Australia’s censorship law 18C: Too weak, too strong, and maybe soon to be found unconstitutional

Australia’s censorship law 18C: Too weak, too strong, and maybe soon to be found unconstitutional. By Paul Kelly in The Australian.

Too weak:

Prro-Palestinian demonstrations demanding the elimination of Israel “From the river to the sea” along with calls to “Globalise the intifada” — encouraging the murders of Jews — are permitted and apparently beyond the reach of our laws. A good and decent society is broken under such inconsistency and hypocrisy. …

Section 18C is a bad law that has many defenders. … Sadly, it is an article of faith for the Labor Party. …

Too strong:

Hanson’s comment that Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi should pack her bags and “piss off back to Pakistan”, while impolite, is deemed to be illegal in Australia. …

The law proscribes race-based speech likely to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate”, with its critics saying the bar is set far too low. Former Liberal attorney-general George Brandis branded the provision a “grotesque limitation” on free speech and invoked George Orwell to say it was a device to channel how people thought. …

Former NSW Supreme Court chief justice Jim Spigelman said: “The freedom to offend is an integral component of freedom of speech. There is no right not to be offended. I am not aware of any international human rights instrument, or national anti-discrimination statute in another liberal democracy, that extends to conduct that is merely offensive.” He said “offend” and “insult” impinged on free speech in a way “humiliate” and “intimidate” did not.

Former human rights commissioner Sev Ozdowski said a threshold at “offend” was too low and contributed to distrust. …

But 18C may be be about to be found to be unconstitutional:

After Queen Elizabeth died, Faruqi, in a classic insight into the Greens, said: “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.”

An angry Hanson responded: “Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.”

Having lost two cases in the Federal Court, Hanson said she was going to the High Court to protect free speech. Abbott was supportive. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was true to form: he played the race card: “If the Liberal Party thinks there should be more racist things they’re allowed to say, tell us what they are.”

But constitutional lawyer Anne Twomey criticised the Federal Court and has raised doubts about the constitutional validity of section 18C, saying the treaty on which it relies, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, does not seem to include the low-level conduct that 18C outlaws. The treaty deals with far more serious offences. Constitutional lawyer Louise Clegg said in The Spectator last month she believed the High Court would invalidate section 18C.

A victory for Hanson would be a remarkable event, securing the victory the Coalition had long unsuccessfully sought. Hanson would become a political heroine. It would be a devastating blow for Labor — being exposed for running repeated campaigns attacking the critics for promoting racism only to finish up humiliated by relying for decades on a provision found to be unconstitutional. …

Not working out the way they hoped, because we have more than one culture now:

Federal Court judge Ian Jackman said the nation’s current crisis over social cohesion and antisemitism should provoke an “intellectual stocktaking” … “It would not have occurred to Australians in the 1990s that other Australians would abuse their freedom of political communication to publicly intimidate and vilify Jews … The idea that that might have taken place on the campus of the University of Sydney for weeks on end was simply unthinkable. Back then, we associated that behaviour with Nazi thugs in the Germany of the 1930s.”

Isn’t 18C just a tool the ruling class selectively enforces to suppress its critics?

Like the Colosseum, the streaming platform and the media feeds are tools of social control

Like the Colosseum, the streaming platform and the media feeds are tools of social control. By Krzysztof Szczawinski.

It is no accident that athletes and singers are being idolized. It is a tool of social control.

Let’s be fair first. Celebrity culture does something real and not entirely negative: it gives young people a path that has the appearance of being accessible. The boy from the poor neighborhood who watches the footballer and thinks — I could do that. The aspiration is genuine, the effort it produces is real, and the meritocracy of the playing field is one of the last functioning meritocracies we have. This is worth acknowledging.

But…

But the real hero of our world is the entrepreneur. The person who sees a problem, builds a solution, risks everything, fails, rebuilds, and produces something that didn’t exist before — something that employs people, solves problems, improves lives.

This is the most consequential human activity available in peacetime. It is also the least celebrated. No stadium. No album. No algorithm promoting it to your feed.

