[WS:] Professional wrestlers have been impersonating vile characters for entertainment effect too. Do you really believe that public discourse and politics in a democracy (which Aristotle considered a deviant system that reduced discourse the the lowest possible denominator) is anything but forms of professional wrestling?
Wojtek
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Bill Bartlett
<billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28/bolt-found-guilty-of-breaching-discrimination-act/3025918
>
> Excerpt :
>
> [...]
> Bolt was being sued in the Federal Court by nine Aboriginal people including
> former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark, academic Professor Larissa Behrendt,
> activist Pat Eatock, photographer Bindi Cole, author Anita Heiss, health
> worker Leeanne Enoch, native title expert Graham Atkinson, academic Wayne
> Atkinson, and lawyer Mark McMillan.
>
> They alleged two articles written by Bolt for his employer, the Herald and
> Weekly Times, implied light-skinned people who identified as Aboriginal did
> so for personal gain.
> [...]
>
> This is interesting. It Only a civil case, so unfortunately Bolt can't be
> imprisoned as right wing race haters should be.
>
> Bolt is a right wing opinion whore, but the interesting thing is, I doubt a
> lot of the stuff he comes out with is even his genuine belief, but merely
> made-up stuff he spouts to promote himself. He has a TV show sponsored by
> the deranged right-wing millionairess Gina Reinhart (Who owns a big share of
> the TV station it is on) so I figure he tailors his rants to appeal to his
> wealthy sponsor(s).
>
> In other words, as you often find, what this opinion whore is accusing
> others of (that aborigines identify as such solely for personal gain) is
> what he's guilty of himself. (Identifying as a right wing champion, solely
> for personal gain.) That is so common its isn't funny. (How many homophobes
> turn out to be repressed homosexuals.)
>
> But championing racist views is crossing the line. He ought to be imprisoned
> until he recants. Sadly that is not on the table. Sorry, but my libertarian
> instincts draw the line at scum like him
>
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell tas
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