Pushing back against cancel culture

In the culture wars, the tolerant left seems determined to make anyone who doesn't think like them unemployable. Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott found this out, as if he didn't know already, when the British government announced his appointment as a trade envoy. Abbott will join the UK Board of Trade, and assist the British negotiate free trade agreements. Leftists in the British media and politics attempted to stop his appointment, claiming that he is misogynistic and homophobic. 

Fortunately for Abbott, the Johnson government held its ground, and Abbott will take up his new role. It just goes to show that you need to stand up to bullies, just like in the school yard. 

https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/how_the_crazy_left_tried_to_cancel_tony_abbott

Check your privilege

Here's a brief Christian response to the question of critical race theory. In short, it is incompatible with a Biblical worldview. Christians should reject and repent of racism, but not buy into this stuff.

Dregs of the middle class

So said Australian Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, in his debate last night with Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. How noble it all sounds. The problem is that on the current trajectory that much of the English speaking world is heading on, following the wrong faith, or a particular expression of that faith, will hinder rather than help your life chances in Australia. I have a long memory. During the same sex marriage debate a couple of years ago, he explicitly labelled anyone who didn't support implementing gay marriage as “far right.” When he said that, he permanently alienated me from his party.

On top of that, at their campaign launch last Sunday, Senator Penny Wong described conservative politicians as "small men with small ideas." What a loaded statement. Once you get past the latent misandry in it, this is what it also implies. I am not a Liberal, but as a conservative male, by association, this implies that I am also a small man with small ideas.

I tune out whenever I hear Labor platitudes about equity and fairness. You do not represent my aspirations or values, nor do they matter to you. You arrogantly believe that you are wiser and more compassionate and tolerant than people like me. Furthermore, your campaign rhetoric makes it clear that you regard people like me as pariahs who have no place in modern Australia. I am a political conservative. I believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman. I do not believe in state sponsored radical gender theory. I do not believe in identity politics. I do not believe in making Australia a geographically designated safe space, in which only correct opinions and ideas are allowed to be expressed and disseminated. I do not believe that enacting heavy handed legislation to regulate peoples’ lives is the answer to every social problem.

In Labor's Australia, my religious beliefs, and any opinions I have that are influenced by these beliefs will not be welcome. I will be expected to pay my taxes, keep quiet, and do as the government tells me, just being a compliant citizen. More than ever, I am becoming increasingly aware that this world is not my true home (Philippians 3:20, Hebrews 13:14, 1 Peter 5:10).

In a spiritual sense, I am a stateless person. This is part and parcel of living in an aggressively post-Christian Australia.

Cross purposes

Geelong played Hawthorn in a football match. Geelong won. A newspaper journalist who wrote a match report used an apostrophe incorrectly. Star player Gary Ablett is well known as an evangelical Christian. Hawthorn supporters booed him. While some commentators suggested that this was because he staged for a free kick in the previous game that these two teams played, others said the reason for it was that he liked rugby star Israel Folau's controversial Instagram post. After a meeting with league officials, Ablett unliked the post.

If so, then it seems that this is the result of the AFL's influence over millions of football fans around Australia. In recent years, it has thrown its weight behind trendy political causes such as legalising same sex marriage, pushing the normalisation of homosexuality through a gay pride round, and making it racist to criticise players from racial or ethnic minorities.

As well as a sporting organisation, it is also a a political activist group, and a self appointed arbiter of morality and ethics.