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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 11h \ on: I’m El, founder of Women in Bitcoin Sydney, and political content creator. AMA! AMA
What do you see as the growing threats to freedom for Australians?
Goodness, I think there are many ways to answer this question.
Primarily, our ever-increasing restrictions imposed on our ability to speak freely. This is influenced by policy that aims to ‘preserve social cohesion’.
What complicates this, however, is what I perceive to be a deliberate fracturing of the Australian spirit and culture through mass migration and public education that emphasises historical guilt.
Socially, and now legally, Australia is not a friendly land to dissenting opinions. Left unchecked, as it is difficult to cultivate genuine pushback with stifling laws, this censorship is only getting worse.
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What does the average person think of this?
In the U.S., we have the same dynamics, but about half the country doesn't seem to think (or admit), that there are any problems
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The average person is none the wiser. Once you tell them what’s going on they usually say ‘oh that’s not ideal, but I understand why they have to do it, there are lots of racists/sexists/extremists’ etc.
Very few people have thought deeply about the issue and thus tend to revert to the mean which (given our ‘education system’ /indoctrination system) means they will justify these policies through a wish to be ‘inclusive’ and non offensive.
Worse are those - often of my generation - who actively campaign for more intervention and restrictive legislation under the guise of protecting minorities.
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Again in New Zealand we have similar problems.
Immigration has been used as a cheap form of economic stimulus by politicians and their corporate sponsors who want cheap labour and increased consumer demand but the longer term societal consequences can be much less beneficial.
There is a limit to how much cultural assimilation any community can absorb without damaging and complex consequences.
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