‘We are religious, as religion is an inescapable concept and everybody is religious. Religions have their holy days (from which we get the word “holiday”), with Christianity having Christmas and Easter, Judaism Yom Kippur, Islam Ramadan, Hinduism Diwali, and so forth.
The relatively new religion of progressivism, which seeks to supplant and displace the previously dominant religion of Christianity, is in the process of establishing January 26, Australia Day, as the holiest day in its sacral calendar.
Progressivism borrows heavily from Christianity, which has been dominant in forming the West’s worldview over many centuries. But instead of seeking reconciliation with God, progressives seek above all social justice –- to set the captives free –– a concept with strong Christian roots. And instead of devotion to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Church of Woke devotes itself to fighting against the sins of Racism, Patriarchy and Heteronormativity.
In the same way that the concept of original sin is central to Christian doctrine, where to be Christian one must first acknowledge one’s own sin, progressive doctrine requires Australians to recognise and acknowledge that Australia is a racist country -– this in spite of Australia being a fair-go country with incidences of dictionary-definition (as opposed to expansive-definition) racism being rare and isolated.
Indeed, if what Woke teaching says about Australia were true, then we would have to wade through gushing rivers of blood every time we stepped outside, what with 50% of the population either born overseas or with at least one parent born overseas, and nearly 40% of the populations of Melbourne and Sydney born overseas. Naturally, by questioning such Woke dogma, I am, of course, committing a mortal sin risking eternal damnation, also known as being cancelled.
Australia Day, therefore, offers penitents the opportunity to acknowledge the country’s original sin of Racism and to ask for forgiveness. Similarly, International Women’s Day offers an opportunity for this same ritual, but this time in relation to the sin of Patriarchy; while the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras allows us to reject the grave sin of Heteronormativity by paying homage to an identity that has come to occupy a prominent place in the pantheon of Diversity.
Through these purging rituals, society undergoes a process of progressive sanctification, where, even as it recognises and struggles against its sins, society never quite frees itself of its sinful nature: the socialism is willing but the fascism is weak. Nevertheless, through a long march through the institutions, society can progressively mortify the fascism, until the final enemy, political incorrectness, is destroyed.
Therefore, siblings in Wokeness, let us come together in this annual ritual of self-flagellation that we mark on this national holy day, Australia Day.
And may Wokeism bless you and keep you in its care.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation steals more than one billion dollars from the tax payer each year to deliver progressive Leftist/Marxist/Socialist news each and every day. One Nation’s Mark Latham is one politician that is willing to call the ABC out. Mark says ‘I wish the ABC’s Climate Alarmists would make up their minds. With rising sea levels, in Western Sydney we were supposed to get beautiful ocean views. But now in the article below, we are being told to abandon our homes, live underground and paint our roads white so they repel the heat. All in the middle of the coolest summer in memory. Just because of a few hot days since last week. You really need to read this article three times to make sure someone could actually write this fear-mongering nonsense. ABC: Always Biased Crap. A waste of taxpayer’s money. A media factory for Left-wing propaganda.
This is happening in Australian schools as well. Now that Biden and many Progressives are in charge 1984 is happening now in 2021 and this is not going to end well! A video is attached at the bottom of this article.
‘A middle school in Springfield, Missouri, recently held a diversity training program that forced teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix” and watch a video of “George Floyd’s last words.”
According to whistleblower documents and teachers who attended the program at Cherokee Middle School, the training began with a “land acknowledgement,” claiming that “Springfield Public Schools is built on ancestral territory of the Osage, Delaware and Kickapoo Nations and Peoples.” (At the time of publication, Springfield Public Schools had not responded to a request for comment.) The diversity trainers, Jeremy Sullivan and Myki Williamson, asked the teachers to “acknowledge the dark history and violence against Native and Indigenous People” before engaging in the day’s program of “social justice work.”
