ABC’s three fails while covering Bruce Pascoe’s latest book
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun March 31, 2024
Just one week ago I set the ABC a test: prove they’re in the truth business. I specifically asked: “Will the ABC now disown its hero”, fake Aborigine Bruce Pascoe, as he flogged his latest book, on life on his Mallacoota farm?
Since then: three fails.
As most informed people must now know, Pascoe is not Aboriginal.
Genealogical records indicate all his ancestors are of British descent, and two of the three tribes he claims are his say he’s fake.
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His bestseller Dark Emu has also been debunked.
Pascoe relied in part on false citations to claim Aborigines had actually been farmers living in “houses” in “towns” of 1000 people.
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Now, in his latest book, he even claims Aborigines were here for “100,000 years” – twice as long as accepted science suggests – and to end their disadvantage we should buy flour they used to make from, say, kangaroo grass, which is so impractical that a kilo from Pascoe’s farm costs $360.
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But here’s what happened when Pascoe was interviewed three times last Tuesday on the ABC.
Not one of the four interviewers – Rafael Epstein, David Lipson, Emma Rebellato and Michael Rowland – asked Pascoe for evidence that he wasn’t a fake Aborigine.
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They merely asked how it felt to have been, er, criticised, for something they didn’t dare name.
They all asked variations of the poor-you question on the ABC’s Radio National Breakfast: “That backlash post Dark Emu, what was that like?”
Lipson even advertised Pascoe still as Aboriginal and praised him for being “honest”.
None challenged Pascoe’s claim that Aborigines were here for 100,000 years, or that they’d been farmers, or that kangaroo grass flour was a viable solution when it costs $360 a kilo.
I once thought truth counted.
But to today’s tribalists it now seems that the more false a claim by one of their own, the more credit they get for believing it.
How little the facts now count was made clear last week by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Peter FitzSimons, who declared the truth of Pascoe’s race wasn’t relevant: “I’m happy to take (Pascoe) at his word – not that it is particularly relevant.
This is typical for leftoids:
“We must see things not as they are, but the way we would like them to be”– Hussein Obama
Let’s say he also claimed to be a great dancer – and he wasn’t. Would it remotely affect what he wrote?
Well, if Pascoe tells untruths even about his race, why believe anything else in his Aboriginal “history”? But which Leftist journalist still cares about truth?
‘Welcome Ceremonies’ are an insult to all non Aboriginals. The last sentence of every of these ceremonies is “This is Aboriginal land. Always was and always will be.” Meaning that we are all ‘squatters’ unlawfully here on someone else’s land.
That, and nothing else is the exact message of this revolting ordeal.
It is to disown and to disenfranchise the white man from the nation he built. It is mind boggling that there are people too dumb to understand that.
The hide of Mohammedan agitprops! To suggest that people with a profound dislike for Islam are suffering from an irrational mental condition, a “phobia” that can only be cured by submitting to Islam, is an insult to anyones intelligence.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – JUNE 22: Protesters chant slogans to condemn Britain’s knighting of the Indian-born author Salman Rushdie June 22, 2007 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Protests have been erupting in many cities in Pakistan after Rushdie received the honor from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. A leading Iranian cleric stated today that the death sentence fatwa issued against Rushdie by Iran’s leader 18 years ago over his book “The Satanic Verses” is still valid. The author was forced into hiding for a decade after Khomeini issued the 1989 death sentence. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear, as in claustrophobia, agoraphobia or arachnophobia, all conditions deserving of sympathy. But fear can be rational, too. An infantryman in a First World War trench would have every reason to fear going over the top. To accuse him of a ‘phobia’ would be uncharitable, to say the least. An Australian suspected of arachnophobia might point out that spiders with a dangerous bite are not rare. In Britain, there’s much less to fear from spiders, so my fear of them could fairly be called arachnophobia. Is there a group of people who, like Australians in the case of spiders, have good reason to fear certain aspects of Islam? If such a group exists, I suggest it would be found among Muslims themselves.
A gay Muslim living in an Islamic country might have reasonable misgivings. There are nine Muslim countries in which consensual homosexuality carries the death penalty. A Muslim woman in Iran might reasonably fear being arrested by the morality police for showing a tendril of hair. In Pakistan or Britain, she might fear violent reprisals from her father, uncles or brothers if she is suspected of consorting with an unsuitable man. In Somalia, a girl might reasonably fear older female relatives who intend to hold her down and take a razor blade to her clitoris. Not phobia, just justifiable fear. In Saudi Arabia, an unmarried adulterer might reasonably fear the prescribed 100 lashes, while a married adulterer can expect the death penalty.
