TRIGGERnometry - Can Australia Endure the Woke Onslaught？ - Konstantin Kisin

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00:00:30.000 For the last two weeks, I've had the great pleasure of traveling around Australia and

00:00:34.560 speaking at various events in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, and Canberra. While a

00:00:39.560 terrific honor for me, this is undoubtedly a bad sign for Australia. The tragedy of my career is

00:00:45.060 that I say obvious things that everyone knows and am lavished with entirely unmerited praise and

00:00:49.860 response. It pains me to point this out, but if Constance and Kissin has been invited to give a

00:00:54.820 series of talks in your country, all is not well. This is the bad news for Australia.

00:01:00.000 It appears to have been infected with the same mind virus as the rest of the Anglosphere. 0.98

00:01:04.780 The symptoms are all too familiar. Identity politics fueled by the false teaching of history.

00:01:10.100 Political polarization. Two-tier policing with anti-lockdown protests brutally suppressed,

00:01:15.840 followed by the police standing by as crowds chant, gas the Jews, outside the Sydney Opera House

00:01:21.520 due to fears of upsetting social cohesion. The number of children being treated for gender dysphoria

00:01:27.540 at Victoria's Royal Children's Hospital's gender clinic has increased by over a thousand percent in less

00:01:34.000 than a decade. Some journalists at the ABC, the country's national broadcaster, avoid revealing their

00:01:40.180 nuanced political views to colleagues for fear of appearing insufficiently woke. Corporations jump on

00:01:46.440 every progressive cause with enthusiasm. Activists want to cancel Australia Day. Instead of being a day of

00:01:52.600 national unity, they want to turn it into one of shame and self-flagellation. It is all happening

00:01:58.200 for the same reasons too. In the words of pioneer investor Peter Thiel, courage is now in shorter

00:02:04.180 supply than genius. This is sadly also true in the land down under. While the center-left appeases its

00:02:11.500 extremist fringe, many on the center-right hesitate to challenge the cultural vandalism they observe

00:02:16.520 for fear of being described as culture warriors. And with good reason. While the symptoms of the mind 0.90

00:02:22.200 virus are visible to outside observers like me and those in the media and politics, in truth, for the

00:02:28.380 moment, the infection remains comparatively asymptomatic. This is the good news. As things stand, Australia's 1.00

00:02:34.940 biggest challenge is not extremism, it is apathy born of comfort. Life here is good and the differences to the

00:02:41.660 rest of the Anglosphere are remarkable. Unlike major American and increasingly British cities, the streets

00:02:47.160 and parks here are not overrun with people suffering from the scourges of addiction, homelessness, and

00:02:52.040 crime. Sydney and Melbourne ranked among the top 10 safest cities in the world in the Economist Intelligence

00:02:58.040 Unit's Safe Cities Index 2021, and as the third and fourth most livable cities in the world according to

00:03:04.620 the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Livability Index 2023. With mining, drilling, and agriculture

00:03:10.340 are responsible for over 70% of the country's exports, Australia has highly paid jobs for those

00:03:15.800 outside of the laptop class. A mine truck driver can earn over $130,000 Australian dollars a year,

00:03:22.780 that's nearly £70,000, while going down into the mine can bring as much as $250,000 Aussie dollars,

00:03:29.760 £130,000. I know many lawyers, senior doctors, and other professionals in London who can only dream of

00:03:36.120 such earnings. Indeed, a doctor friend doubled her salary the day she moved to Australia from the UK.

00:03:42.940 And while many will tell you that political polarisation is the worst it's ever been,

00:03:47.060 they'll often do so while sitting around a table with people of different political viewpoints.

00:03:51.540 As a senior politician put it at one such gathering,

00:03:54.580 I don't want the other party to be elected, but I know they eventually will be, and I want them to be

00:03:59.600 the best possible government for Australia when they are. It's hard to put into words how much this is

00:04:04.860 not the case in Britain and America. On cultural issues too, while apathy is how woke activists are

00:04:10.680 able to continue hollowing out the country's institutions, when forced to step away from

00:04:15.360 the Barbie and vote in the Aboriginal voice referendum last year, ordinary Australians made 0.51

00:04:20.820 their feelings clear. Fronted by the courageous Jacinta Price, the No campaign overturned a one-sided

00:04:27.080 onslaught from the country's media, corporate, and political elite, with 60% voting against embedding

00:04:33.500 identity politics and the constitution. On immigration too, Australians engage in debates

00:04:38.520 that many of us would give our right arms to have. While tens of thousands of people come to the UK

00:04:43.900 on small boats illegally every year, and millions stream in through the porous southern border of

