"Emotion, it seems to me, rules the roost more than ever in Australia, while sober argument is relegated to an afterthought. Perhaps that’s inevitable. But what we can avoid is this tendency to slice down anyone who breaches our little bubble of sensitivity. It is a censorious instinct that seeks to silence such people, not conducive at all to the flourishing of free speech or our supposed culture of larrikinism."

Friend of mine Michael Koziol tells it like it is on Australia day. People complain. Joke is on them as he gets page hits and is proven right.

5 notes, January 26, 2012

  1. pirateking74 reblogged this from albertinho
  2. jnenifre said: i don’t know if you recall but there was an article he wrote last year that caused an uproar because the older readers just kept saying things like ‘you’re just a kid/you know nothing/we’re older hence wiser’ something like that. i cried out of anger
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