Andrew Bolt’s hypocrisy

Posted by Scott on Monday 20 November 2006, 12:32 pm
Categories: Education, Media, Politics  Tags: Tags: , , , ,

Never one to let a good stereotyping opportunity pass him by, Andrew Bolt has grabbed onto the age and occupation of arrested and alleged G20 rioter Akin Sari and used it to smear him as a lazy, ne’er-do-well, welfare-sucking, smash-the-state student:

Still a student at 28? A commerce student, yet at an anti-capitalist rally?

However, because he has total respect for the due process of the law and stuff Bolta chucks in this plea:

Note: Sari is entitled to the presumption of innocence. Any comments presuming he is guilty of anything will be SNIPPED.

I’m 28 and I was a university student up until two weeks ago. And what’s more, as a teacher-in-training I was clearly boning up on leftist and nature-worship ideology. As Andrew so clearly argues over and over again in his column, engaging in any sort of education or self-improvement past the age of 21 is self-indulgent and dereliction of your duty to increase the productivity of the workforce.

Long bow drawn

Posted by Scott on Sunday 19 November 2006, 4:20 pm
Categories: Politics, Society  Tags: Tags: , , , , , ,

The violent G20 protests in Melbourne this weekend have drawn vehement criticism from all corners of Australian society and I cannot strongly enough add my voice to that criticism. The mindless and aggressive morons whose underdeveloped intellect can only see the world in terms of “me” and “them” should be dealt with most vigorously by the police for their actions and intent. However, there has also been a predictable chorus from all of the usual suspects about the feral protesters being the face of “the left” and representative of everything that’s bad about “left” politics.

To understand how ridiculous this argument is we can extend the logic and postulate that neo-Nazi skinheads are the face of “the right”. I wonder how Tim, Andy and Andy feel about that?



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