Fear of Islam has been cynically weaponised for electoral gain. And Islamist violence has killed hundreds of thousands, most of them Muslims. Both are true. Neither cancels the other. New essay maps where distraction ends and threat begins.
So,so very true. Colonists destroying the evidence.
Weak minded fear arguments attract weak, simple people. Stems from a myth that colonialism is a good thing.π€¦ββοΈ
"Once a people has been defined out of the legal order, nearly anything can be done to them, and nearly anything can be said about them."
BLAK AND BLACK
Tied to the Fence - Bakchos
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Pedal Power
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#ClimateAction #airquality #health #wellbeing #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
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When a legal fiction declares a continent empty, its people become obstacles, and nearly anything can be said about them.
"Tied to the Fence": why racism against Indigenous Australians is so cheap, and why the silence of bystanders keeps it that way.
BLAK AND BLACK
Laws that are unethical are instruments of power, not fairness.
WHY PHAM'S DECISIONS MATTER | The Ethics of Decision-Making
Alice Springs, 1986: Pope John Paul II said Aboriginal songs, stories and languages "must never be lost."
Forty years on, populist politics leans on othering to cover for a lack of ideas. New essay on why culture matters and why the learning must run both ways
BLAK AND BLACK
Section 9(j) required her to disclose that interest and step away from the decisions. She did neither.
WHY PHAM'S DECISIONS MATTER
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Conflict of interest is not corruption. Failing to declare one is where the problem starts. Our new essay applies Section 9(j) of the ACT Public Sector Management Act to Tu Pham's decisions about Mark Mullins in late 2003 and early 2004.
BLAK AND BLACK
The Homer we revere is therefore the written residue of an oral tradition, and the classics shelf rests on a debt to unwritten memory.
SONGS AS ARCHIVE β’ HOMER AND THE COMING OF WRITING
Zionism & One Nation is a form of racism. Being afraid of the diversity of cultures is racism. Blaming new Australians for the high cost of rent & housing is the most ridiculous of arguments. Wealthy & greedy people use these distracting narratives, so we fight amongst ourselves, it divide us.
BLAK AND BLACK
Literacy changes how a tradition is kept, but a society without it was not a society without history.
SONGS AS ARCHIVE β’ THE STANDARD WE APPLY
Pauline Hanson, One Nation and others on the far rightβ¦
Three years on from 7 October: the Hamas atrocities and the scale of harm to Gaza's children belong in the same ledger. UN figures put children killed above 20,000 and injured above 44,000, against about 800 killed in Ukraine. Nuremberg promised one standard for all
BLAK AND BLACK
What distinguishes the two cases is not the quality of the evidence but an assumption, rarely stated, that writing is the only legitimate technology of memory.
SONGS AS ARCHIVE β’ THE STANDARD WE APPLY
Oral song is not "unsubstantiated myth." Nobody says that of Homer, whose poems are the written residue of a tradition sung for centuries before anyone wrote it down. On Parry, the guslari and Aboriginal song as history: "Songs as Archive"
Gaza's health ministry has recorded more than 74,243 Palestinians killed and a further 175,232 injured since the war began. Of those injured, thousands have been maimed, with more than 6,000 people undergoing amputations.
Minns Fashion Police An Irish clover gets praise in the streets, A French beret earns approving tweets. Greek funny shoes, a kippah pass through, No fuss, no alarms, nothing to doβ But Palestinian dress? Call the fashion police!
