There are screams of “racist!!!” and calls from the Left for the thought police to silence me for writing yesterday that there is no longer an “us”. Migrants increasingly cluster into the same suburbs, just when we’ve got no symbols left to define us all.
Amanda Meade once again tries her bitter best to whip up the outrage:
The Australian Press Council has received an unspecified number of complaints about an article by Andrew Bolt that argues a “tidal wave” of migrants are swamping Australia, forming enclaves and “changing our culture”.
In a highly-inflammatory column headlined “The foreign invasion”, Bolt says migrant communities are not assimilating and failing to always speak English.
I didn’t in this “highly inflammatory” piece say all migrant communities aren’t assimilating. I said we couldn’t take assimilation for granted as we did when my own parents came over. Things have changed – the critical mass of migrants, the rise of multiculturalism and identity politics, and new technologies such as the Internet and satellite TV, beamed straight in from old homelands.
I should also note that Meade knows perfectly well that I do not get to write the headlines, which is unfortunate in respect of one newspaper which carried my column.
On Meade then goes, quoting a Labor MP who disgracefully suggests I am whipping up anti-Semitism – a foul and ignorant smear, given almost every literate Jew in Victoria would know that no mainstream journalist has defended their community more strongly, and few have done as many fundraisers:
The president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Jennifer Huppert, said articles such as Bolt’s do nothing for the cohesion of Australian society.
“There is a rise in ultra-rightwing activity in Victoria and this type of activity can fuel antisemitic, anti-Islamic and general racist debate and language in our community.”
I expect an apology from Huppert for this cheap smear. Not a word in my article disparaged Jews.
Read the article on Andrew Bolt’s blog.