Hey, ttbn and Dan.

I know you guys have some extreme views about the social makeup of our society how we are ...ked up, as is your right, but how about ideas about how to deal with the issue about race.

I always thought OLO was much more than a whingefest.

Come on, surely you have some advice for our policy elites about what to do.

Hey Dan, I reads recently that by 1945 most of the world population spoke one of nine major languages, but now parts of Sydney have 200 languages or dialects.

So what are you saying, that most can't communicate with each other. the way you put it is that people may be bumping into each other on every street due to no ability to understand or communicate.

Me think you are exaggerating to make a point.

BTW, I do agree that critical race theory is not the way to go, even for the simplistic left that have nothing better to do than simply to attack, attack and attack the social developments of the great liberal democracies.

But what do you expect from most of Australia's academics, who really don't have much clue beyond expressing their bias.

Learning and understanding all arguments simply is not considered by them as it would indeed complicate their arguments.

I am a defender of the multi-ethnic nature of the great liberal democracies, but I do recognise that there are problems if policy is driven by the flawed assumption that all cultures are equal.

They are clearly not, but that does not mean I need to abandon my belief that a sophisticated liberal democracy can be mullti-ethnic and lead the world

rache

Even the thought of cancelling the study of Western Civilisation is beyond laughable.
The Roman Empire still stands in remnant form today in the RC Church. Over two thousand years of history cannot be ignored, particularly one with such significant influences on world events.

“White privileged majority” is everybody’s complaint. But a closer look at the obvious criminal element of our privileged Political class, one would need to ask, what shade of white classifies as the bench mark? It’s not sensible to mock reality.

And it’s well to remember, the seething masses of any society, black or white, or shades between, are in the end, the peasants who rebel against the Elite overlords.

I think that divide and rule oversimplifies political tensions. It’s more like “have’s and have not’s “.
How much can be stolen from the underclasses before the peasants revolt, irrespective of skin colour.

Dan

Rache,

Why do you say that an expensive and generous proposal for a course was “just a dog whistle to promote the principle of White Supremacy”? Do you know something the rest of us do not?

Can you lead us to this “principle of White Supremacy”? I have never heard of such a thing.

Has history ever been “denied”, or is it just being re-written? Bruce Pascoe’s recent efforts come to mind.

What are the privileges whites have that are not available to everyone in Australia?

Who is “dividing people” and promoting internal conflict - apart from the Marxists we all know about?

Chris Lewis,

What criteria do you use to deem other people’s views as “extreme”?

What do we expect from academics? Nothing but the usual nonsense. I expect more from my peers, who are a bit slow on the uptake, but they, the ordinary people, are our only hope.

You don’t have to abandon your beliefs in a multi-racial or multicultural democracy, but I think that is more a dream than a belief. Can you name successful multi-racial/multicultural societies that have had the condition forced on them without consultation? When things have been the same for a very long time, then suddenly they were not?

The survey would seem to suggest that Australia is not one of them, if indeed there are any.

ttbn,

Your last comment is excellent.

It asks a question, which should be given in all humanities courses.

Do multi-ethnic societies work?

when I was at monash, I had a similar question.

However, it was set up in such a way you could only praise multiculturalism to get a good mark.

I got a HD, but I told another Monash teacher later that the concept was problematic.

I also challenged the multicultural loving lecturer by expressing anger with his lecture when he stated multiculturalism was accepted because of the working class.

Fraser was hardly working class, and I was sometimes bombed with rocks or abused in a public housing part of Preston for being a wog.

I do try to see both sides, but I was never going to fit in at most Aussie unis which are indeed dominated by the left

Chris,

OK. But, the questions were: can you name a successful multi-racial/culture society that has had it forced upon it, and what is your criteria for declaring "extreme" the views of Dan, CM and ttbn.