The trainers then forced the teachers to watch a nine-minute video of “George Floyd’s last words.” The film is silent, showing only white text on a black screen, illustrating Floyd’s final utterances, including his cries for his mother. Such videos are a common technique in many diversity-training programs—and cult indoctrinations. The intention is to overload the senses of the participants and create an “emotional anchor” that serves to justify subsequent political arguments, even if they’re non sequiturs.
Next, Sullivan announced the agenda: “We’re going to look at three large concepts and those concepts are oppression, white supremacy, and systemic racism.” He and Williamson provided the teachers a handout to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” which defines white heterosexual males as the “privileged social group” and women, minorities, transgender, and LGBT people as “oppressed social groups.” Presumably, those at the top of the oppression matrix, including many of the teachers in the room, are responsible for the “racism, sexism, transgender oppression, heterosexism, [and] classism” against disfavored groups.
The diversity trainers then narrowed the focus to race, distributing another handout that outlines the concepts of “overt white supremacy” and “covert white supremacy.” The document claims that “lynching, hate crimes, KKK, neo-Nazis, [and] burning crosses” are “socially unacceptable” forms of white supremacy, while “education funding from property tax, colorblindness, calling the police on black people, BIPOC as Halloween costumes, not believing experiences of BIPOC, tone policing, [and] white silence” are “socially acceptable” forms of white supremacy.
This is a dangerous conflation. The trainers are attempting to extend the stigma of true social evils—slavery, lynching, Nazism—to any deviation from progressive political preferences, from property taxes to criminal justice to Halloween costumes. According to one teacher who attended the training, the handout originally listed “MAGA” as a form of “covert white supremacy,” but it was removed after public outcry. The principle, however, has remained: diversity trainers use the emotional overload of historical evils to justify the imposition of current dogma.
Even more cynically, diversity trainers such as those at Springfield Public Schools have begun to insist on a standard of “affirmative consent.” This means that teachers must not only accept the tenets of the training—in some cases even condemning themselves as white supremacists or oppressors—but also actively vocalize that acceptance. When one teacher said that he was “afraid to say anything,” Sullivan quickly shut him down, telling the teacher that he must think what an “underrepresented or under-resourced student [might] say of our fear of speaking up.” Remember: under the new ethics, disagreement is verboten; silence is transformed into an admission of guilt. “White silence” is a form of “white supremacy.”
Finally, after more than an hour of training, one white teacher, who was raised by a black stepfather began pushing back, asking: “Is the district saying that we should be Marxists?” He continued:
While I don’t think there’s a person in the room who doesn’t agree that this is an important topic that should be dealt with, the way that it’s being framed comes from Herbert Marcuse who took and stripped all of the economic policies of Marxist theory and turned it into [cultural Marxism]. . . . I grew up the son of a black man, he raised me to believe in Dr. King’s teachings. Dr. King did not teach the kind of vitriol that we see out of Marxism, [which] has a long replete history of countries being bigoted and prejudiced against others and then murdering millions as a result.
The diversity trainers, both white, were stunned. At first, Sullivan acknowledged the Marxist orientation of the diversity training program. “I know that that’s the roots, I’m aware of all that information,” he said. Then, perhaps realizing that teaching Frankfurt School Marxism in a Missouri public school could be controversial, he distanced himself: “The goal here is to take a stand against racism, it’s not to be totalitarian. . . . There’s not some big political agenda. It’s certainly not Marxism. It’s just let’s make sure that all of our kids are truly valued and celebrated.”
This is the tell. Many diversity training programs—and the political movement known as Black Lives Matter—operate on the principle of bait and switch. Following Marcuse, they predicate their rhetoric on the “emotional anchor” of racial suffering, then use euphemisms to make their political arguments. In the Missouri training program, the school district proposes “empowerment” as the solution, which sounds anodyne, even appealing. However, in the documentation, the district defines “empowerment” as training students to “refuse to accept the dominant ideology and their subordinate status and take actions to redistribute social power more equitably.” The district defines a euphemism with more euphemisms, but the deeper meaning is clear: that American society is white supremacist and must be replaced with a regime of race-based redistribution.
