#Lazy both-side-ism is lazy.
Why does he keep writing edgy pieces like this? Trying to stay relevant? Desperate for money (freelance fee)?
#Lazy both-side-ism is lazy.
Why does he keep writing edgy pieces like this? Trying to stay relevant? Desperate for money (freelance fee)?
And here is Waleed Aly and Scott Stevens chatting with Agnes Callard about that article. #AgnesCallard #TheMineField #ScottStevens #WaleedAly
> It begins with a righteous eagerness to write people off. And it ends much as Hannah Arendt, that great 20th-century philosopher famously observed: “The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.”
The practice of violence isn't the sole prerogative of the right wing, as there certainly have been radical left wing people who have practiced it. But guess which "side" turns to violence against *people* before *things* or *ideas*? It's not the left.
You are the worst kind of academic, Aly. The kind who uses their academic standing to promote themselves, rather than tell the truth.
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That is #Totalitarian #Censorship - moving towards Orwell's 1984.
Tangent:
#WaleedAly and #ScottStephensAU so often look hopelessly gormless.
Currently comparing their take on #GeorgeOrwell (link below) with:
"White House senior associate staff secretary #LindseyHalligan telling Smithsonian Institution secretary #LonnieBrunch the review was “about preserving trust in one of our most cherished institutions”.
#PalestineAction #RoboDebt #USPol
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/theminefield/george-orwell/6708170
The final curtain closes on THE PROJECT after 16 years
#CarrieBickmore #Channel10 #CharliePickering #DaveHughes #LisaWilkinson #Network10 #PeterHelliar #RovingEnterprises #SarahHarris #TheProject #WaleedAly
BREAKING | Channel 10 officially axes THE PROJECT after weeks of rumours
#Channel10 #GeorgieTunny #Network10 #ParamountAustralia #RovingEnterprises #SamTaunton #SarahHarris #TheProject #WaleedAly
Is it telling that #WaleedAly loves #Tourism?
Ronnie Wood Takes Center Stage tonight on THE PROJECT