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I’m not racist, because…
Following on from that racism study, the comments below SBS’s article on the subject threaten to provide some good starting material for an incarnation of internet bingo. Again the Left shows its superficiality. If people are wary of Islam, then they are not racist because Islam is not a race. It’s a religion. Aha! Religion,…
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The economics of insanity
I learnt a new phrase today – “lexicographic preference” – courtesy of economics professor J. Bradford DeLong. Before I tell you what it means, let me show you what kind of thinking it produces (not on DeLong’s part, but on those he ridicules). Here are two quotes (don’t look at the links just yet). First:…
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Moving words on the Christchurch calamity
Vicki Anderson: “The day the earth roared“.
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I’m not latently racist, but…
It’s an interesting exercise getting people to admit to racism. The ABC reports on a nation-wide survey (or rather a collection of state-wide surveys) exploring the nature and extent of racist attitudes in Australia. Only 1 in 8 people were prepared to explicitly admit to racial prejudice. Yet, 1 in 2 people were found to be…
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Nothing so humble
The ABC reports that Scott Morrison “climbs down in funeral row”: Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has admitted he was “insensitive” to question the cost of funerals as families mourned for those lost in the Christmas Island shipwreck tragedy yesterday. News Ltd reported that Morrison was sorry for his “insensitive and inappropriate” comments: A CHASTENED…
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Leader of the second bureaucracy
Abbott on Gillard’s decision to establish a “rebuilding inspectorate”: By putting in place this new body, this new bureaucracy to oversee the flood and the storm spending, they have accepted that the public don’t believe they can be trusted with money. You should not need a second bureaucracy to ensure that the first bureaucracy spends…
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What is an atheist?
Some interesting and forceful remarks from PZ Myers on what atheism doesn’t mean, directed at atheists themselves.
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Abbott’s contribution
There is something terribly misanthropic about this sentence: PS. Click to donate to help our campaign against Labor’s flood tax This is the flood tax intended to pay for the rebuilding of Queensland’s public infrastructure, and the sentence appeared in an email sent by Tony Abbott. I know it’s your job to oppose things Tony,…
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Paul Nurse on climate change denialism
“Science Under Attack“, by Paul Nurse for BBC Horizon (via Hot Topic).
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