For years, Americans have watched as educators have pushed deeply divisive “antiracism” programs in coastal cities such as Berkeley, Portland, and Seattle. Now “antiracism” has come to the heartland.’https://www.discovery.org/a/antiracism-comes-to-the-heartland/
‘oppression matrix
The oppression matrix provides a model for analyzing social oppression and considering the formation of multiple interacting (intersectional ) parts of our identities and power structures that determine our lives.’ https://blogs.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/oppression-matrix/
‘“Free speech” is a term that gets thrown around quite often these days. But what is it? And why is it important?
The freedom of speech is simply the ability to say, write, or otherwise express what you truly believe without fear of punishment or retaliation from the government.
This freedom is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.” The authors of our Constitution believed it was very important to protect this freedom.
And for good reason.
Speaking is how you express your thoughts. So if government officials can force you to say things you don’t believe, you no longer control the content of your speech and thus lose the freedom to live consistently with the principles you treasure most.
Government officials who seek to control your speech are trying to control what you think and what you do. And that’s contrary to the very idea of freedom. Not only that, but it’s contrary to the dignity of the human person. Our thoughts not only cause our actions, they are the most personal possession we have.
While upholding human dignity is the most important reason to protect this freedom, it certainly isn’t the only reason.
If you want good ideas to have influence, you’ll support protections for the freedom of speech. The best ideas often come from the robust discussion and debate of many different ideas.
And this cannot exist without free speech.
What the freedom of speech is not.
Some might argue that the freedom of speech is just a piece of rhetoric used by those who want to say hateful things. But this is false.
Free speech is a right that every individual possesses as a human being created by God.
And this right isn’t just for those with certain beliefs. In fact, that’s the whole point. There are as many unique perspectives as there are people. Our ability to share our perspective with others is what free speech is all about.
As the Declaration of Independence says, “all men are created equal.” But this doesn’t mean that all ideas are equal. There will always be bad or even false ideas that we must address.
But the answer isn’t to shut down debate or silence the people sharing those ideas. The answer is more speech.
We can use our own speech to answer hateful statements with good and truthful ones. We can debate ideas we consider bad with those we believe are good.
No matter what, we need those with whom we disagree to be involved in the conversation.
Debate with our ideological opponents sharpens our ideas and may even allow us to see the truth in a new and unexpected way. Not only that, but our opponents’ right to free speech should be protected because they are human beings with dignity just like us. And if their right is taken away, then ours can easily be taken away too.
Follow the science so say the Leftist! Oh, but on gender follow your feelings! As Rome fell so will the West as we have known it. Now, ‘It seems that one of the most controversial questions you can now pose in Australia is to ask for a definition of a woman. Even using the word ‘woman’ is considered an act of tyranny by trans activists.
Other questions with historically obvious answers have also become awkward and less obvious:
Should women and girls be made to share change rooms and toilets with males?
Is it okay for biological males to compete against women at the 2021 Olympics?
If a male sex offender identifies as a woman, should they be put in a women’s prison?
Should women’s refuges be forced to accept males who identify as women?
You may think that the problem that they are being targeted for is apparent discrimination due to their gender specific ruling. This is not the case. Rather, it is because their website states that transgender women are welcome, but only once they have undergone gender-reassignment surgery. Not good enough for the extreme trans activists. For them, if a male wants to identify as female, even if it’s just for a dip in a beautiful pool, they must be allowed.
There is a lot at stake here. The first and most important casualty is truth. From creation humanity was made man and woman. It may be getting harder to speak the truth, but it has never been more important.
This truth is backed up by science: there are two sexes, XX and XY.
