tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post3030987262417035989..comments2024-03-02T12:39:23.745+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Murdoch's empty philosophyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-50170832486382359522008-11-13T15:15:00.000+11:002008-11-13T15:15:00.000+11:00I think Murdoch overlooks the value of having a cu...I think Murdoch overlooks the value of having a cultural identity with a shared set of values. Most non-white countries understand this & aren't rushing to open their borders to be culturally enriched:<BR/><BR/>"A wide-ranging "global attitudes" survey of more than 45,000 people in 47 countries released yesterday by the Pew Research Center finds assorted populations are warm to the benefits of global trade. But they're cool — downright chilly in some cases — toward the toll it could exact on their national identities. <BR/><BR/>Should each country guard their innate culture and lifestyle? The answer was a rousing "yes" — again in 46 out of 47 of the countries. In the U.S., 62 percent said we should protect our way of life. Those sentiments were more pronounced among Republicans (71 percent) than Democrats (60 percent). <BR/><BR/>The number was just more than half in Britain, France and Germany, but 90 percent in Egypt, Indonesia and India. <BR/><BR/>Perils of immigration concerned people in 44 out of the 47 countries, where the majority of respondents said immigration should be more restricted in their homelands. <BR/><BR/>Only Japanese, South Koreans and Palestinians were comfortable with their immigration policies. Three-quarters of the American respondents wanted more restrictions; similar findings were revealed in Spain, Britain and Russia." <BR/><BR/>Interestingly, the Japanese are happy with their immigration policies, which are very strict. Demographically, 98% of the population are Japanese. <BR/><BR/>http://washingtontimes.com/news/2007/oct/05/immigration-loss-of-culture-worry-nations/<BR/><BR/>Even the highly touted benefits of diversity in the workplace aren't backed by evidence:<BR/><BR/>"The multibillion-dollar diversity industry is thriving in corporate America. But before you spend another dime on your diversity program, carefully consider this conclusion reached by Thomas A. Kochan, one of the most respected human resources management scholars in the country: "The diversity industry is built on sand," he declares. "The business case rhetoric for diversity is simply naïve and overdone. There are no strong positive or negative effects of gender or racial diversity on business performance."<BR/>http://www.workforce.com/section/11/feature/23/42/49/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-85830325537304698552008-11-11T15:41:00.000+11:002008-11-11T15:41:00.000+11:00It's the same these days with so-called "conservat...It's the same these days with so-called "conservative" magazines like <I>Quadrant</I>, of course. Every type of sleazy globalist multiculti apparatchik - preferably from some fourth-rate "university" or other - is allowed in <I>Quadrant</I>'s pages, so long as he/she utters a few token wails about mullahs. Only traditional conservatives (and more specifically traditionally Catholic conservatives) are banned from the magazine's pages - a fact that editor Keith Windschuttle, like his predecessor P. P. McGuinness, has never denied. (If he did deny it, he would be a liar, for which role I doubt that he is now sufficiently intelligent.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-78751266954398349152008-11-06T07:57:00.000+11:002008-11-06T07:57:00.000+11:00Jaz, Citizen Sane, agreed.The only thing I'd add i...Jaz, Citizen Sane, agreed.<BR/><BR/>The only thing I'd add is that you don't have to be an oligarch to take Murdoch's view of things.<BR/><BR/>As Citizen Sane points out in an excellent <A HREF="http://reclaimingaustralia.blogspot.com/2008/11/albrechtsen-ruddock-and-immigration.html" REL="nofollow">post</A> at his own site, right-liberal journalists (neoconservatives) like Janet Albrechtsen and Andrew Bolt generally support the idea of diverse ongoing immigration combined with assimilation into a set of liberal political values.<BR/><BR/>Yes, there's self-interest involved for men like Murdoch, but he's also expressing a long-standing philosophy of the liberal right.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-65580071496621187112008-11-05T22:59:00.000+11:002008-11-05T22:59:00.000+11:00Given that Rupert Murdoch traded his Australian ci...Given that Rupert Murdoch traded his Australian citizenship for an American passport decades ago, his professed concern for Australia’s future rings hollow. His loyalty is certainly not with Australia. <BR/><BR/>The truth is that Murdoch is a one-world globalist who views that nation-state as an obstacle to the free movement of labour. He and his fellow trans-national elites consider national sovereignty and borders to be tiresome inefficiencies on the global economy. What Murdoch and his post-national class of oligarchs envisage is a 21st century where the global economy and the corporations which dominate it are no longer constrained by nation-states. <BR/><BR/>If Murdoch had his way, Australia wouldn’t even exist in anything but a geographical sense.Citizen Sanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00386005570849066963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-67019194201317949382008-11-05T03:39:00.000+11:002008-11-05T03:39:00.000+11:00Of course, Murdoch stands to profit from his philo...Of course, Murdoch stands to profit from his philosophy (if you can call it that). It's fair to assume that Murdoch pushes it out of his own selfish economic interest.<BR/><BR/>I like the Randian spin: the greater good will be accomplished best by everyone being maximally and efficiently selfish. And we really need government to get out of the way for us to do that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com