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

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

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For the last two weeks, I've had the great pleasure of traveling around Australia and speaking at various events in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and Canberra. While a terrific honour for me, this is undoubtedly a bad sign for Australia. The tragedy of my career is that I say obvious things that everyone knows and am lavished with entirely unmerited praise and response. It pains me to point this out, but if Constantine Kissin has been invited to give a series of talks in your country, all is not well. This is the bad news for Australia. It appears to have been infected with the same mind virus as the rest of the anglosphere. The symptoms are all too familiar. Identity politics fueled by the false teaching of history. Political polarization. Two-tier policing with anti-lockdown protests brutally suppressed, followed by the police standing by as crowds chant gas the Jews outside the Sydney Opera House

due to fears of upsetting social cohesion. The number of children being treated for gender dysphoria, at Victoria's Royal Children's Hospital's Gender Clinic has increased by over a thousand percent in less than a decade. Some journalists at the ABC, the country's national broadcaster, avoid revealing their nuanced political views to colleagues for fear of appearing insufficiently woke. Corporations jump on every progressive cause with enthusiasm. Activists want to cancel Australia Day.

Instead of being a day of national unity, they want to turn it into one of shame and self-flagellation. It is all happening for the same reasons too. In the words of pioneer investor Peter Thiel, courage is now in shorter supply than genius. This is sadly also true in the land down under. While the centre left appeases its extremist fringe, many on the centre right hesitate to challenge the cultural vandalism they observe

for fear of being described as culture warriors. And with good reason, while the symptoms of the mind virus are visible to outside observers like me and those in the media and politics, in truth, for the moment, the infection remains comparatively asymptomatic. This is the good news. As things stand, Australia's biggest challenge is not extremism, it is apathy born of comfort. Life here is good, and the differences to the rest of the anglosphere are remarkable. Unlike major American and increasingly British cities, the streets and parks here are not overrun with people suffering from the scourges of addiction, homelessness and crime. Sydney and

Melbourne ranked among the top 10 safest cities in the world in the Economist Intelligence Unit's Safe Cities Index 2021, and as the third and fourth most livable cities in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Livability Index 2023. With mining, drilling in agriculture responsible for over 70% of the country's exports, Australia has highly paid jobs for those outside of the laptop class. A mine truck driver can earn over 130,000 Australian dollars a year. that's nearly 70,000 pounds, while going down into the mine can bring as much as 250,000 Aussie dollars, 130,000 pounds. I know many lawyers, senior doctors and other professionals in London who can only

dream of such earnings. Indeed, a doctor friend doubled her salary the day she moved to Australia from the UK. And while many will tell you that political polarization is the worst it's ever been, they'll often do so while sitting around the table with people of different political viewpoints. As a senior politician put it at one such gathering, I don't want the other party to be elected, but I know they eventually will be, and I want them to be the best possible government for Australia when they are. It's hard to put into words how much this is not the case in Britain and America. On cultural issues too, while apathy is how woke activists are able to continue hollowing out the country's institutions, when forced to step away from the Barbie and vote in the Aboriginal

voice referendum last year, ordinary Australians made their feet. clear. Fronted by the courageous Jacinta Price, the No campaign overturned a one-sided onslaught from the country's media, corporate and political elite, with 60% voting against embedding identity politics in the Constitution. On immigration too, Australians engage in debates that many of us would give our right arms to have. While tens of thousands of people come to the UK on small boats illegally every year and millions stream in through the poorer southern border of the United States, Australia has comprehensive comprehensively solved this problem. Far from being some sort of voodoo magic, which is what it feels

like it would take to address this issue in our countries, all that was needed for the then Prime Minister Tony Abbott to stare down a resistance civil service and legal challenges to deliver Operation Sovereign borders in 2013. While Abbott still attracts criticism and protest, as I discovered when I had the honour of joining him on stage at Sydney University event, the facts of the matter are simple. Seventy-four people came to Australia. illegally on boats in 2023, down from 17,202 in 2012. It can be done. It just takes balls, and miraculously, some Aussie politicians still have them. In many ways, traveling to Australia from Britain feels like a journey 10 years into the past. In previous decades, that would have sounded

like a hacked joke meant to paint Aussies as provincial and unsophisticated people. But today, it is both a compliment and a warning. Australians talk proudly of having the most successful multicultural country in the world, because they've yet to discover what both David Cameron and Angela Merkel were forced to confess many years ago. Multiculturalism doesn't work. Neither Cameron nor Merkel were hard-right culture warriors, but the reality of what they saw in their respective countries forced them to acknowledge the truth. Immigration, when carefully managed and highly selective, can offer tremendous benefits. But the higher the level of migration and the more divergent the cultural and religious backgrounds from which people come, the more punitive the diminishing returns.

When I came to the UK in the mid-90s, the British public were entirely unconcerned about immigration, with just 3% describing it as a major issue in the year that I came. Back in the early 90s, net migration was running at about 54,000 people a year. This was followed almost immediately by the hugely popular election of Tony Blair, who abandoned all caution with Britain welcoming more people during his premiership, then had come between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and 1950. David Cameron, who I mentioned earlier, his conservative successor and his innumerable replacements, failed to stem the tide.

Despite the popular uprising that we call Brexit, the latest net migration figures up to June 2023 were 672,000 people. The result? Sectarian clashes in major British cities. Parliament abandoning its own rules to appease Islamists and rising ethnic. tensions. Concerns about social cohesion, so widely shared by police chiefs and politicians across the Western world, have actually contributed to its decline. It seems to me that Australia is in danger of making many of the same mistakes. In the year ending 30 June 2023, legal migration contributed a net

gain of 518,000 people to the country's population. This is a record level, and for a country of just 26 million people, this is a higher level of immigration per capita than even in the UK. The creation of a two-tier conversation about race is also firmly underway. An Aussie football player pleaded not guilty in a London court recently and is fighting to have the charge of racially aggravated harassment of the officer thrown out after allegedly calling him a stupid white bastard. The officer is white and Sam Kerr, the player in question, is not. She not only refused to apologize, but has in fact secured apologies from people like former Sokaru and prominent anti-racism advocate Craig Foster who initially criticized her comments.

In his pathetic and grovelling apology to Kerr, Foster showed all the signs of having been properly re-educated. Citing the Diversity Council of Australia's definition of racism, which references the perpetrator being in a position of race-based societal power, Foster said racism cannot be committed against a white person as they're not a member of a marginalized group. This is the great paradox of the woke takeover of any society. Why are you being a divisive culture warrior? They'll scream at you, as they take you.

the foundations of your society apart brick by brick. It is difficult to oppose robustly until the majority of people notice the problem, by which point it may be too late. Getting ordinary Australians to recognize the threat before the dangerous threshold is reached is the biggest challenge for the country's sensible elite. Whether they can succeed remains to be seen. If you enjoy these videos you should know that they're available on my substacks weeks and sometimes even months ahead of coming out here. So head on over now and make sure you subscribe.

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