I write a lot about fascism in Australia, with a particular focus on fascism inside the Australian union movement and Australian Catholic communities including:
Note my paternal family background is Catholics from Northern Ireland and my maternal family is from NZ.
Podcast arriving later this year on how Australia got into its current crises, starting from the beginning.
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Location | 5th Circle of Hell |
| Political Views | Social Anarchist |
| Podcast | Coming 2023 |
A couple of months ago, hot takes on "AI" were all the rage. I abstained, because I didn't have anything to say that hadn't been said just fine by someone else.
Then I had an insight that I haven't seen elsewhere. So I wrote an essay -- late to the party, but I hope valuable all the same.
It's about #AI and #language as it relates to #psychology and #disability, especially #Deaf and #ActuallyAutistic experiences.
https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for
Despite the claims from landlords + politicians, there is no economic consensus against rent controls.
🏠 According to @tom_a_baker (@AucklandUni), a more nuanced debate would help – given the scale of NZ’s housing affordability problem. https://theconversation.com/not-all-rent-control-policies-are-the-same-the-green-party-proposal-deserves-an-open-minded-debate-209039?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1690528427
Despite the claims of landlords and politicians, there is no economic consensus against rent controls. A more nuanced debate would help, given the scale of New Zealand’s housing affordability problem.
If you're a Green and want to push back against bigotry in the Victorian branch then start here.
Then show up to branch meetings, vote in party elections and stand for positions in the party bureaucracy
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14m453klXjyxLjlBdINMhfFHRoakkskkaisEWrTdPvZE/edit?usp=drivesdk
Open Letter: Protect the AGV From Transphobic Ideologies Sign on here. Members of the Australian Greens Victoria (AGV) with a history of transphobia including L[redacted] and Cr R[redacted] have created and circulated a document called the “Docklands Declaration” on 23 July 2023. This “Declarat...
I've created a Google sheet with everything you need to pressure ALP MPs on Jobseeker including:
- Electorate Information
- Unemployment Statistics by electorate
- Politicians email, socials and phone numbers
- The location of their electoral offices
- Whether they have signed the ACOSS letter
If this would be useful to you, you can find this below.
3/ Some other interesting data points include
-Views on violent hierarchy. Let's use smacking kids as a proxy. We are a clear link correlation between anti-trans views and support for snacking children.
- We've all heard the TERF slur of trans activists being porn addicts, well unfortunately for them there's no correlation with views on trans rights and porn consumption.
10/ What have we learned?
Women overwhelmingly support trans rights, men are supportive but lag behind. Feminism is correlated with support for trans rights.
I think this polling is sufficient that the greens should be auditing their membership.
You can see the full data here
2/ What about women and men by political affiliation?
This is extremely valuable information because it's strong circumstantial evidence of branch stacking inside the Greens.
We shouldn't see so many (or frankly any) transphobic councillors with numbers like these.
State and territory polling is less positive on the question "Are there more than two genders?"
Queensland and the NT have slight pluralities against. Vic and the ACT are majorities in favour. The rest have pluralities in favour.
Gender Self-ID on the other hand shows clear majorities in every single State and Territory. NT is particularly interesting given the sharp differences on polling.
Let's take a look at the rural urban divide or lack thereof. Although we do see a shift as we get further from the city there's a MUCH greater divide between men and women over these issues. We've got to stop talking about the country as if they are backwards hicks.
Self-ID. Majorities in favour regardless of so called rural urban divides. Women continue to show stronger support but plurality of rural men support. This is further circumstantial evidence of green branch stacking given transphobic greens councillors are in the inner city.
So what about feminists? Let's use support for abortion and support for "traditional" family values as a proxy.
Predictably we see that values aligned with feminism, such as opposition to "traditional values" and support for abortion strongly correlate with support for trans rights.
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