Kids today should have posters of Elon Musk in their rooms. Not because he is perfect — he is not — but because he represents something the footballer and the pop star cannot: the proof that building something extraordinary is no longer the privilege of the connected, the credentialed, or the well-born. A South African immigrant with a physics degree and a maniacal work ethic built the most important rocket company in history, the most consequential social media platform in the world, and the electric vehicle that forced every car manufacturer on earth to change direction. The path is real. The path is open. The path requires everything you have. That is a better poster than any footballer.

The ruling class uses bread and circuses, celebrities and sport, to distract the masses while they get on and rule:

The Roman citizen who once governed the republic received, in compensation, bread and circuses. The crowd’s attention was managed toward the arena and away from what actually mattered. The gladiator was famous, desired, and owned. He had no power. The crowd worshipped him and went home. The emperor decided everything.

 

 

The algorithm is the modern arena management system. It selects for what produces engagement – the immediate, the visceral, the emotionally legible. The footballer’s goal is instantaneous and universally understood. The entrepreneur’s breakthrough is slow, complex, and requires context to appreciate. The algorithm is indifferent to the builder — and indifference, at scale, produces invisibility.

Woke nastiness:

The Frankfurt School completed the mechanism. By attacking the concept of what is worth admiring — declaring that excellence is a power construct, that the hierarchy between the important and the entertaining is itself oppression — it removed the cultural framework that would otherwise orient attention toward what matters. If nothing is genuinely more admirable than anything else, the footballer and the person curing disease are equivalent. And the footballer has better marketing.

In the shadows:

Meanwhile, in the shadows, entrepreneurs and researchers backed by AI are building the actual future. Defeating diseases. Building rockets. Rewriting energy. Quietly. Without a stadium.

The civilization that built the Parthenon, the Sistine Chapel, and the moon landing understood that some things are more important than others – and organized its attention accordingly. The civilization that has forgotten this distinction fills the arena, watches the gladiator, goes home, and calls it culture.

The Colosseum is the ancestor of the streaming platform, an ancient institution of Roman control:

It held fifty thousand people. Admission was free. The shows were funded by the state. The emperors who built and maintained it understood something that every administrator of mass distraction has understood since: the crowd that is entertained is the crowd that is not asking questions. …

[Its] function: the systematic provision of spectacle to a population that was progressively stripped of political power.

The Roman citizen who had once voted in the assemblies, served in the legions, and participated in the governance of the republic now received, in compensation, bread and circuses. …

The thumbs up, thumbs down decision — the crowd’s power over the defeated gladiator’s life — was the Colosseum’s most sophisticated political invention. It gave the crowd the sensation of power without its substance. You could decide whether a man lived — but had no say in taxation, war, grain supply or succession. You had thumbs. The managed democracy — participation without real power — is two thousand years old. …

 

 

When Maximus asks, “Are you not entertained?” he is exposing the mechanism with contempt. The crowd cheers louder. This is not stupidity. It is the rational response of people given no other way to participate.

The Colosseum is the ancestor of

  1. the streaming platform,
  2. the social media feed,
  3. the algorithmic content delivery system, and
  4. the 24-hour news cycle.

Each one provides spectacle calibrated to the crowd’s appetite, substitutes consumption for participation, and generates in the audience the sensation of engagement without the substance of power. The thumbs have migrated from the arena to the screen. The gladiators have become influencers. The emperor has become the algorithm. The bread is delivered by app.

And here we are.

Women hold all top leadership positions in Iceland

Women hold all top leadership positions in Iceland. By Alda Sigmundsdóttir, in Letter from Iceland, in April 2026.

Last week a woman was elected president of the University of Iceland, which means that women now occupy every major public (and private) office in this country.

 

Icelandic PM, Kristrún Frostadóttir

 

We are talking about:

The president
The prime minister
The heads of all three parties that make up the Icelandic government
The mayor of Reykjavík
The heads of the five parties that make up the Reykjavík city council
The bishop
The presidents of all universities in Iceland (seven in total)
The Commissioner of Police
The Director of Public Prosecutions (Attorney General)

Equality at last 🙂 No discrimination going on here.

What Young Men Face Today

What Young Men Face Today. By Crier in the Wilderness.

