Nasty, Hypocritical Pretentious Journalists - Typical (small 'l') liberals

Again, Leigh Sales engages in the ABC liberal-style advocacy journalism which hypocritically stands up for minorities, in this case, refugees. This is not to say she is the only journalist who does so, and so it would be unfair to say she is the only person who does so. However, she is the classic example of an advocacy journalist. Her interview with Immigration Minister Scott Morrison involved asking questions based on the assumption that her opinions are facts or, even worse, truth. She starts of with a leading question about the way 'asylum seekers' were treated, such that there is no way the interviewee can argue against her (superficial?) opinion without looking like he does not understand the question. When he tries to put forward his case, she cuts him off.

Sales, like many liberals, is like a growing child who assumes that anyone who disagrees with her, or tries to build a case against her is bad, evil or not to be trusted. Many liberals, one could suspect, feel sympathy for people who are deviant, or engage in illegal activity because they themselves are perhaps not strong enough or moral enough to follow the law where the law is morally and ethically sound.

People identify with people who have one thing in common with them and have no capacity to attack (having grounds to criticise) them tend to feel sympathy for them, or even think that the bad behaviour of people similar to them is justifiable. On the other hand, those who one perceives to be  capable of attacking them and have something in common with the perceived potential attacker are despised the most. This is perhaps why the media typically feels "sorry" for minority groups - because it makes them look like they are giving the minorities a voice.

Running Away (2)

She was sent to a detention centre by authorities. She was a woman who only knew who to care for her own cosmetics, and even did not mind starving to death. She was pregnant and bawled at the other women whenever they did not ask her if she was fine. As if she did it herself.

After 2 weeks in the detention centre, the authorities notified her that they did not approve her application. She had thrown her documents of the boat when coming to the land of milk and honey. The authorities had contacted with authorities of her home country. They had informed them that these group of boat people were mostly former prisoners of felony.

They had come to the new land to defy the law. They were a lawless bunch of self-entitled prisoners who were experts at playing victim. It was found that they salvaged their own boat on purpose on the way to the new land, leaving 187 people dead. Yet, the authorities made it their responsibility to check for missing bodies, as though it was their problem, their fault. If only they were not so naive.

Note: This is a fictional story. The characters are not based on real people.

Running Away

She fled from her home to come to a land of milk and honey by boat. For 40 days and 40 nights, she starved and starved. She always said to herself "why can't I have want others have?" She craved for more. She fought for more "freedom" and yet feared the government who wanted to crack down on troublemakers like her.

She finally arrived on the shores of the land of milk and honey. Only to ask for botox and, of all things, breast enlargements. The next thing she will ask for is fake breasts. Just to look pretty. Anyone who criticises her is deemed a racist because she is an asylum seeker depite her sense of self-entitlement.

Note: This is not written as a true story. The character is fictional although it is based on a true story.