Frank wrote on Feb 1
st, 2024 at 11:38am:
This is your legacy, Ita Buttrose. If only you had spent the last five years enforcing the ABC charter instead of being a cipher for a workers’ collective. The more you try to appease the entitled and the outraged, the more they will take advantage of you. That is human nature. Always has been, always will be.
In short, demands for a culturally safe workplace are sophistry. They hold that minority employees who screech oppression and victimhood have a higher calling. Culturally safe means editorial policies requiring accuracy do not apply to them, because what they say is their “truth”. Culturally safe means they do not have to answer to the ABC complaints process. Culturally safe means they get a platform for their prejudices, whether that is by accusing Israel of genocide, or browbeating white people about their privilege, or ranting about stolen land and reparations. Culturally safe means they are a victim of racism, misogyny, or Islamophobia when their extreme views result in audience backlash, and that ABC management must take urgent measures to ‘protect’ them. And culturally safe means that mainstream Australians, the very people these presenters despise, must fund their activism and livelihood.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-mocker-my-dream-for-a-culturally-safe-working-environment-for-abc/news-story/ecbe8c88c9c5d32517e76fac7b02cb94
Well said.
Rosebutt and others are not honest with their concern about the underprivileged, they're giving the grievance brigade an outlet to deflect their rage away from the likes of themselves by masquerading as being equally outraged, all the while ensuring that criticism remains deflected.
Malcolm Turnbull played that game during the referendum. He was always a No voter but dressed himself as a Yes voter after it was almost certain that it would lose.