Pauline Hanson says Australia ‘must be monocultural’ in National Press Club speech
Congratulations Aussies, we have a Trumpette!
Australia was never monocultural and can never be monocultural. Before and during English colonisation there was a pre-existing culture on this continent which will continue into the future and will not be erased. As for European-descended colonisers, from the beginning the colony was split between Protestants and Catholics, English and Irish, ruling class and their enforcers and convicts and so on. And that's just for starters. There has never been a monoculture. There is a monocle view which makes it simple not to think.
What are your favourite (or reviled) Pauline truisms (or falsisms)?
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I doubt that monoculture exists anywhere. What does that even mean? It's as nebulous as the term social cohesion. A thought terminating cliché. We're already living in different cultures based on our geographical location and class background.
Much of what she says fits this vague, nostalgic view of the past and what the cookie cutter present should be.
Yeah nostalgia can be distorting. It makes it worse when material conditions were actually better for many people in the past though. That has nothing to do with this monoculture idea though. And Pauline won't make material conditions better for workers.
That's for sure. It's just words anyway. If PHON have to front up with real policies let's see what they come up with.
I suspect it's a reaction to "multicultural". Their demand isn't a cohesive vision, it's a tantrum.
Read it as monochrome culture and it makes much more sense.
Besides which unless we do some pretty awful stuff it’s probably impossible to achieve. It’s unbelievably diverse for our population.
The kind of monoculture I'd like to see is one that priotises wages over asset growth. I suppose that would be awful for asset owners, but I'm sure they'll be OK.
That's not even the real story here. The real story is that the party of freedom and anti woke is having a sook and wants to use police resources to arrest the person who did it... Over a piece of paper that literally showed a real fact
Almost like a dictatorship would against their political opponents.
Throw rocks at this Nazi cunt.
Aboriginals meanwhile:
Exactly! 👌 😆
What do you mean? All Aboriginals practiced welcome to country ceremonies like some sort of monoculture
I think you may be ribbing but if you're not, do a bit of reading and you will find that clan or tribal groups had different protocols for acknowledging visitors to the country over which they were custodians depending on their local traditions. It was a way for both visitors to identify themselves and for the custodians of that part of the country to welcome them and express their culture. At the time of European settlement there were about 250 indigenous languages with about 500 dialects, so, language being part of culture already tells you that there was a lot of diversity and not a sort of monoculture.
All of the above, plus today monoculture is recognized as a bad thing (agriculturally speaking). Can't she even find a good metaphor?
That's the first thing I thought of too, the agricultural meaning, and how monoculture is bad for the land and for living beings. She either does not have enough understanding to see the implications of what she's saying, or, she wants to stir the pot to get lots of attention and social media action.
And I suppose it's her culture and she is going to impose it on everyone, whether they like it or not
she and her oppressive intolerant mates can eff off
monocultural= white nazis.
I wonder what she thinks of the national anthem...
...One and free...Boundless plains to share....
Pauline still sings 'young and free' in protest I reckon 😆
On this, I only learned a few weeks ago this had changed
I missed the news of it.
Same here, no idea this was done
I’ve always wanted just didge for it. Nothing else, just didge, for however long necessary. 10 seconds is enough for a sports national anthem.
Nothing else is needed, it tells the whole story.
I'm happy for some didge but there's nothing like singing aaf at the top of your lungs at the mcg
What the anthem? I can’t sing it, I just can’t, it’s awful
I’m biased though, I don’t really like any
Advance Australia Fair. I also like hearing the Kiwi anthem using Maori and English. Can't sing that one yet though
She probably sings God Save The Queen/King
To share with those that fit some simplistic description.
I mean its kinda cool folks keeping up cultural traditions but monoculture is boring. Its great being in a city where you have a chinese area, and indian, and korean, and irish, and polish, and german, and ukrainian, and just everything.