The Voice

[JohnDe]

My wife's younger cousin posted on FB 'if you're going to vote no you don't understand, you're no friend of mind and you can unfriend me', or something similar to that.

And so, I complied, she is longer on my friend list.

Who said that this referendum was not divisive?

 

[mullokintyre]

The yes campaign just don't do themselves any favours, right up there with Hilary's deplorables comment.
This is NOT the way to prosecute your argument and win your wavering voters over.
Mick

 

[Sean K]

The yes campaign just don't do themselves any favours, right up there with Hilary's deplorables comment.
This is NOT the way to prosecute your argument and win your wavering voters over.
Mick
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The no vote doesn't need to campaign for this. The yes case are doing all they can to make it fail.

 

[TimeISmoney]

My wife's younger cousin posted on FB 'if you're going to vote no you don't understand, you're no friend of mind and you can unfriend me', or something similar to that.

And so, I complied, she is longer on my friend list.

Who said that this referendum was not divisive?

A lot of people see it as politicised, like it's a right vs left issue, and need to morally vote a certain way. I personally can't care less about that side of it, best to inform myself and fact-check stuff for the truth and I'll make my own vote on my own merits. It's a democratic country, trying to make someone vote a certain with guilt isn't democratic.

 

[TimeISmoney]

The yes campaign just don't do themselves any favours, right up there with Hilary's deplorables comment.
This is NOT the way to prosecute your argument and win your wavering voters over.
Mick
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And taking money from white coloniser governments your whole life, becoming a multi-millionaire from it, and can't stand for the national anthem isn't racist and hypocritical. I think she needs to have a good look at herself.

 

[wayneL]

Basket of deplorables, anyone?

 

[Sean K]

Basket of deplorables, anyone?

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But, she's a Professor. Very smart.

Will Marcia Langton’s dismissal of the referendum No case as either “base racism or sheer stupidity” be the Indigenous voice’s campaign death knell as was Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” in her US Presidential election campaign?

Will it be seen as Mark Latham’s aggressive handshake of a much older John Howard during the dying days of the 2004 election campaign?

It is too early judge, just as the full extent of Clinton’s gaffe was not recognised until later, but, as the Yes campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament flounders, loses momentum and is given up for being lost there cannot have been a worse intervention.

 

[SirRumpole]

But, she's a Professor. Very smart.

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Will Marcia Langton’s dismissal of the referendum No case as either “base racism or sheer stupidity” be the Indigenous voice’s campaign death knell as was Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” in her US Presidential election campaign?

Will it be seen as Mark Latham’s aggressive handshake of a much older John Howard during the dying days of the 2004 election campaign?

It is too early judge, just as the full extent of Clinton’s gaffe was not recognised until later, but, as the Yes campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament flounders, loses momentum and is given up for being lost there cannot have been a worse intervention.

OMG, @rederob is Marcia in disguise !

 

[Sean K]

OMG, @rederob is Marcia in disguise !

I can't see Red Robs posts, he's banned me. So sad.

 

[SirRumpole]

I can't see Red Robs posts, he's banned me. So sad.

I can't see them either. This double blinding is a nuisance imo, he could be bad mouthing all his critics and we'd never know.\

 

[wayneL]

I can't see Red Robs posts, he's banned me. So sad.

Be glad

I can't see them either. This double blinding is a nuisance imo, he could be bad mouthing all his critics and we'd never know.\

That would require him to log out, read the posts that he wouldn't ordinarily be able to see, then log back in to do any ****-canning.

That would be pretty poor form in my opinion.

 

[Sean K]

Be glad
That would require him to log out, read the posts that he wouldn't ordinarily be able to see, then log back in to do any ****-canning.

That would be pretty poor form in my opinion.

That's pretty perverse. Might help him. In whatever way.

 

[wayneL]

That's pretty perverse. Might help him. In whatever way.

He was doing that to me a while back.

 

[TimeISmoney]

But, she's a Professor. Very smart.

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Will Marcia Langton’s dismissal of the referendum No case as either “base racism or sheer stupidity” be the Indigenous voice’s campaign death knell as was Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables” in her US Presidential election campaign?

Will it be seen as Mark Latham’s aggressive handshake of a much older John Howard during the dying days of the 2004 election campaign?

It is too early judge, just as the full extent of Clinton’s gaffe was not recognised until later, but, as the Yes campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament flounders, loses momentum and is given up for being lost there cannot have been a worse intervention.

They should load it on a plane and dump it in the middle of Zimbabwe then it will really see how entitled it is. Maybe then it can use its professor skills to help the underprivileged.

 

[Sean K]

Professor Marcia Langton has been forced to deny accusing No voters in the upcoming Voice to Parliament referendum of “base racism” and “sheer stupidity”.

She has instead claimed she was talking about the tactics of the No campaign, and not its supporters, after comments she made at an open forum were reported.

“Every time the No cases raise their arguments, if you start pulling it apart you get down to base racism — I’m sorry to say that’s where it lands — or sheer stupidity,” Professor Langton was reported to have said at the event at WA’s Edith Cowan University.

“If you look at any reputable fact-checker, every one of them says the No case is substantially false. They are lying to you.”

The comments, which were first picked up by the Bunbury Herald, were quickly highlighted by the No campaign as evidence of the divisiveness of those advocating for the referendum.

 

[Sean K]

I think my favourite Oils song was Kosciuszko, sung by the drummer.

Bloody hell, if the Finns come out in favour of the Voice, I will have no music left.

 

[wayneL]

I think my favourite Oils song was Kosciuszko, sung by the drummer.

Bloody hell, if the Finns come out in favour of the Voice, I will have no music left.

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I'm digging out my sex pistols album because that's about how I feel about things at the moment.

 

[JohnDe]

One of my customers of 30+ years is an Imam. Very intelligent and wise. Loves Australia and has lived here for 45 of his 70+ years, raised 5 children who have all gone through university and now work hard. One of his kids is a teacher, he was saying that instructions from the education system is given that requires teachers to ask question of primary school aged children that are a form of social engineering.

I think my favourite Oils song was Kosciuszko, sung by the drummer.

Bloody hell, if the Finns come out in favour of the Voice, I will have no music left.

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Can always count on AC/DC

 

[mullokintyre]

So now I wonder, who will be the first person to link the Nazis with the No Campaign now that Trump has been invoked.
Mick

 

[qldfrog]

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So now I wonder, who will be the first person to link the Nazis with the No Campaign now that Trump has been invoked.
Mick

and the irony and that you are a racist voting NO, whereas by essence the whole YES vote is the exact definition of racism