And you would be 100% wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson

Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing populist to far-right political party.

Pauline Hanson and her party are completely bonkers don't get me wrong.

But they are also one of the only parties addressing the immigration issue, which is why they got some seats. No other party is really making as much of a fuss about immigration, so people that don't want Australia to turn into Germany/Sweden, have no sane person to vote for.

It's lose/lose unfortunately, until someone reasonable stands up and even addresses the concerns.

I'm all for multiculturalism, but not if some cultures don't reciprocate, which is what we are seeing throughout Europe.

He's in Pauline Hanson's party, and there are plenty of examples of her racism (mostly against indigenous people and Asians).

As for One Nation, they want to abolish the Racial Discrimination Act (the one that makes it illegal to discriminate based on race). They want surveillance cameras installed in all mosques.

They also have a number of utterly pointless policies designed to "target Islam" by outlawing things THAT ARE ALREADY FUCKING ILLEGAL, like female genital mutilation (male genital mutilation is just dandy though) and not allowing face coverings on driving licences.

That might not meet a strict definition of a "racist" policy, but it's pretty clear where they're coming from.

In case anyone is wondering, the ignorant douchenozzle belongs to Pauline Hanson's "One Nation" party.

So not only is he a complete moron, he's a racist asshole as well.

I hadn't heard of Ellen Burbidge previously, good find

As for Hanson... I'd have been quite happy for her to have used her British citizenship to move to England (she stayed because England is "overrun by immigrants").

Thanks, @burdturgler and all the rest. This is some amazing musicality on the part of Hanson, even now five years later.

I don't think intellect or "brightness" has anything to do with it. It's desire/zealotry that is the key to staunch belief in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary (or complete lack of supporting evidence) paired with ignorance, sometimes deliberate, sometimes incidental. It's a faith thing, which makes it akin to religion.

eg. the discussion we are having re: solar PV, I mentioned James Hanson who was really the first modern scientist to codify man made global climate change. Climate deniers ridicule him for his stance on global warming, and many environmentalists hate him for his staunch pro nuclear stance.

As someone who is ashamed to say that is the high school i graduated from last year, as well as participated in sports i can tell you two things for certain.

The chant Hanson mentions is extremely common place (It was never one we lead them in but wasn't uncommon for the fans to chant). And Flower Mound i suspect is one of the most white-washed communities you could find anywhere. This sort of casual and very cowardly racism , sadly i can't even say surprises me.

These are the same losers who would absolutely wet themselves if they were confronted by a person of color.

I'm Chris Hanson with Dateline NBC...

Glenn Ford also appeared in these films in ascending order from 1939 until 1941
*(Imagine the film titles as thoroughbred quarter horse names and his character's names,that of their jockeys in the big race, with a seasoned announcer at the microphone lathering-on the color for the listening audience)

Texas
jockey-Tod Ramsey

So Ends Our Night
J-Ludwig Kern

Blondie Plays Cupid
J-Charlie

The Lady in Question
J-Pierre Morestan

Babies for Sale
J-Steve Burton/Oscar Hanson

Men Without Souls
J-Johnny Adams

Convicted Woman
J-Jim Brent

My Son Is Guilty
J-Barney

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
J-Joe Riley

ANNNNND, they're OFF!

'Game over for the planet' ? that's ridiculous

Isn't James Hanson the NASA scientist who goes all gaga over 'global warming'? What's happened to our educational institutions?

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^Enzoblue:
I kinda knew this already and I think a lot of people could draw the same conclusions if they bothered. I hope in his research he can draw deeper insights into the causes and give us something we couldn't already kinda guess.

I just wanna know...can conservatism be cured?


http://www.livescience.com/13608-brain-political-ideology-liberal-conservative.html

>> ^Enzoblue:

I kinda knew this already and I think a lot of people could draw the same conclusions if they bothered. I hope in his research he can draw deeper insights into the causes and give us something we couldn't already kinda guess.


I just wanna know...can conservatism be cured?

Reality has a liberal bias.