Anything outside of that is a genetic abnormality that can still be classified as male or female based on the presence or absence of the Y chromosome. There is no Z, there is no W. Surgery and cross-sex hormones can’t change us into the opposite sex. They can affect appearances. They can stunt or damage some outward expressions of our reproductive organs. But they cannot turn someone from one sex into the other.
Changing sexes is a biological impossibility. Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men. All become feminised men or masculinised women. To assert anything else is a cruel lie that will never provide the long-term wholeness and happiness that people seek.
Secondly, this case is yet another example of hard won women’s rights and resources being eradicated by extreme trans activism that seeks to silence women and even feminist organisations.’ https://www.acl.org.au/blog_wf_onlytwosexes
The Australian Left hate Australia Day which occurs every January 26, along with any other occasion that might show that the English settling here was good! These Leftist goons have time on their hands so eventually changing days of celebration will come to pass.
‘Even the most loyal Australian could be forgiven for having a sense of foreboding at the approach of Australia Day. The national holiday has become a platform to denounce anything intended to inspire love of country and pride in its achievements.
Bunnings, the quintessential home a improvement store, provides a sorry example. It has done a roaring trade during the pandemic, yet far from feeling inspired to celebrate the great Australian values of home renovation, its Townsville store banned staff from wearing the national flag on their uniform, only reversing the decision when it sparked an uproar.
The National Australia Day Council’s ‘Reflect. Respect. Celebrate’ campaign advertisement bent over backwards to be inclusive with Australians of every hue, gender and religion declaring that ‘we are all part of the story’. Yet this well-intentioned and expensive effort to inspire national unity by adhering to woke pieties managed to offend the very people it was seeking appease. ‘Hey @cinemanova,’ tweeted ‘unaustralian native’, ‘we were made uncomfortable by the Australia Day ads that you are screening. This is highly inappropriate for mob to have to pay to sit through. I hope you reconsider.’ The trendy cinema caved in, in less than an hour, announcing that it would remove the ‘propaganda’.
Saputo Dairy made the same mistake. It thought it could placate an Aboriginal activist by changing the name of Coon Cheese, which he claimed was racist. The cheese is named after its inventor, Edward William Coon but Saputo announced last week that the product will henceforth be known as CHEER, hoping that the cheery name would bring that extra little bit of happiness into its consumers’ lives. No such luck. Anti-Coon campaigner Stephen Hagan wanted ‘something a bit more inclusive of First Nations people,’ and was grumpy that he hadn’t even been consulted. The idea that Aboriginal activists should be consulted on the naming of cheese might seem far-fetched but who can doubt that if an Aboriginal ‘Voice to Parliament’ is achieved it would quickly lead to calls for a ‘Voice to Business’? After veto-ing ads and cheese, what next? Baby names?
When Australia Day honours are handed out, those, such as Professor Thomas Borody, who have shown inspirational courage, intelligence and persistence in standing up to the medical establishment and championing a safe, affordable treatment for Covid, which is saving hundreds of thousands around the world, are passed over. Instead, Shane Fitzsimmons, the state’s former Rural Fire Service Commissioner was named NSW Australian of the Year after he burnished his green credentials during the bushfires by claiming that it was climate change that prevented hazard reduction rather than the war waged on the timber industry by environmentalists. Fitzsimmons used the platform to further enhance his woke credentials by calling for an Indigenous translation of the national anthem to be added on. It’s a nice idea but like his thoughts on climate change, it is factually challenged. According to The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies there are more than 250 Indigenous languages, including and under within them 800 dialects. How could anyone choose between them? There are two versions just in Dharug, the language of the Dharawal people in Sydney. The English rendition of one version begins, ‘We Australian mob are going to have a good dance, We good young fellows, Good earth and speared a lot of wallabies…’ You don’t have to be clairvoyant to see that it wouldn’t be long before the Green woke vegan feminists were sharpening their pencils to make editorial changes. Those who presume to speak on behalf of Indigenous Australia always act as if everyone shares their radical left-wing views. In fact, almost three- quarters of all Aboriginal people identify as Christians. Given that more than 60 per cent of non-indigenous Australians also identify as Christians, faith might provide an easier path to reconciliation than politics if it weren’t for the inconvenient truth that Christianity is abhorred by the ruling elite.
