In the Land of Bruce and Sheila, where they have care and concern for the Indigenous, but not for the Unvaccinated, it seems that the majority of Australians have upset the Empathy Bandwagon and voted ‘no’ to having some kind of Indigenous body surgically attached to their parliament.
I’m a bit hazy on the details, as are most Australians it seems. The proposal was to have some kind of official body - The Voice - permanently and constitutionally grafted on to government. What it was for, how it was to operate, what it was supposed to do - dunno, mate.
But the Aussies have rejected it anyway - by 60/40 against/for.
The British - and why does it always seem to be the British? - first conceived of Australia as some kind of huge open-air prison, centuries before progressives had even heard of the Gaza Strip. They’d ship all the bloody awkward bastards and undesirables there. Not the most auspicious start for any country, but Matilda eventually waltzed away from her humble beginnings.
Nobody asked the Indigenous folk whether this was OK. Of course they didn’t. Empathy and compassion hadn’t been invented in colonial times.
But what struck me was a particular bit of commentary, pointed out by The Daily Sceptic, from everyone’s favourite non-partisan and objective source of truth, The Guardian.
Australia would either write another chapter in the history of reconciliation in this country, or fail a significant empathy test. Tonight, we’ve failed the empathy test.
The author of the piece on TDS goes on to make a very pertinent observation :
They really think the referendum was an empathy test. Incredibly, zero conception that one might have empathy but disagree on the specifics of the model proposed.
This seems to be a very common characteristic of today’s social environment :
If you don’t believe/do this very specific set of things, you’re a BAD person.
If you don’t do the whole BLM raise fist thing, or kneel in supplication and remorse - you’re a racist
If you don’t support everyone having random pronouns - you’re a bigot
If you don’t think a transwoman is a woman - you’re a really hateful person
If you think the solutions proposed for The Climate™ are bonkers - you’re a science denying conspiracy loon
If you think a country should defend its borders - well, you might as well get that pillowcase on your head now, you vile KKK supporter
If you don’t get this experimental goo stabbed in your arm - you aren’t worthy of participating in society, or being treated for any illness
If you think Trump is OK - well you’re a fucking domestic terrorist and a real Threat To Democracy™
This kind of thinking is more religious in nature than anything else - how many wars have been fought, and people killed, because one group of people argued about the specific meaning of a bit of text?
We’ve seen a very good example of this ever since Saint George of The Fentanyl™ became a Holy and Revered figure. It’s not enough to simply abhor racism as most white people in the ‘west’ actually do. No, you have to stop “taking up black spaces”, you have to “amplify non-white voices”, you have to “do the work” and your job, as a white person, is simply to believe anything a black person tells you about the issue of race.
If you don’t do all this extra weird stuff - you’re just a racist cunt.
If you don’t think chopping the tits off an adolescent girl is a bloody wonderful thing to do - well, then, you’re just wanting them to die, aren’t you? How could you not be overjoyed at those oh so affirming chest scars? The best method of suicide prevention ever invented.
There is, in woke circles, one and only one way to demonstrate your “empathy” and “compassion” - and that’s to swallow the whole load (and try not to gag).
Empathy and compassion, the woke versions of these things, are only reserved for those who think exactly like they do. Everyone else is some kind of Nazi, Fascist, Bigot, Phobey thing.
There is, for example, zero true empathy for someone like J.K. Rowling because she disagreed with one of the fundamental woke tenets. The level of genuine hatred and vitriol directed at JKR because of the wholly unremarkable, and actually very compassionate, things she wrote is quite something to see. JKR, in the woke “mind”, does not deserve any empathy or compassion or consideration.
There is no empathy at all reserved for anyone who gets themselves popped into the “oppressor” class. And how we have seen this in action over the last week, sadly. Universities who were absolutely crystal clear in their condemnation of certain supposedly white things1 following St George’s death, even to the point of describing their own institutions as suffering from terrible “systemic racism”, were tying themselves in knots trying to win the gold medal at the World Equivocation Games when it came to issuing statements about Hamas and Israel.
Holly Mathnerd recently wrote about this, about how this “oppressor/oppressed” framing has really done a number on people’s minds and ways of thinking. I think she’s right.
The basic woke rule is the following :
Oppressed? : lots of empathy, special treatment, accommodations etc
Oppressor? : fuck off and die
In their weird way of looking at the world pretty much everything about the ‘west’ is an oppression of one kind or another - and these all “intersect” to create an all-encompassing invisible web of torture for anyone outside of the oppressor class.
But, as that bonzer bloke might have said;
In a recent piece Frank & Louie highlighted the university Provost who described Higher Education as having been defined by whiteness, for example.
In the past before social media the only way to have a printed, really public rant was to write to a newspaper and be published in someone’s column. No one read it and so there was not much in the way of feedback, which is why it was a mere handful compared to todays flood, for example my pointless words here. 😂🤔. Now with social media the effort involved in sharing your opinion and if a leftist, sharing your mental aberrations is so easy and much more satisfying with the likes and comments in reaction. I wonder if there are more leftist nut jobs now than before or is it just more apparent? Has the mental state of humanity degraded massively or do we just see them more easily. I personally think it’s both. Leftists do seem to have gone exponentially nuts at the same time as technology has made it possible for them to vomit their insanity all over the public square.
What your very witty take-down of all these wokey-wokey absurdities brings into sharp focus is that we are not really only talking about serious grown-up people; people with any coherent philosophy of any kind. What we are also up against is an epidemic of Spoilt Brats - drunk on their own self-righteousness. Brats in schools, brats in politics, brats in administrative positions and - above all - brats in 'higher' education. And a large proportion of these brats are supported, one way or another, at the tax-payer's expense. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-virtue-signallers