It recently came to my attention that some of you don’t understand why a large number of young men have become shut-ins, often addicts, without career or romantic prospects. The term used for this now is “NEET.” That is, they are Not in Education, Employment or Training. Men described as NEETS are those who were once simply called slackers, basement-dwellers, and so on. …

The author:

I’m a young man, somewhere between a Millennial and a Gen Z. I’m Christian, had good grades in school, worked hard, and finished college. I was raised well, too. …

I can’t use my degree in a helping profession, which supposedly needed more men, because it went woke. Now, I’m on my fourth career.

I have been passed over for multiple positions because I was a man instead of a woman. The people who passed me over admitted to it.

I finally gave up and started a business, but artificial intelligence and inflation undercut me. Some of those who helped me to establish my business even told me they were hoping to mentor a woman instead. In addition, even some of my customers wanted to work with a female-owned business….

I’m now a skilled tradesman. I live on my own, with no debt and money in the bank… but I have a non-zero chance of dying at work, and overwhelming overtime, which I can’t get out of. For the privilege, I had to be turned away at the door by multiple other trades, because they refused to work with some college boy.

Finding a woman:

By the way, women consider blue collar jobs trashy, no matter how well they pay, so there’s a distinct possibility that I continue to work massive overtime for nothing. They turn me down when I ask them out on dates, and then say there are no good men nowadays.

To put this another way, I gave up my twenties to extreme working hours that didn’t help. I’m now doing the same thing to my thirties. It will be decades before all the progressive hiring managers (usually women) retire or die, so there’s no way out.

My peers have watched me give up everything I enjoy, dramatically lose weight from skipping meals, get sick from overwork, and fall asleep in church, just to escape the NEET lifestyle. I’m not a role model. I’m a dire warning not to try. I almost had to give up writing this essay because I have no time off. …

Women who got out of your neighborhood, using affirmative action scholarships, think they are too good for you. You never confide in your elders because the last time you did it, they said you should just work harder. If you can’t deal with this lifestyle, or don’t get lucky, you end up as a NEET. But it’s still your fault that you’re a loser. …

Affirmative action:

A young man today has come of age in a world that does not care about him. In the wake of the Sexual Revolution and especially affirmative action, men get isolation and discrimination, which is called “rugged individualism,” while women get extra help, which is called “progress.” Men all know the score. Even the TV shows portray all the men as stupid slackers, and we grew up with them!

If you are blue collar, you grew up without any male role models, including a father, and went to work at menial or retail jobs straight out of high school. You either become a NEET, or get a construction job that physically destroys you….

If you are white collar, you grew up without any male role models, except maybe a father, and have student debt. It may have collected interest because of job supply issues in your industry, or because you graduated into the Pandemic layoffs. In addition, companies now announce “ghost jobs,” or fake job listings, in order to keep up appearances. In secret, they are conducting AI-based layoffs and cancelling new positions. You end up underemployed in retail, because a trade might reject you as a job-stealer.

What other people think:

Because of the ghost-jobs, your parents think there’s still work out there, but there isn’t, and may never be….

Women who competed with you for work (and won, with fewer qualifications) think you aren’t good enough for them. … But it’s still your fault that you’re a loser.

If you’re wondering whom your daughters and granddaughters will marry, many won’t. The young men they could have matched with were discriminated against for so long, we can’t all catch up in time. Most young men will think, but never say, that you should worry about us for our own sake… not just because young women are missing out for once.

The older mother episodes:

White collar or blue, it all ends like this: A young man, whether he is a NEET or not, always ends up at an event with some older people. After everyone has had a few, some middle-aged woman decides instead to complain about kids nowadays.

She declares loudly in front of him that young men nowadays are pathetic and disgusting. She lists her single daughter’s many accomplishments in university and then white-collar work. She never mentions how her daughter got women’s scholarships. She forgets that her daughter was raised conservative, and was taught that affirmative action was wrong, then accepted it in five-figure sums.

The young men aren’t good enough for her daughter, she continues, because they can’t get a real job. Of course, her daughter got this young man’s job through affirmative action. The female hiring manager may have rejected that young man’s application to the same position (this happened to me with a girl I just met).