In 2011, 50 Christian schools of different denominations horrified the Green Left secular establishment when they sang a version of the anthem penned by a Sri Lankan immigrant who wrote a second verse that commenced, ‘With Christ our head and cornerstone, we’ll build our nation’s might’. Peter Garrett, who was then the federal Labor Minister for Education, and Warren Pearson, chief executive of the National Australia Day Council admonished the schools for changing the lyrics and the Australian Parents Council and Federation of Parents and Citizens’ Association of NSW called for the version to be banned.
The prime minister’s decision to change the words of the national anthem from ‘young and free’ to ‘one and free’ was meant to acknowledge Australia’s ancient indigenous history and yet nothing makes a nation seem more teenage than the perpetual embarrassment that the elite manifest at any mention of the motherland. The federal member for Warringah independent Zali Steggall has called for a minute’s silence to be held on Australia Day to acknowledge its sombre meaning for Indigenous Australians. But why stop at a minute? Couldn’t Ms Steggall be silent for the rest of her parliamentary term?’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/01/spare-us-the-australia-day-antics/
The China virus got rid of President Donald Trump and it is also taking away our freedom to shop without government interference. In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) the all knowing politicians believe the QR check in will become a permanent feature for its once on a time somewhat free citizens!
Politics must be a very hard business to be in if one has a conscience! Why am I saying that? Well, for instance abortion. Abortion allows a woman to go and have the baby that relies on here for its life to be murdered legally. Yet, politicians in ‘The NSW Government is seeking community views on a draft Bill to improve recognition of the loss of an unborn child as a result of a third-party criminal act.
Currently, the law in NSW, like several other Australian jurisdictions, recognises the destruction of an unborn child as grievous bodily harm to the woman who carries that child. This Bill, however, seeks to specifically recognise the unique and significant loss of an unborn child as a result of criminal offending.’https://www.nsw.gov.au/have-your-say/loss-of-pregnancy-and-criminal-law
On one hand the baby may be killed with the blessing of the government, the politicians, through abortion usually paid for by the tax payer and on the other hand these same politicians want my and your views of a woman losing her unborn child by a third party! This is POLITICAL hypocrisy at its worse!!!
Evolutionists are a mighty smart bunch. They weren’t there but they throw their millions of years around as FACT. Oh, by the way politicians fit into this as well as they spend your money.
‘Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the historic declaration recognises the extraordinary global significance of the Wollemi Pines, with some of the adult trees estimated to be up to a thousand years old.
“This declaration enables us to take existing protections up another notch, and set specific legislative requirements including a dedicated fire management strategy to secure the survival of the species for generations to come,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“Prior to their discovery in 1994, Wollemi Pines were only known to us in fossil records with fossil evidence pointing to the species’ existence up to 90 million years ago.”
Just over 12 months ago, teams from the RFS and National Parks undertook an extensive operation to protect the Wollemis from extinction when the secret site came under threat from the devastating summer bushfires.
Being a conservative and a Christian will have its times now that Sleepy Joe and the Devilcrats are in the WH and pretty much control Congress. Here is an old senile tottering white man that has been in Congress for fifty years now lecturing others on how good things will be since he’s in charge! Hmm!
Well, here in Australia the Left love him and continue to hate President Trump. What’s new!? Well, here’s the latest from the Socialist New Daily Down Under.
‘After weeks of pro-Trump demonstrations, failed legal battles, a deadly riot at Capitol Hill and a second impeachment, it’s finally happening.
Joe Biden has taken over as the 46th President of the United States.
In the eyes of millions of Americans, the Democrats leader represents a new dawn for America after a whirlwind four years of unpredictable leadership under Donald Trump.
whatyareckon 