In this episode we discuss:
(00:00) 392a
(00:43) Introduction
(05:31) Welcome to Sex
(11:44) Ukraine Diversion
(16:52) PWC Awareness Poll
(22:43) Commonwealth Games Decision Poll
(29:14) Scripture Union DGR Status
(30:46) Albo Doesn't Want to Talk About Subs
(35:21) Alison's Facebook and The Voice
(43:28) The Voice and Culture
(01:06:57) Council's Welcome to Country
(01:08:06) Farewell
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Here is the text of Trevor's thoughts on Indigenous culture.
Blacks say a lot of “we blackfellas” and “you whitefellas” in
statements that emphasize the difference between the two groups.
Sympathetic whites say “them” and “us” and defer to
indigenous claims of being special.
Both of these groups from The Left encourage the idea that Indigenous
people are inherently different to white people.
The truth is that any inherited biological differences are trivial.
The real differences are cultural.
To use a computing analogy. We have the same hardware (DNA).
Some of us use a different operating system (culture).
The discourse around The Voice fails to contemplate that the
operating system of culture is changeable and can be upgraded. Culture is seen
as more legitimate if it is pure and uncontaminated by modern influences. In
Indigenous circles it is given an almost sacred quality beyond rational criticism.
To suggest purposeful cultural change is to commit cultural blasphemy.
The Left has failed by refusing to acknowledge the
ideological cultural choices that many indigenous people make. Before speaking
about choice, I’ll make a couple of concessions, namely:
1.
An obviously black man does not have a choice
when racially discriminated against in a shop or a police station. While race
is a myth, racism isn’t.
2.
An indigenous person who has grown up in a strict
indigenous culture is not unlike a member of a cult or strict religious
community in the sense that they have been indoctrinated into accepting a
certain way of life. They don’t have much choice either.
But … there are a significant number of indigenous people
who have been exposed to alternative cultures and ideologies who could decide
to curate their cultural values.
For these people, identifying as indigenous and adopting indigenous
culture and values is an ideological choice.
There is nothing wrong with that, but all ideologies are
open to criticism. No ideology is sacred.
The ideas, norms and practices that some indigenous people
choose to adopt are up