In Britain, phobia is hardly the right word for any fear Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, might feel. Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: ‘Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him. His mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah.’ A Muslim who is losing his faith would have good reason to fear the penalty for apostasy, which is death. When I taxed Sir Iqbal with this on television, he said, ‘It’s very rarely enforced’. That’s good to hear. But a would-be apostate doesn’t have to be ‘phobic’ to still feel a reasonable fear.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims’ definition of Islamophobia, which was published in 2018, begins with the statement that it’s a form of racism. In a new paper for the Free Speech Union, Tim Dieppe makes the obvious point that Islam is not a race, and he very well develops the inconsistencies that this remarkable solecism leads to.
I would make one further observation. A religion is something you can convert to, or opt out of. Your race isn’t like that. You can’t convert to a race or leave it. The fact that you can’t leave your race means that, if Islam is indeed a race, apostasy is literally impossible. Yet apostasy has to be possible in Islam or it couldn’t be punishable by death. So the statement that Islamophobia is a form of racism is more than just incorrect. It contradicts a fundamental, and incidentally obnoxious, tenet of Islam.
Here I have not considered the issue of freedom of speech. Tim Dieppe covers it so well that I have nothing to add, except this final thought. If ‘Islamophobia’ becomes punishable by law, will it be illegal to even state, as a matter of fact, that a woman in some Islamic countries can be stoned to death for the crime of speaking to a man other than her husband? Will I be arrested for stating the undenied fact that apostasy carries the death penalty?
If so, bring it on. I look forward to defending myself in court.
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and author. The above is an edited version of his introduction to the Free Speech Union’s latest briefing paper, Banning Islamophobia: Blasphemy Law by the Backdoor.
The destruction that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad caused inside and outside of Al-Shifa Hospital is devastating. These groups admitted that their members fired at IDF soldiers from within Al Shifa Hospital, while also documenting and proudly disseminating footage of their ‘fighters’ firing at soldiers stationed outside the hospital—causing immense damage. While English language accounts try to manipulate the public and claim that the 200+ gunmen who were killed were innocent children, let’s look at what Arabic language social media shared proudly and openly:
More from Hamas, this time firing mortars at what this account calls ‘Zionist pigs in the vicinity of Al Shifa Hospital.’ Anyone with critical thinking abilities would understand the dangers posed to Palestinian civilians and patients by firing randomly like this. The point is…… https://t.co/BmGLjAYpAt
A multitude of Hamas propagandists, UN, UNESCO & WHO liars are trying to drum up support against Israel. Their lies are appalling. “Israel destroys historic churches in Gaza” (false) “IDF blows up hospital” blah blah.
They are just trying to cover up Hamas war crimes of using a Hospital as a military compound. They are nothing but Hamas propagandists.
IDF GAZA UPDATE:
The IDF have completed their operation against Hxmas in Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, with all troops withdrawing from the area. The operation, initiated on March 18, resulted in the capture of approximately 900 suspects, including over 500 confirmed terror… pic.twitter.com/AVw0fjXv9U
The kind of people who are demanding that Israel show respect for Ramadan with a ceasefire, disrupted a religious service in a Catholic church on the Easter holiday. Supporters of Hamas are some of the worst people on the planet, and they prove it every single day.
Pro Hamas supporters call for targeting of synagogues and attempt to recruit children. This took place Sunday March 31st in Thorncliffe Park Toronto. pic.twitter.com/begQhxHXxM
Police have warned Canada’s leaders they will struggle to contain the fury at its deteriorating economy and a generational revolt by young people unable to ever buy a home.
The secret report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police paints an apocalyptical picture of the future for America’s northern neighbor…
The report…
…warns that the truckers’ convoy protests that polarized the country in 2022 may just be the precursor for a society increasingly polarized by ‘conspiracy theories and paranoia’.
The leftists who charted this course for Canada will no doubt respond by suppressing what the report calls “misinformation” so as to keep the “conspiracy theories and paranoia” (i.e., awareness of what Trudeau et al. are doing to their country) under control, forcing the pressure to build still further until it finally blows.
We all know about Bidenomics. Here’s what the report has to say about the likely consequences of Trudeaunomics:
“The coming period of recession will accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations.”
Global warming lunacy inflicted by the government will accelerate this decline still more, ensuring that people have ever more to be angry about and ever less to lose.
Canadians sat out the American Revolution. It’s not too late to catch up.
