Patriotism and White Fragility on Your ABC

Well well well.

Earlier this week, ABC Chair Kim Williams delivered a speech at the National Press Club. This is how Gerard Henderson described it on his Media Watch Dog Blog:

Media Watch Dog has mentioned in the past that your man Williams sometimes gives the impression that he has recently swallowed a copy of Roget’s International Thesaurus. You be the judge.

Yes. There was much coverage of his highfalutin, dilettenteish criticism of Joe Rogan. References to Pravda and all. But it was this paragraph from Williams’ speech that caught Sparty’s eye:

We need to believe in ourselves, express ourselves with confidence, be creative in our response to big problems, have a set of common beliefs that can bind us together as citizens regardless of where we live, what colour collar we wear to work, what our culture, gender or family origin may be. All the ingredients of what we used to call "patriotism". It's an old-fashioned term, but one I like.

Interesting. A common belief.

Not 12 hours following Williams’ speech, ABC fan fav David Marr hosted this segment on Late Night Live - Whiteness, race and Australian culture.

Now Sparty does have the transcript but, what a piece of "journalism" this was, including quoting as a credible source, the discredited "academic" and crackpot Robin DiAngelo.

Yes Chairman Kim. Patrotism.

Binding citizens together.

White fragility.

Matt Walsh has recent produced and stared in a brilliant movie called Am I Racist which takes to town the race hustlers and grifters who make a living off fools. If you can get your hands on it, watch it. The trailer is gold also.

But this is Walsh taking Diangelo to town for realising, only at age 34 apparently, that she was white. Perhaps she thought she was black before that:

Here is a trailer for Walsh’s moving. It is a must view. 5 thumbs up from Spartacus.

Don’t laugh. This stuff happens all over Australia too. The griftocracy is here also. And your tax dollars and your ABC is a key agent.