Almost by definition, Labor’s identification of social cohesion as an end in and of itself corresponds with abandoning even the mildest reform agenda. Any movement for change must begin with an acknowledgement of inequality, of division, of struggle.
  • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa
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    1 month ago

    Good one. The text does a great job at presenting all the well known facts from several different political perspectives. An important reminder that when you think you agree with someone, many things go unsaid, and therefore under analysed.

    The quote underneath was the most succinct example for me,

    As Bernard Keane has noted, “Labor tries to make a virtue of supporting “social cohesion”, even while demonising pro-Palestinian protesters, cutting immigration, refusing entry to Gazans, and denouncing political organisation by Muslim voters.”

    I knew about all but the ‘demonising pro-palestian protesters’, yet summed together as they are here, these actions hit different.

    I found myself wondering if i were Muslim in Australia would I have noticed the whole as an accumulating set like this?