Sometimes, these unhappy mothers put down their cocktail, look you in the eye, and say, in mixed company, “You aren’t good enough for my daughter.”

This has happened to me twice. Do you understand now?

Conclusion:

Society didn’t just passively abandon young men. It actively went out of its way to destroy them, and succeeded.

Brad Wilcox:

You cannot understand this cultural and political moment unless you reckon with how lonely, disconnected, and “demoralized” a very large minority of young men in America have become.

Roughly 4-in-10 young men aged 18-29 feel like failures, report chronic loneliness, are absent from religious, civic, or volunteer life, and lose themselves in digital worlds of porn, gaming, and gambling. This is what the digital revolution has wrought: a generation of young men adrift, disengaged, and drifting–too often bereft of connections to real people and real institutions in the real world.

A reader writes:

Western women appear to have destroyed society from within, because they’ve been allowed to. The last part is extremely important: they’ve been allowed to do this whereas previously they weren’t allowed to feminize society Their political influence was restricted.

Two key parts to this are:

1. Suicidal empathy and one of its consequences: mass third world immigration.

2. An insistence that they be given equality with men, which is code for being given preference over men whenever it suits them (highly-paid office jobs, yes; down coal mines, no).

Babies who grew up with strict sugar limits saw less disease, including cancer, in later years and aged more slowly

Babies who grew up with strict sugar limits saw less disease, including cancer, in later years and aged more slowly. By Peter Dockrill at Science Alert.

Sugar rationing [in the UK] ended abruptly in September 1953, after which average consumption levels quickly doubled.

By focusing on the 1951–1956 period straddling the cut-off, the researchers were able to compare the adult health of babies who spent their first 1,000 days (from conception to the age of two) under sugar rationing with babies who were born directly after and did not experience the limits….

Previous studies have shown the sugar-rationed babies face lower chronic disease risks, along with lower chances of developing Alzheimer’s, and they seem to enjoy better cardiovascular health. …

The new study [shows] the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were 69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives. They also saw reduced incidence of prostate cancer (52 percent lower), lung cancer (41 percent lower), rectal cancer (40 percent lower), and breast cancer (36 percent lower).

The sugar-rationed babies also tended to show longer telomeres – the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect our genetic material, which are linked to longevity.

According to the researchers, the telomere length of the sugar-rationed babies equated to about 2.2 years less biological aging, suggesting they aged more slowly throughout their lives, enjoying better overall health than the non-sugar-rationed participants.

Another interesting finding was that the sugar-rationed babies appeared to show persistent dietary habits that lasted into adulthood, compared to their non-rationed peers.

“Rationed cohorts consume less sugar, eat smaller food quantities, and maintain healthier, more diverse diets five decades after the policy ended,” the researchers write in their paper.

Cane sugar, or indeed large amounts of any sugar, is a very recent addition to human diets. Hmmm.

Kids in the rationing period might have been going without more than sugar.

The Handmaid’s Tale was a warning about Islam

The Handmaid’s Tale was a warning about Islam.

The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1985, set in a totalitarian theocracy that replaced the United States. Following a military coup and a severe environmental crisis that caused widespread infertility, the regime enslaves fertile women, known as Handmaids, to bear children for the ruling elite.

Demonstrators dressing as handmaids are sending a visual warning that women’s rights, particularly reproductive autonomy, are under severe threat and that society risks sliding into a dystopian future where women are reduced to their reproductive capacity. The costume, featuring red cloaks and white bonnets, symbolizes state control over women’s bodies and serves as a stark protest against legislation restricting abortion and other women’s rights

Brendan Gutenschwager:

Demonstrators dressed as handmaids from the series “The Handmaid’s Tale” out near Minneapolis City Hall today

 

 

The obvious riposte, which apparently escapes lefties:

 

 

The irony is incredible.

They dress up as Handmaid’s Tale characters to warn America about Christianity…

Meanwhile, many actual Islamist governments enforce laws controlling women’s dress, marriage, sexuality and public behavior.

Maybe protest the real thing instead of cosplaying the fictional version.

