You’ve got to admire Andrew Bolt’s cojones, if nothing else. After all, when Bolt was coward-punched by two Antifa soy-boys in the street, he wasted no time spinning around and dropping one of the would-be attackers like a sack of potatoes.
In 2011, Bolt was famously convicted of “breaching the racial discrimination act”, after publishing two columns alleging that part-Aborigines were deliberately leveraging their ancestry. While most of the left-media celebrated the taking-down of their greatest bogey-man, others, like ABC host Jonathan Holmes, called the former Labor party candidate judge’s ruling “profoundly disturbing”.
A lesser man might have been “chilled” from ever touching the subject again. Bolt has come out swinging.
Brooke Blurton, new star of Channel 10’s The Bacherlorette, is one of three people last week who proved race politics in Australia has gone completely mad.
Blurton got even the ABC excited about 10’s meat-market, where the star picks a mate from a pack of attention-seekers. It trilled: “Blurton makes television history as the show’s first Indigenous, bisexual star”[…]
But wait. Blurton is determined to be non-binary about sexual identity, but when it comes to race she is extremely binary.
Like New Zealand reporting on matters Maori, Australian journalists have some odd habits when it comes to reporting on Aboriginal Australians. Leaving aside their quaint resort to what one might call “Abonics”, Australian journalists have a weird habit of identifying Aboriginal Australians as “a Wiradjuri man” or “Palawa woman”. As if that’s the totality of their being.
Needless to say, such adjectives are inevitably prefixed as “proud”.
They’re certainly never identified as “Australian”.
On Instagram [Blurton] identifies herself solely as Aboriginal: “A proud Noongar-Yamatji woman.” She has also backed an Aboriginal-only advisory parliament in our constitution, claiming it “will help my people have a seat at the table”.
“We invite you to walk with us.”
So now we’re divided by Blurton into “you” and “us”. Non-Aboriginals and Aboriginals.
That is strangely binary when Blurton is in fact the daughter of an English man, and of a mother who was of both Malaysian and Aboriginal ancestry.
If I was to parade myself as a “proud Irish man”, I’ve no doubt the real Paddies would roll their eyes. Yet I am surely as “Irish” as Blurton is “Noongar-Yamatji”.
Which brings me to Nathan Sentance.
Sentance looks almost as white as me, but identifies as Aboriginal and works in the Museum of Australia, which last weekend opened an exhibition that makes false or unsubstantiated claims about how wicked whites were to Aborigines[…]
Sentance also retweeted a call to “burn down all settler colonies till our people are free”. Will he start with the homes of his white relatives?
Then there’s Professor Mick Dodson.
Dodson, like brother Pat, identifies as Aboriginal and has long been a race warrior raging against “colonisers”, even though his father was an Irish Australian, Snowy Dodson, who sent both sons to a Catholic private school[…]
Dodson has preached that whites are what made some Aboriginals bad, telling the National Press Club in 2003: “Most of the violence, if not all, that Aboriginal communities are experiencing today are not part of Aboriginal tradition or culture[…]
That ignores overwhelming evidence of incredible brutality towards women in traditional Aboriginal societies.
Perhaps Dodson blames his white ancestry for his own alleged behaviour.
He’s had to quit as the Northern Territory’s Treaty Commissioner after complaints by Aboriginal women that he’d abused and threatened them, allegedly telling one she was a “slut” and he’d “knock her f–king lights out”.
Herald-Sun
Obviously, colonialism is to blame. It surely couldn’t be his own fault.
In the meantime, the people who screech the loudest about the alleged “racism” of others seem to have a singular fixation with dividing everyone by race.
I think there’s a word for dividing people by race. Starts with “A”…?
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