Happy Australia Day!

[icyfroth]

All very low-key this year, and who knows if it will be celebrated at all in the years ahead, the way efforts are being ramped up to bring it down.

Still, it's a typical blazing hot blue sky like nowhere else in the world, the crickets are chirping and someone even had their  mowers going this morning.

The radio is playing traditionally Aussie songs, like "True Blue" by John Williamson, and "I still call Australia Home" , by Peter Allan. "I Come From a Land Down Under", by Men at Work.

My favourite has always been "I am Australian", by the Seekers.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Icyfroth wrote: 'Cancel culture is a social media media movement as you can gather from the link I sent you. I don't know that they carry banners, as such'.

Hang on a minute Way back in #21 in resonse to my post querying the point of Australia Day, you said: It's unifying. Or it was. Until the activists decided to use the Aboriginal cause to piggyback their agenda on'.

In #24 I asked; 'Which agenda' are you referring to'? and you replied;  'I was thinking more the Cancel Culture crowd'.

So, my queston remains: If this 'crowd' you are referring to don't carry banners or shout slogans how do you know they are piggybacking on the Aboriginal cause and not simply agreeing with and supporting that cause.

[icyfroth]

How do you know they're not?

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@icyfroth wrote:
How do you know they're not?

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I don't - whch is why, unlike you, I have not leapt to conclusions and made unsubstantiated assumptions.

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:
How do you know they're not?

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I don't - whch is why, unlike you, I have not leapt to conclusions and made unsubstantiated assumptions.

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But you were quite happy ask this question about neo-Nazis in the Grampians, as if they were somehow linked to this Australia Day discussion.

TGSE: "Which culure were this mob trying to cancel, and which 'cause' were they piggybacking on?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-28/anger-over-neo-nazis-chanting-camping-in-the-grampians/130976...

Why is that?

[the_great_she_elephant]

Because the neoNazis were waving banners, chanting slogans and proclaiming their agenda to the world.

[lyhargr_0]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Because the neoNazis were waving banners, chanting slogans and proclaiming their agenda to the world.

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And if the media had left them alone and NOT given them any air time, eventually they would just fade away  ........... As it was, they received ALL media attention they were seeking

[the_great_she_elephant]

@lyhargr_0 wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Because the neoNazis were waving banners, chanting slogans and proclaiming their agenda to the world.

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And if the media had left them alone and NOT given them any air time, eventually they would just fade away  ........... As it was, they received ALL media attention they were seeking

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True, but a group behaving ike that would be pretty hard to ignore.

[lyhargr_0]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

@lyhargr_0 wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Because the neoNazis were waving banners, chanting slogans and proclaiming their agenda to the world.

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And if the media had left them alone and NOT given them any air time, eventually they would just fade away  ........... As it was, they received ALL media attention they were seeking

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True, but a group behaving ike that would be pretty hard to ignore.

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Not if you try hard enough, they weren't breaking any Law .............. 

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Because the neoNazis were waving banners, chanting slogans and proclaiming their agenda to the world.

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Oh Really.

And what has that to do with this discussion about Australia Day?

And what makes you think the cancel culture ppl, or  BLM mob, or GetUp crowd or whatever left-wing or "woke" group currently outraged,  are entitled to wave banners and march in protest against Australia Day, a perfectly legitimate and time-honoured tradition, march against Covid restrictions, that's all ok, but  a handful of ppl in a remote mountains are somehow a danger to Australain society?

Next thing on the outrage agenda will be ANZAC day again, I bet.

[the_great_she_elephant]

You're right of course, they weren't breaking the law. As for whether or not it is hard to ignore them, well, I can only speak for myself - and as I  spent the first 3 years of my life sleeping in air raid shelters and my dad spent those same 3 years in a Nazi POW camp, perhaps I'm more sensitive than most.