So imagine my surprise and laughter when I discovered this yesterday from Gavin McInnes:

Crazier still: [The Handmaid’s Tale] WAS written about Islam. Atwood was disgusted by what the Muslims were doing to women during the Iranian revolution [in 1979] and she imagined that happening here.

The left dispute the point, naturally, claiming Atwood wrote it about Christianity. But other virtue-signalling lies account for the confusion:

After 9/11 and during the backlash to the Canadian Press’ “War on the Burqa” campaign (around 2006) [Atwood] rescinded her previous statements and claimed it had always been about radical Christianity instead.

So, the Handmaid’s tale is a warning about what would happen if Islam took over America.

Could it happen?

Peggy Flanagan, Lt. Governor of Minnesota, is on the left

 

Big picture:

The approaching debt monster poses a greater threat than global war

The approaching debt monster poses a greater threat than global war. By Alexander Downer in The Australian.

By global standards, Australian debt isn’t alarming. Federal government debt is only 34 per cent of GDP. Mind you, if you add state government debt as well, which amounts to about $650bn, then total government debt in Australia is a more concerning 55 per cent of GDP.

In the US, debt is more than 124 per cent of GDP; in France, 121 per cent; in Britain, about 100 per cent. Even in more fiscally responsible Germany it has blown out to 65 per cent. …

So why do we pay more interest?

In Australia’s case, the benchmark 10-year government bond yield is about 5 per cent. That is the interest rate the Australian government has to pay on its borrowings. The US rate is lower at 4.4 per cent, the British 4.6 per cent and Germany a mere 3.3 per cent.

So there is a problem. Australia needs to set the interest rate at a higher rate than comparable countries.

Indeed, what is noteworthy is that during the past four years, the interest rate on Australian government bonds has risen from 3.5 per cent in August 2022 to 5 per cent today. In other words, lenders want a higher return now because of concerns about growing government debt, the weakness of the Australian dollar and persistent inflation in Australia.

Debt repayment is already overshadowing other areas of expenditure, and it’s only growing. Worse, times have changed and people haven’t twigged yet. In the 40 years from 1982 to 2022 the trend was for decreasing interest rates, so asset prices soared (which boosted the tax take and welfare ballooned). Now we are in the other half of the Kontradieff cycle, and the trend is for rising interest rates until about 2060 or 2070.

The Australian government is spending more than $40bn a year just on servicing its debt. Add to that about $25bn a year being paid by the state and territory governments, and in total Australian governments are spending $68bn a year just financing their debt.

That is more than the federal government spends on defence, more than it spends on education, and is about 64 per cent of federal spending on health.

In the case of Britain, its government spends almost twice as much on servicing debt as it spends on defence. …

Well, yes:

The moral of this story is that all governments, including our own, need to stop spending more than they earn. The populist passion for expanding welfare entitlements and diverting resources into building windmills is slowly strangling our economies. And if debt continues to grow, we could confront a global financial crisis.

Asset prices and welfare are going to shrink in real terms (relative to wages), as interest rates rise, for the next few decades.

Or the paper currency system will blow up altogether in an inflationary storm à la Germany 1922, but surely our ruling class wouldn’t be that irresponsible.

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won.

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. By Peachy Keenan.

They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well.

They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer.

They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat.

Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised. …

We abolished or degraded beauty standards, body size standards, judgement, shame, “unwed mothers,” male-dominated workplaces, the male gaze, Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Playboy, Men’s Magazines, cheerleaders, supermodels, heteronormativity, and monogamy. Any unwanted touch or glance is prosecutable as rape or assault.

We even made it so inclusive that anyone can be a woman just by declaration. …

Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, you don’t even have to stay female if you don’t want to! …

The list is endless. Will a list of new demands be published soon?

 

 

Vosine:

It’s a stereotypic female trope to make unreasonable requests in order to test your social dominance. They become very unhappy when you fail the test by actually giving them the unreasonable thing they asked for.

 

Wokeness equals feminization

Wokeness equals feminization. By Camus.

Helen Andrews puts the theory that cleanly. The patterns people call woke, social exclusion, ostracism, and reputational pressure as everyday tools of control, closely match documented differences in how female-majority groups tend to enforce norms.

