Conservatives love to lament that “you can’t say anything any more”. That could be amended to “you can’t say anything any more without risking unintended and possibly life-ruining consequences”.
. During a conversation panel at the event, he called for higher unemployment and implied workers had become lazy. He said the jobless rate needed to jump by 40 or 50 per cent and we “need to see pain in the economy”.
The comments elicited strong eyebrow-raises among us serfs, went viral around the world, caused a social media pile-on and were condemned by unionists. They also caused me to wonder if this was a man who had ever had to juggle a deadline with a sick kid. I would put money on no. The comments were widely reported as Langton labelling all No voters racist, and much howling ensued. As she, Langton was trying to say that “the claims being made by the No case are based in racism and stupidity – and appeal to racism and stupidity”. She said the No campaign was trying to frighten voters into adopting “highly racist and stupid beliefs”.James Brickwood
Some Australians are racist. Others may harbour prejudice or be open to emotive racist arguments. It’s safe to say such people would be easily persuaded by arguments which appeal to emotion and play on fears about Aboriginal people. Elsewhere in our papers this week,Loading This is frustrating for employers, and represents a quiet revolutionary shift for workers. No industrial action was required to win this great new flexibility. Just a pandemic.
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