That Warren Mundine might support the words of Ms Price and who is himself a man of First Australians background and a son-in-law of rightwing commentator Gerard Henderson - is simply appalling - though in Warren's case his support of Price's ugly comments comes from deceitful lying - he was once an SEO in the NSW State Dept of Education…
That Warren Mundine might support the words of Ms Price and who is himself a man of First Australians background and a son-in-law of rightwing commentator Gerard Henderson - is simply appalling - though in Warren's case his support of Price's ugly comments comes from deceitful lying - he was once an SEO in the NSW State Dept of Education - in its "Aboriginal Education Unit" where no one was ignorant of the effects of colonisation on Australia's First Peoples. (In fact they were writing policies and support documents for introducing an "Aboriginal" perspective to the school curriculum.) I was in a unit alongside - but learning from its Education Officers - including two of its most respected officers - Linda Burney - the current Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs and now Sydney University academic Lynette Riley (once married to Mundine)... Both women of the highest integrity.
I'm struck by how soft and easy-to-please Hedges' followers are ... they are nothing more than a pack of passive pushovers ... they seem totally content to have St. Chris spoon-feed them their weekly dose of darkness and that's it ... beyond that, they seem to demand nothing of him ... as we now stand in the midst of THE most perilous time in human history, they are oblivious to the way he has brazenly gone back on his word by refusing to directly confront tyranny, call out the perpetrators by name and comment on hard news developments ... his followers enthusiastically give him a pass and defend him as a "great journalist" even though he effectively retired with the lockdowns ... I've not seen a single person here express an interest in having him comment on the larger prime-time issues that dominate independent media discourse and shape our lives ... Hedges has in turn developed a cynical pandemic playbook in which he hides behind the plight of Assange ... and give him credit for finding new ways to exploit the Assange case to maintain his place in the independent media food chain ... this week he did a 2-part interview with Stella at her home, and before that devoted a sermon to Assange ... in the meantime, he has not had a word to say about the Maui "wildfires" or the proposed amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty ... I firmly believe that his peculiar PR strategy is no accident ... I believe he was told by TPTB to "stay in his lane" and I'd also bet the ranch he rolled over for them without a fight ... Hedges' followers comport themselves as true cultists - St. Chris can do no wrong and they can find no fault ... these people are actually classic enablers ... they fail to notice that although he denounces the corporate elites in general terms, Hedges has deftly taken sides with them on the issues of climate change and also failed to stand against them on personal medical autonomy ... Hedges flies in the face of his past principles and his followers robotically respond by saying "gimme more!"
That Warren Mundine might support the words of Ms Price and who is himself a man of First Australians background and a son-in-law of rightwing commentator Gerard Henderson - is simply appalling - though in Warren's case his support of Price's ugly comments comes from deceitful lying - he was once an SEO in the NSW State Dept of Education - in its "Aboriginal Education Unit" where no one was ignorant of the effects of colonisation on Australia's First Peoples. (In fact they were writing policies and support documents for introducing an "Aboriginal" perspective to the school curriculum.) I was in a unit alongside - but learning from its Education Officers - including two of its most respected officers - Linda Burney - the current Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs and now Sydney University academic Lynette Riley (once married to Mundine)... Both women of the highest integrity.
I'm struck by how soft and easy-to-please Hedges' followers are ... they are nothing more than a pack of passive pushovers ... they seem totally content to have St. Chris spoon-feed them their weekly dose of darkness and that's it ... beyond that, they seem to demand nothing of him ... as we now stand in the midst of THE most perilous time in human history, they are oblivious to the way he has brazenly gone back on his word by refusing to directly confront tyranny, call out the perpetrators by name and comment on hard news developments ... his followers enthusiastically give him a pass and defend him as a "great journalist" even though he effectively retired with the lockdowns ... I've not seen a single person here express an interest in having him comment on the larger prime-time issues that dominate independent media discourse and shape our lives ... Hedges has in turn developed a cynical pandemic playbook in which he hides behind the plight of Assange ... and give him credit for finding new ways to exploit the Assange case to maintain his place in the independent media food chain ... this week he did a 2-part interview with Stella at her home, and before that devoted a sermon to Assange ... in the meantime, he has not had a word to say about the Maui "wildfires" or the proposed amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty ... I firmly believe that his peculiar PR strategy is no accident ... I believe he was told by TPTB to "stay in his lane" and I'd also bet the ranch he rolled over for them without a fight ... Hedges' followers comport themselves as true cultists - St. Chris can do no wrong and they can find no fault ... these people are actually classic enablers ... they fail to notice that although he denounces the corporate elites in general terms, Hedges has deftly taken sides with them on the issues of climate change and also failed to stand against them on personal medical autonomy ... Hedges flies in the face of his past principles and his followers robotically respond by saying "gimme more!"