The Final Quarter / The Australian Dream (AG documentaries) and related discussion

[KSAS]

This thread has appropriately reached paged 37.....oh no i've justed tipped it over to page 38

[Markwebbos]

Thanks Meg

[S.S. Bleeder]

do we ensure posters here are swans supporters, go to question this with some of the posts

What? Swans supporters can't have a diverse range of opinions? What is this, China or North Korea?

The world would be a much better place if people weren't so bigoted.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Yes indeed. You just can't. People like Bolt and Panahi know they are pandering to racism and stupidity. They just don't care. It's a living after all.

So Bolt and Panahi are pandering to their audience in exactly the same way that Ali, Wilkinson and their crones are doing? Correct? The ABC are also doing this except that as they are funded by the taxpayers, they are supposed to be non-partisan.

[jono2707]

What? Swans supporters can't have a diverse range of opinions? What is this, China or North Korea?

The world would be a much better place if people weren't so bigoted.

Settle petal. You have a right to your opinion. We have the right to think what we want about it. Probably not the thread to be posting in as you won't find many friends here. Your views on the Swans and footy in general are pretty spot on so I'll keep appreciating your posts on those topics, just not this one.

[dejavoodoo44]

So Bolt and Panahi are pandering to their audience in exactly the same way that Ali, Wilkinson and their crones are doing? Correct? The ABC are also doing this except that as they are funded by the taxpayers, they are supposed to be non-partisan.

The operative term was pandering to racism and stupidity. While I haven't watched a lot of The Project, the only person I've seen on that show pandering to racism and stupidity, was Steve Price. Whereas Waleed Aly and Lisa Wilkinson are accomplished presenters, who seem to assume that their audience are intelligent media consumers.
As far as the ABC goes, it is an essential part of Australian culture, that is slowly being worn down by years and years of attacks and funding cuts by obsessive right wingers. Which I find grimly ironic. That is, just how much time, the self-appointed guardians of "our culture" spend attacking our cultural institutions and those who make culture. Scientists, academics, the CSIRO, the BOM, the ABC, actual journalists, actors, musicians, and even sports people with an opinion, none are spared the tedious whining of the talkback and tabloid culture warriors.

[dejavoodoo44]

The world would be a much better place if people weren't so bigoted.

Yeah, right. I guess we should have thrown off our preconceptions, when viewing all those knuckle dragging morons, screaming abuse at a Swans champion, and instead thought, thank you for sharing the love.

[S.S. Bleeder]

The operative term was pandering to racism and stupidity. While I haven't watched a lot of The Project, the only person I've seen on that show pandering to racism and stupidity, was Steve Price. Whereas Waleed Aly and Lisa Wilkinson are accomplished presenters, who seem to assume that their audience are intelligent media consumers.
As far as the ABC goes, it is an essential part of Australian culture, that is slowly being worn down by years and years of attacks and funding cuts by obsessive right wingers. Which I find grimly ironic. That is, just how much time, the self-appointed guardians of "our culture" spend attacking our cultural institutions and those who make culture. Scientists, academics, the CSIRO, the BOM, the ABC, actual journalists, actors, musicians, and even sports people with an opinion, none are spared the tedious whining of the talkback and tabloid culture warriors.

Oh boy. No wonder this country is falling back to the dark ages of communism/socialism.

[dejavoodoo44]

Oh boy. No wonder this country is falling back to the dark ages of communism/socialism.

Odd view of a country that has an LNP government. And I'm not sure when we were communist? In the dark ages? Do you mean before the white people arrived?

[liz]

The discussion in this thread is threatening to topple over from civilised - even when we have differing opinions and values - into name calling. Please go back and re-read post 353 if you think you might be guilty of this (or ideally regardless, if you intend to continue to post in the thread).

The Final Quarter / The Australian Dream (AG documentaries) and related discussion - Page 30

[S.S. Bleeder]

The discussion in this thread is threatening to topple over from civilised - even when we have differing opinions and values - into name calling. Please go back and re-read post 353 if you think you might be guilty of this (or ideally regardless, if you intend to continue to post in the thread).

The Final Quarter / The Australian Dream (AG documentaries) and related discussion - Page 30

Thanks Liz. One of the few balanced and logical people people (other than those who are too scared to say what they think for fear of persecution) on RWO.

[Agent 86]

Oh boy. No wonder this country is falling back to the dark ages of communism/socialism.

Is it? I’d say we’ve never been so far the other way? (Unless you’re referring to the dark times when it was lawful to kill blackfellas?)