Knee-jerk Bob
Thank God Bob Carr is no longer our Foreign Minister.
After reading his Age article below, imagine the havoc he would cause at our South African embassy every time he watched Breaker Morant on Netflix - he’d be on the blower demanding they round up some descendants of the Boers to give them free visas to Australia!
Bob Carr, of all people [sic], has fallen for that repugnant notion that a people can inherit a collective, historical guilt, despite the fact that the victims and perpetrators have long since passed.
The most egregious example of this is that of Jewish deicide, the notion that the Jews as a people will always be collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus, even through the successive generations following his death.
The notion that modern Australians collectively somehow carry the guilt of a past massacre of a group of Aboriginal people, and thus should pay ‘reparations’ in the form Constitutional power to another group of Aboriginal people who are largely unrelated to the massacre victims, is a totally repugnant idea that has no place in modern Australia.
Despite the fact that any massacre is a terrible event, and not to be condoned or glossed over in any way, Bob Carr should, on reflection be ashamed of putting pen to paper with such a looney justification for voting on an important political decision.
The YES case must be totally bereft of intelligent arguments if they are wheeling out the likes of Bob Carr with his ‘At the Movies’ scholarship [time to bring in Mr Hollywood, John Michael Howson, for the NO campaign methinks]
Compare Bob ‘the Tosser’ above, with Bob ‘the clear thinker’ below, in his 2012 interview with Patricia Karvelas, on proposals for constitutional change.
"To get constitutional change in Australia you need support right across the political spectrum. You require virtually NO opposition. "And the proposition needs to be simple. "If there's any hint of unintended consequences -- for example, an untidy debate about who exactly qualifies for the description 'indigenous' -- then the proposition will be defeated.
- Bob Carr 2012
Source: The Australian