Once the share of women inside an institution rises high enough, the culture shifts with it. In her view the explanation is simpler than most cultural analyses allow.

The claim is elegant and easy to test against real organizations. Demographic balance is one clear variable that tracks the change in institutional culture.

Simple theories that match the observed pattern tend to travel far.

 

 

Once institutions reach 50% women, they rarely stop there.

Helen Andrews points out that many fields keep feminizing — 52%, 55%, 56%… and in psychology, it’s now 75% female graduate students.

It’s not just women out-competing men and hitting natural balance. As environments become more feminized, they often start feeling unwelcoming to men: different conversation styles, more gossip and factions, less tolerance for certain kinds of debate.

Men quietly leave, especially those drawn to the harder, more analytical sides of the field, which accelerates the shift.

The cycle becomes self-reinforcing.

Andrews suggests the only way to reverse it may be deliberately carving out spaces where men can work and debate in a more masculine way — without apology.

It’s an uncomfortable but honest observation about how institutions quietly change character over time.

 

 

Feminized institutions are deeply alienating to men. It’s almost as if we need some men-only spaces, but the feminists don’t allow that.

Chaser, by Cremieux

When psychology professors are asked whether they’d put the truth before social equity concerns, 66.4% of male professors said yes, but fewer than half of female professors (43%) agreed.

In both groups, too many put equity before truth.

 

German nurse: “If two Arab boys need to be taken care of, I’m not sending two girls in”

German nurse: “If two Arab boys need to be taken care of, I’m not sending two girls in.” By Visegrad24.

German nurse on how security in the ERs has changed due to mass-immigration:

“If two Arab boys need to be taken care of, I’m not sending two girls in. As soon as certain surnames come up, we bring in the police.”

She speaks about the problems with clan members:

“It usually doesn’t take long for 20, 30, 40 family members to show up in front of the hospital. They have special Telegram groups where they alert each other, and they want to make their presence felt in a way that’s often aggressive: ‘We’re here; we stand by our people — and you can expect trouble if anything happens to them.’

In these circles, it’s common for the mothers and women to scream loudly and in high drama. This high noise level is a stress factor for the staff and also for the patients”

 

 

ChatGPT:

The quote in the tile comes from a German emergency nurse, identified in reports as Felix Wolf (a pseudonym), who spoke to the newspaper Die Welt in August 2026.

Wolf stated that due to security concerns and the risk of aggression from members of Arab clan families, clinics in Germany have implemented strict protocols. These include:

  • Staffing Adjustments: Ensuring that young female staff are not left alone with young male patients from these clans, typically by assigning at least one male colleague to the case.
  • Security Measures: Bringing in police immediately when certain surnames associated with clan families are identified.
  • Hospital Lockdowns: In severe cases, entire emergency rooms may be sealed off for several hours to manage potential retaliation or intimidation from large groups of family members who often arrive at the hospital.

Wolf also mentioned trying to keep colleagues with recognizably Jewish surnames away from such cases to protect them from targeted harassment. He expressed frustration that healthcare workers are forced to adapt to the behavior of violent patients rather than the other way around, and noted that discussing these demographic-specific issues often leads to accusations of racism.

Remix News:

We are increasingly dealing with injuries from shootings and stabbings in the clinics,” Wolf said….

“I haven’t worn a name tag in the emergency room for years because I don’t want to be identifiable. We take precautions: If two Arab boys need to be cared for, I don’t send in two girls, but at least one man. I also try to keep colleagues with Jewish surnames out of such a case.”

Migrant clans beat hospital staff:

After a patient died in Essen’s Elizabeth Hospital, relatives of the deceased individual beat hospital employees, resulting in minor injuries to five of them over the weekend. The incident is being classified as a case of clan crime, with the investigation focusing on grievous bodily harm and property damage.

After the family member passed away, a large crowd gathered at the hospital and began threatening hospital staff with the “power of the family.”

A nurse who delivered the news of the death was immediately attacked with “punches and kicks,” according to the police report….

The managing director of the hospital, Peter Berlin, indicated that an entire team of hospital staff fought to save the injured man’s life in an interview with German newspaper Bild.