The Biden White House has banned religious-themed art from this year’s Easter egg art contest, barring any “any questionable content” which apparently includes “religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.” Pair that with Biden declaring Easter Sunday this year the “Transgender Day of Visibility,” and many are calling him out for the overtly anti-God approach to the holiday.
Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is lighting up Democrat Joe Biden and the White House for the president’s “appalling and insulting” behavior towards Christians on Easter.
“Don’t underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to F*** things up.” –
Hussein Obama
President Joe Biden’s White House has declared the holiest of Christian holidays “Transgender Day of Visibility,” announcing that “transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our nation.”
Biden issued an official proclamation on Good Friday, reading, “We honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.”
Here’s to Transgender Day of Visibility
Creepy Joe is also banning religious-themed Easter egg designs at the Easter Egg Roll event. How Catholic of him. The White House is banning National Guard children from submitting Easter egg designs that include “questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
The art contest is a tradition at the White House Easter Egg Roll however the Catholic president doesn’t want to see anything religious-themed.
Met Police caves to Islamic terrorists when police van is surrounded by a mob of Mohammedan cuttrhoats:
Just when you thought that the Met Police had improved this weekend, they release a pro Palestine protester seemingly without charge after other protestors surrounded a police van, blocking it from moving.
What a stupid man. He seems to regret that he is not a Mohammedan.
I wish all Muslims peace and joy as they enter this season of Ramadan: this special time of prayer, fasting and spiritual reflection.
I give thanks for the great contribution of Muslims to our society, and for their great hospitality and welcome. I pray that this Ramadan is a… pic.twitter.com/KrGNdDtj18
— Archbishop of Canterbury (@OfficeofABC) March 10, 2024
Islamofascist Bushra Shaikh praises the rot & the decay of a Londonistan run by Muslim Brotherhood operative Sadiq Khan:
Islam is neither “rich, multi-faith, multi-diverse” and even less a “community made up of wonderful people”. On the path of Islam, everything dies.
The Left is truly vile. They destroy art, statues, and symbols. They have no respect for anything if it doesn't fit their narrow little world views. They are the Western Taliban. Sickening. https://t.co/jlWJYp0Rsr
A Few Bad Apples: 8,000 UNRWA Teachers Rallied for Hamas TerroristUnited Nations Human Rights Council Debate, 27 March 2024 How fitting that this Council meets here in the Hall of Qatar, sponsored by the country now hosting Hamas terrorist chiefs in Doha luxury hotels. In her report, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese urged funding of UNRWA, which she says is being “attacked.” Let us consider. Yesterday, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini was next door to meet with the Swiss Parliament’s foreign affairs committee. They announced that I will be invited to brief them next. Here’s a preview of what I will say. On February 10th, the world discovered the terror tunnel right below UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, with electric cables going from the UNRWA grid to power computer servers forming a Hamas intelligence center. Mr. Lazzarini responded: “UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters.” Really? Because a week prior, on February 2nd, the Wall Street Journal reported: “In 2014, part of the parking lot at UNRWA headquarters in Gaza began sinking, likely from a Hamas tunnel dug beneath. ‘No one talked about what was causing the collapse,’ a former Unrwa official said, ‘but everyone knew.’” I repeat: “Everyone knew.” When it was revealed that numerous UNRWA employees took part in the massacre of October 7th, Mr. Lazzarini and his surrogates claimed, “It’s just a few bad apples.” Really? In September 2011, Suhail al-Hindi, Chair of the UNRWA Staff Union in Gaza, and principal of an UNRWA boys school, was suspended for his role with Hamas. He was a member of the Hamas politburo with Yahya Sinwar. In response, the entire UNRWA staff in Gaza, 8,000 teachers and school principals, went on strike for months to support this Hamas leader. UNRWA reinstated him. “A few bad apples”? No. UNRWA is rotten to the core.
To fill in a convenient omission:
Shifa Hospital: Hamas senior commander reveals that 600-1000 terrorists hid in the hospital. He also disclosed that Hamas hid weapons in the hospital and used the management building and maternity ward to conduct terrorist activities from. pic.twitter.com/6LWsjztLNG
Disgraceful behaviour at what appears to be a children’s party. No wonder their generation can’t even work out whether they are boys or girls. Why do these degenerates have to sexualise everything ?
Calls are growing to extend the length and area of the two-week curfew for children under 18 in Alice Springs to give residents some ‘respite’: https://bit.ly/3TDMWRJ
Rubber bullets, tasers, tear gas & skunk spray might do the trick.
Portuguese police explain to the cultural enricher that he cannot go around with a katana. pic.twitter.com/vwCxL362eO