Keith Windschuttle
I don't know a huge amount about this guy, only that he's an apologist for the White Australia policy, author of a book that 'disproved' genocide against Aboriginal people, and a kind of roll-out anti-left intellectual in thrall to Howard.
But yesterday I whiled away an hour or two with Auntie Google, and fascism+Australia, interested as I am in the 1933-ness of now, and Keith's blog came up, The Sydney Line, with a line about Pilger and American fascism, and I went ahead and read this article:
http://www.sydneyline.com/Vilifying%20Australia.htm
He's a fucking idiot.
Flat out. You'd think if your job was being an intellectual, reading and critiquing and so on, you could come up with a better argument against Australia in the 50's being an intensely chauvinist country than that we introduced the vote for woman pretty early?
Its ridiculous.
That whole article is full of nonsense like that.
I'm not all the way left, me, I can see the sense in some conservative views, and I like the idea of having thought my thing through a little, so Keith had a window, a teeny tiny window, seeing as his oeuvre pretty much pissed me off already - quibbling about numbers and definitions for genocide, the arse - only he blew it. This poo-loo article is so chockers with lame arguments, and exaggerations and the woolly-pulling of nonsense into proof that his point-of-view becomes not just foolish, but irrelevant. I think its best for Keith that I rebuild his head in the manner of a cult leader, before we let him out again.
Arse of the week .
posted by Annie B @ 11:44 AM
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