“Despite all efforts and resuscitation attempts, the patient unfortunately died,” he stated.

The director stated that there was a “sudden attack by the patient’s relatives on the resuscitation team and other colleagues.” … The police report that the family members involved in the incident are well known for various crimes. …

The combination of workplace stress and safety concerns has led to high turnover rates among emergency care personnel, with many leaving the field within five to six years.

Very tribal.

Like the left: threats of violence and the wailing of their womenfolk.

But do the immigrants vote left?

I preferred the monoculture where all the boys were expected to be well behaved — and nearly always were. And everyone was cared for the same, regardless of ethnic group or religion. In the old monoculture, there was no beating up of hospital staff. But now the West has multiculturalism.

 

 

Australia’s middle class might abandon woke politics as they are battered by property slump, AI and soaring school fees

Australia’s middle class might abandon woke politics as they are battered by property slump, AI and soaring school fees. By Robert Gottliebsen in The Australian.

The prosperity of large portions of middle-class Australia has declined more dramatically than other sectors. The middle class did not see the blows coming and was not well prepared.

Its fall will impact Australian community, corporate and government attitudes. At the moment, One Nation is winning from the frustration.

Their wealth, which insulated them from reality and allowed them to go woke, is crumbing:

Significant sectors of the middle class in Australia have been an island of continued prosperity for many decades and, because their occupations are often at high levels in both corporate administration and government departments, they have set government and private-sector agendas on issues like gender, climate, emissions, race and education practices.

Their prosperity has enabled them to embrace ideas that were often different from other parts of the nation who now often use the term ‘woke’ to describe middle-class views.

While ‘woke’ has become a term of derision, middle-class views are genuinely and passionately held.

But the reduction in their prosperity may bring the ‘woke community’ closer to the views of ordinary Australians. …

Economic battering:

The middle class is being impacted more severely than other sectors because their residential and holiday properties are among the hardest hit; their occupations are often in areas that are in jeopardy as a result of AI; the cost of educating their children in private schools is rising sharply; and their children no longer can see a straightforward path to rewarding professional careers but are saddled with huge debts that reduce their ability to borrow from banks to buy a house. …

Most reports on suburban property markets concentrate on houses around or below the $1m to $1.5m mark, where falls are usually well below 10 per cent. The big falls taking place are in middle-class, higher-priced suburbs and are often around 20 to 30 per cent from the peak. …

Among the professions most impacted by AI are law, economics, administration, marketing, human resources and consulting – all areas where middle-class executives were used to receiving $200,000-plus salaries.

Many enterprises now have hiring freezes and such salaries in new jobs are rare, so if a person loses a $200,000-plus job, it is hard to find a replacement at that level. …

The traditional path for middle-class children has been to go to university, which leads to a well-mapped career in law, commerce, medicine, engineering, etc. These careers are still available in some areas but are becoming harder to obtain. …

Their politics might change:

That is a lot of blows at once to a segment of the population, many of whom have isolated themselves from large parts of the rest of the nation as a result of their ‘woke’ attitudes.

We saw the attitude difference between the middle class and the rest of Australia in the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum when electorates that covered middle-class suburbs like Killara, Double Bay, Bellevue Hill and Manly in Sydney, and Albert Park, Camberwell and Hawthorn in Melbourne, plus equivalents in other cities, all voted ‘Yes’. Apart from the electorates where the Greens dominated, all electorates in the rest of the nation voted ‘No’.

Perhaps most significantly, the woke live in “nice” expensive neighborhoods with few third world immigrants.

Self-identifying as autistic or neurodivergent for special privileges

Self-identifying as autistic or neurodivergent for special privileges. By Melissa Chen.

You guys realize that the leftist reaction to the Jason Arday case is going to incentivize more and more people to just “self-ID” as autistic or neurodivergent right?

Why? Because it instantly unlocks two-tier judgment. There will be massive upside to identify as “neurodivergent” and no downside. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure but this time you’re just choosing your own alibi.

No one challenges the claim, and you might even score an endorsement from figures like autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen.

