I’m sorry for your loss and ongoing grief. But have you looked out the window or read the news? Kissinger’s spirit is everywhere.
But it also took me a long time (too long) to understand how important relationships are in tv. Which means making time to catch up with people and grab a coffee. Those people are more likely to hire you and/or let you down properly because you’ve got a true bond.
It can be super frustrating. Producers don’t like to offend anyone in case they’re looking for a job from them down the track, and some of them are cowards, and the cumulative effects is a lack of communication from people who’s job it is to communicate.
On the other hand, some others are golden.
If someone’s platform thrives on division and they are invoking ‘social cohesion’, tune out.
Social cohesion doesn’t mean ‘tolerance’. It means our ability to work as a society, without divisions (differences are fine). You can’t champion the integrity of a hand while chopping off ‘bad fingers’. It’s a nonsensical and highly emotive attempt to distract people from the knife.
then you *do not understand social cohesion*. Because you are actively damaging it.
In other words, you can say ‘racism’ is a threat to social cohesion. You can’t say the same for ‘those types of people who are (all) racists’.
Social cohesion is about binding glue in a society, and a society is made up of all people. If you use the term ‘social cohesion’ to point out groups of people who pose a threat to it (Palestinians, Jews, Zionists, protesters, Trans people, ‘Wokeness’ etc etc) …
When Labour first mentioned it as part of their anti-racism platform, it was ridiculed by the left and hard right as a buzzword to silence dissent. Dutton only mentions ‘social cohesion’ when he identifies (foreign) threats to it.
But here’s the thing.
I first came across ‘social cohesion’ when I was working on an anti-racism project for the state government. I think it’s a really important concept that can now be added to the pile of ‘words that have been weaponised’ in the upcoming election.
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The hard right have all but won the social media contest in a population that has traditionally sided with the left. Even the previous Teal Wave (many of whom aren’t Jewish but represent Jewish areas) are being swept aside.
Division and polarising rhetoric only helps the far right, and … that’s why
and extreme right speakers like Melanie Philips whipping up Islamophobic nonsense in public spaces.
On the other hand, the hard left are making things worse by minimising antisemitism and screaming ‘Zionism’ at the top of their lungs, like that’s not going to alienate 90% of the population.
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The Jewish community in Australia is losing its collective mind at the moment.
There’s a significant swing to the right side of politics, with partisan figures like David Adler acting as unofficial spokesfigures …
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PSA: Ezra Klein’s latest editorial (‘Don’t Believe Him’) is great and a bit hopeful.
I only took one lecture of my law degree before dropping out. I often wonder what it would have been like to finish it. I like to think (hope) it would have eventually lead me to learn from Prof. Megan Davis.
Her article in The Monthly is a little old now but it’s such a good read. Big recommends.
Just a little FYI: yesterday Australia - with its DEI policies, high vaccination rates and Medicare program - eradicated H5N1 bird flu in our country.
Claiming Musk is a friend to the Jews is like claiming Trump is a friend to the Mexicans because he once said his building had better nachos.
Linking to my latest article on Medium:
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Please read and share and repost (thank you) and let me know what you think!
Wild that Trump wants to rename it the Gulf of America when he in fact is the gulf of America.
Fell asleep while streaming a show on my iPad and I can’t believe I watched the whole season without me.
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They’re going to be impacted by this personally and professionally, and were likely as blindsided by this as any fan. Totally on board with not contributing further to *his* income, but you don’t need to cancel (new works by) other people by association.
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3. the idea that people who worked with Gaiman are therefore also culpable is weird. The Arts is a collaborative industry. I know several people who recently worked on projects with Gaiman or his work.
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You can move on from an author or their work without invalidating whole genres or everything their writing made you feel at the time.
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I personally feel like I outgrew his stuff a while ago, but my daughter was hit by this news in the way I would have been in my 20s, and she’s only just recovering from JK Rowling.
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2. Gaiman’s work made big strides for the popular acceptance of goth and nerd culture, and I’d hate to see Goth nerds thrown back in the closet on his account.
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People who abuse people are able to do so because they’re ‘charming’ and/or ‘unremarkable’, and that kind of dissimulation takes creativity and social intelligence.
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1. It’s tempting to think that you or his colleagues ‘knew’, because of the themes in his work, or that being outed for predatory behaviour means his work was also predatory or uncreative. But there’s nothing that inherently separates a Neil Gaiman joint from a Bill Cosby one in that regard.
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With all the awful Neil Gaiman-related news, I think there are a few important things to keep in mind (because I see people writing them on the internet).
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Men deserve better than having their gender used as cover for petulant, capricious and immature misbehavior.
