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Questioning everything underpins all of our human progress.
PC diminishes life making us timid fearful weak and childlike.
The danger is in how much of that nonsense gets shoe-horned into legislation.It's nonsense. In a couple of decades the post modernists have thrown out every value we have accumulated over centuries. Every grand narrative destroyed. To be replaced by concepts of 'social justice'. The idea that people can be marginalised into different degrees of victimhood and that there exists some heightened moral knowledge that comes with being black or female or gay. Then once you assume that moral superiority you can not only claim power by asserting to be 'on the right side of history' but also prevent your opponents from expressing their views.
I believe the end story is that the left will eat itself and we will see the ridiculousness of this subjective, inhuman garbage. Like the current battle between men who want to be known as women, and women who disagree and have been hounded by men who want to be known as women. We also have parents who until yesterday have been trusted to have their children's best interests at heart being overruled by the state for ideological reasons.
The danger is in how much of that nonsense gets shoe-horned into legislation.
When every lawyer in town has been brainwashed with mandatory courses at university.
David Jones' profit halved because department stores are going the way of the dinosaur, not because women sit on it's board.
Reckon we can add Disney to that listNot just department stores it's most of retail. How can they compete with companies that pay no tax, no rates, no super etc etc? Obviously they cant.
Choice is
a) lower prices
b) decimation of retail, large job losses and large chunk of tax base.
At some stage someone is going to come down heavily on amazon, google, uber, ebay etc. It will be like breaking up Standard Oil.
Amazon will pay $0 in federal taxes this year — and it's partially thanks to Trump
Amazon is one of the world's biggest companies, with $232 billion in 2018 revenue. But the company will not pay one cent in federal taxes this year thanks to friendly corporate tax rates and a mix of tax credits and deductions.www.cnbc.com
Reckon we can add Disney to that list
Consumers can be their own worst enemy.Yeah theres prob a few more. Point is that its becoming a massive issue. Take the David JOnes example, they pay
co tax (well if they make a profit)
rates
salaries which are taxed
super
GST indirectly
etc etc
The tech giants are very good at avoiding most or all of those. The conumdrum is that people like the convenience and lower prices of Amazon etc.
I know its off topic but its the elephant in the room that noone (well maybe ex the French) want to address.
Ever complained about how your new fridge or oven doesn't last 15 years like the one you grew up with?
Maybe if you were willing to spend more for a quality product instead of always looking for a bargain you might get a better product.
Not just department stores it's most of retail. How can they compete with companies that pay no tax, no rates, no super etc etc? Obviously they cant.
Choice is
a) lower prices
b) decimation of retail, large job losses and large chunk of tax base.
At some stage someone is going to come down heavily on amazon, google, uber, ebay etc. It will be like breaking up Standard Oil.
Amazon will pay $0 in federal taxes this year — and it's partially thanks to Trump
Amazon is one of the world's biggest companies, with $232 billion in 2018 revenue. But the company will not pay one cent in federal taxes this year thanks to friendly corporate tax rates and a mix of tax credits and deductions.www.cnbc.com
Anyone who can point out where climate change sensationalists have clearly doctored the data to suit their narrative should be allowed to speak.It’s over the top but climate changer deniers are basically ruining any attempt at rational ‘conversation’. Should anti-vaxxers and flat earthers get equal time at the table?
Too true. I saw a kid use the term "Abo" and was aut0omatically shocked. Until I found out she was indigenous and just used that term to express who she was. Good on her. She didn't feel constrained by the media and by political correctness.Yes, yes and yes.
This isn't it, though. In the 1990s it was OK (well, more accurately no one spoke up about it) to call Nicky Winmar or Chris Lewis a boong or an abo. Now it is not. That isn't political correctness, it's progress.
These days we are outraged about ******* everything. See the yellow peril thread. Easter eggs are sold without 'Easter' marketing. Schools don't celebrate Christmas for fear of offending someone. I was a kid in the 1990s. If you didn't celebrate Christmas or Easter then you didn't celebrate them. The onus wasn't on everyone else to abandon cultural traditions for fear of someone's feelings getting hurt.
If you criticise anyone that isn't a white, straight, middle class male for anything then someone, somewhere will get on their soapbox and drag race, sex, gender, sexuality, religion etc. into it. It's tiresome and absolutely stifles debate.
No, but what is worse is denying that climate change exists.Anyone who can point out where climate change sensationalists have clearly doctored the data to suit their narrative should be allowed to speak.
Climate change is not the absolutist disaster that AOC and Al Gore would have everyone believe.
That's akin to declaring that anyone siding with the grievance studies hoaxers should be silenced. Vegans run around spouting the same brand of nonsense that intersectional feminists do. Should we silence anyone who questions their data?
I think you'll find that bottling/containing a massive quantity of the planet's water that would otherwise be in smaller deposits on land, and now can't evaporate into the atmosphere, has much more of an effect than carbon emission.No, but what is worse is denying that climate change exists.
Lets just agree that it does and move to adapt out economies for everyone's sake before it get 0out of hand.