The same excesses that distorted the trans movement will now come for “neurodivergence.” Increasingly, mental health status is treated as a moral free pass — permission to act like an asshole or commit crimes (see the Lindsay Clancy case).

Commenters:

It is another easy way to be a “special victim” to gain status. …

It started with race. Blacks especially were placed above reproach. Questioning motives or actions was de facto evidence of racism. Fraudsters looted government and private money at will for decades (see gov’t grift and failed charter schools in Detroit). Now its Somalians in MN. …

Almost every time a black person kills someone or does something despicable in UK their family is talking about ‘mental health problems’ …

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – Orwell’s Animal Farm. In today’s context the left is creating a society where the rule of law and moral accountability are no longer universal. …

People at all sorts of left-wing gatherings feel compelled to begin their statements with a list of their personality disorders as if they are credentials- “As a Trans, neurodivergent, climate justice advocate, I…” …

The fallout will ultimately fall on the shoulders of genuine autistic people who will gain an unfair reputation as liars and cheats. …

Indeed, it’s already happening. Virtually everyone at my workplace now claims to be neurodivergent – the new bisexual for white people. A largely unprovable, unchallengeable identity that hands them a few victim points in a hierarchy where they otherwise start with a deficit. …

Practically everyone in my wife’s older millennial friends group has a “neurodivergent” child. Many of them self-identify themselves / their spouses as “neurodivergent”. My niece says >80% of her 6th grade class gets extra time on tests for neurodivergence. …

Please find me someone trying to pass as white. It grants you absolutely nothing except being put at the bottom of the list. …

Hollywood kids are increasingly gender-divergent, because their parents have worked too hard at racial politics which, while supplying their own moral high, left their kids with fewer privileges. Now their kids need to be in some divergent groups to enjoy society’s special treatments.

 

Assassination Hate-Fest: Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk to Cheering Crowd

Assassination Hate-Fest: Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk to Cheering Crowd. By Jonathon Turley.

We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. …

What is shocking is not the utter depravity and cruelty of Piker, but the ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views. It is part of the conditioning in what I have previously called an “age of rage.”

In the video, Piker leads the crowd in the meme song “We Are Charlie Kirk” at a stop of his “Fear& LIVE” tour, including such lines as “We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name.” His co-hosts and the crowd seem to be laughing with joy. …

Hasan is wearing his now-signature Mao jacket as the young crowd and his co-hosts laugh hysterically. It is the very essence of this movement to desensitize people, particularly young people, to violence and hate. …

It allows people to hate completely and without thought to the humanity of those being hurt. What people will not admit is that they like it.

Rage is addictive, and it is contagious. Just look at the crowd in San Francisco, and you will see the addictive quality of uncut, undiluted hate:

 

Piker [has] every right to spread hate. It is protected speech just as KKK and neo-Nazi groups are allowed to promulgate their own hateful values. What is exasperating is how hatemongers on the left want to enjoy hate speech while accusing others of hate and intolerance. …

Recently the rhetoric has reached hysterical levels. Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon has compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to “modern-day slave catchers” and the government is “literally trying to kill us.” It is a narrative that allows you to speak like a Nazi while claiming to be fighting Nazis. …

Piker is reportedly raking in a fortune as are other hatemongers like Jennifer Welch. They traffic in rage to a nation of rage addicts.

It is a scene that only reaffirms the work of Kirk who sought to expose the hate and intolerance of the left, particularly on our campuses. Kirk infuriated many by challenging them to debate. There is no room for reason in an age of rage. …

Civility, and even humanity, become signs of weakness in these times. They gravitate to figures like Abdul El-Sayed who has campaigned with Piker and promises to “choke out” Republicans and refers to moderates like Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) as ogres to have their heads cut off and put on pikes.

Charlie Kirk, culturally Western, believed that truth is the most important value and would prevail. So, he went around challenging leftists for debates, and talking to leftist crowds. This was the clash of ideas, the way to settle disputes in western civilization.

But the modern left increasingly thinks like the third world, like all the world before the evolution of western civilization. They play the man, not the ball. Third world thinking, of tribalism and might makes right, is taking over our universities (“critical” thinking). So they killed Charlie Kirk.