do you have a particular disadvantage in life? Some reason why you can't get on with things without feeling so bitter towards perfectly normal and important institutions that keep the wheels of commerce turning, provide most of the jobs, and provide us with lots of good stuff that we can either ignore or partake of? They also pay most of the tax, despite the nonsense talked by your ABC.

Q: What are Emma Alberici's qualifications to pronounce on taxation and matters economic?
A: A BA, majoring in Italian!

I'm not sure what you regard as the “power” of corporations. They are there to make a profit by selling us goods. They do that very well, and relatively cheaply because of their ability to buy in large quantities. I suppose you could call that power over small busisness (which socialists don't like either), but most people would call it 'competition, and a good small business person can compete in many ways. But, the corporations have no power over me, or you.

As for a “fairer society”, well such a thing is often invoked, but sadly, never with an explanation as to what such a society looks like.

“Our country has a strong egalitarian past”. A of a myth, that one, with a fair amount of nostalgia for the good old days that weren't all that good compared with what we have now.

You do a good line of BS yourself, Foxy. Should have stuck to the subject - “LGBTI Just Means Political Thuggery”

not a single country run by marxist that anyone has ever wanted to live in and yet academia pushes its dogmas. God help us if they ever get their wish. Today we are largely influenced by privileged feminist ,many of them in overpaid Government and media jobs crying about how underprivileged they are.

ttbn,

All of our lives are affected by these big corporations.
As Murray Hunter points out in the following link:

http://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/who-owns-corporate-australia,5033

Taken from the link:

"The top businesses in Australia do not exist within a
competitive environment, they influence our government's
policies and are able to earn above average profits. This has
potential consequences for local innovation, consequences for
sustainable exploitation of resources, consequences for which
industries survive and which industries are lost, and consequences
for the cost of living for Australians, not to mention fairness
and transparency in the marketplace."

Mr Hunter then points out that for example:

1) BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Woodside Petroleum, Newcrest Mining,
Fortescue Metals, and Origin Energy all have monopoly control
over the resources they exploit.

2) The 4 major banks exercise almost 90% control over all transactions in the economy and the smaller banks have the same
shareholding as the "big 4" as well.

3) News Corporation controls over 80% of all metropolitan newspapers in Australia.

4) Westfarmers operate Coles, Bunnings, Target, Kmart, Officeworks
in duopoly markets.

5) Telstra has a near monopoly.

6) Woolworths operates in a duopoly with Coles.

7) Westfield Group operates a unique group of shopping centres without competition and -

8) CSL has an almost complete monopoly on all blood products.

cont'd ...

BTW - I am so sorry for the young student to have
gone through such a traumatic ordeal on a university
campus. Times certainly appear to have changed since
I went to uni. In my day - she would have attracted
a curious crowd asking questions or been simply ignored.
Certainly not verbally or physically attacked.
Brave lady - and she handled the situation with great
class and dignity. (Too bad it seems to have skipped
some generations).

Foxy,

Thanks for letting me know that you agree with someone called Murray Hunter. I remain comfortable with my own sources and experience.

All the best.

ttbn, are you not a disciple of the drawer of caricatures. and purveyor of horse racing systems, that right wing embarrassment Larry Pickering? If you ever want the good oil on aboriginals, gays, Muslims or any other minority that takes your fancy, Larry is sure to provide it in his ever sarcastic way through that oft quoted 'Pickering Post'.

Foxy,

Once again you quote Independent Australia, and they leave you looking stupid with the crap they post.

Firstly a monopoly is a single entity controlling nearly the entire supply or market for a product. None of the examples they quote is correct as even in Aus there are many players.

That mines cost many $bns to develop takes giant companies. Similarly, the 4 big banks compete with each other and smaller lending institutions. Also, NewsCorp does not control 80% of the papers, more like 70% of the paper sales, not because of predatory practices, but because readers prefer their offerings.

Next, the "cultural Marxism" that the IA and SMH were declaring non-existent is alive and well at Sydney Uni, but probably not as well ensconced as in the US and the EU. However, cultural Marxism is not traditional Marxism rather a ratbag of extremist tenets such as 3rd wave feminism, identity politics with a smattering of socialism.

An example would be:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/race-gender-politics-swamp-great-debate/news-story/27abe9ee6cae87b9ea5ed7865e483723

"The politics of race and gender have arrived at the University of Sydney’s oldest debating club, which this year will field teams of debaters comprised mainly of “non-cis-males, wom*n, and persons marginalised by white ­supremacy” as opposed to the best debaters they can find.

The University of Sydney Union, which describes itself as “one of the best debating ­institutions in the world”, says its affirmative action policy will ­ensure that teams heading to the Australian Easter Debating Championships (or “Easters”) for novices next month will include more “persons of colour” and others from “minority ethnocultural background” as well as born-women, and others who don’t identify as “cis-male”."

However, most of these idiots are forced to grow up when they leave uni and they are mugged by reality, with the exception of a few morons that seek refuge with the greens.