00:04:48.940 the United States, Australia has comprehensively solved this problem. Far from being some sort of

00:04:54.240 voodoo magic, which is what it feels like it would take to address this issue in our countries,

00:04:58.360 all that was needed for the then Prime Minister Tony Abbott to stare down at resistance civil

00:05:03.800 service and legal challenges to deliver Operation Sovereign Borders in 2013. While Abbott still attracts

00:05:10.560 criticism and protest, as I discovered when I had the honour of joining him on stage at Sydney

00:05:15.120 University event, the facts of the matter are simple. 74 people came to Australia illegally on boats in

00:05:22.400 2023, down from 17,202 in 2012. It can be done. It just takes balls, and miraculously, some Aussie 1.00

00:05:32.780 politicians still have them. In many ways, travelling to Australia from Britain feels like a journey 10 years 0.59

00:05:38.200 into the past. In previous decades, that would have sounded like a hacked joke meant to paint Aussies as

00:05:43.100 provincial and unsophisticated people. But today, it is both a compliment and a warning.

00:05:48.580 Australians talk proudly of having the most successful multicultural country in the world,

00:05:53.980 because they've yet to discover what both David Cameron and Angela Merkel were forced to confess

00:05:58.320 many years ago. Multiculturalism doesn't work. Neither Cameron nor Merkel were hard-right culture

00:06:04.740 warriors, but the reality of what they saw in their respective countries forced them to acknowledge the

00:06:09.840 truth. Immigration, when carefully managed and highly selective, can offer tremendous benefits.

00:06:15.260 But the higher the level of migration, and the more divergent the cultural and religious backgrounds

00:06:19.960 from which people come, the more punitive the diminishing returns. When I came to the UK in the

00:06:25.380 mid-90s, the British public were entirely unconcerned about immigration, with just 3% describing it as a

00:06:31.820 major issue in the year that I came. Back in the early 90s, net migration was running at about

00:06:37.120 54,000 people a year. This was followed almost immediately by the hugely popular election of

00:06:42.960 Tony Blair, who abandoned all caution, with Britain welcoming more people during his premiership

00:06:48.580 than had come between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and 1950. David Cameron, who I mentioned earlier,

00:06:55.200 his conservative successor and his innumerable replacements, failed to stem the tide. Despite the

00:07:01.340 popular uprising that we call Brexit, the latest net migration figures up to June 2023 were 672,000

00:07:09.680 people. The result? Sectarian clashes in major British cities, Parliament abandoning its own rules

00:07:16.200 to appease Islamists, and rising ethnic tensions. Concerns about social cohesion, so widely shared by

00:07:22.700 police chiefs and politicians across the Western world, have actually contributed to its decline.

00:07:27.760 It seems to me that Australia is in danger of making many of the same mistakes. In the year

00:07:32.780 ending 30 June 2023, legal migration contributed a net gain of 518,000 people to the country's

00:07:39.720 population. This is a record level, and for a country of just 26 million people, this is a higher

00:07:45.140 level of immigration per capita than even in the UK. The creation of a two-tier conversation about race

00:07:50.440 is also firmly underway. An Aussie football player pleaded not guilty in a London court recently,

00:07:55.560 and is fighting to have the charge of racially aggravated harassment of the officer thrown out 1.00

00:08:01.060 after allegedly calling him a stupid white bastard. The officer is white, and Sam Kerr, 1.00

00:08:06.700 the player in question, is not. She not only refused to apologise, but has in fact secured apologies

00:08:11.560 from people like former Socorroo and prominent anti-racism advocate Craig Foster, who initially

00:08:17.040 criticised her comments. In his pathetic and grovelling apology to Kerr, Foster showed all the signs

00:08:22.820 of having been properly re-educated. Citing the Diversity Council of Australia's definition of 0.85

00:08:28.640 racism, which references the perpetrator being in a position of race-based societal power,

00:08:34.440 Foster said racism cannot be committed against a white person as they're not a member of a

00:08:39.320 marginalised group. This is the great paradox of the woke takeover of any society. Why are you being 0.85

00:08:45.200 a divisive culture warrior? They'll scream at you as they take the foundations of your society apart

00:08:50.360 brick by brick. It is difficult to oppose robustly until the majority of people notice the problem,

00:08:56.560 by which point it may be too late. Getting ordinary Australians to recognise the threat before the

00:09:01.860 dangerous threshold is reached is the biggest challenge for the country's sensible elite.

00:09:06.460 Whether they can succeed remains to be seen.

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TRIGGERnometry - May 07, 2024

Can Australia Endure the Woke Onslaught？ - Konstantin Kisin

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