Here he talks about white Australia's racist "rage" ...
Probably 3 or 4 months of the year I spend working in developing countries and it always surprises me that there's no rage there where there ought to be ...Gee, why would racially homogeneous nations be less angry than diversified Australia? Hmm? What could the difference be? Hmm? Homogeneous versus diversity. Hmm?
And in Australia, where we seem to have everything, there's more rage. People are angrier...
I think there should be zero tolerance when it comes to racism...
Things have changed in the last 50 years, the minority groups almost are the majority groups, and people need to have a complete different mindset about that. The absolute typical Australian is no longer the white fella who's wearing a pair of boardies ...
Of course, you don't need to be a brain surgeon to conclude that diversity is making white Australians unhappy, and we'd be infinitely more happy if we remained largely homogeneous. But can this genius brain surgeon see through his bias to the obvious truth? Nope, that's an inconvenient truth that would conclude diverse immigration should be stopped.
Teo is a textbook case of motivated reasoning, where one cannot (or will not) see facts in plain sight because of one's bias:
The theory of motivated reasoning builds on a key insight of modern neuroscience: Reasoning is actually suffused with emotion (or what researchers often call “affect”). Not only are the two inseparable, but our positive or negative feelings about people, things, and ideas arise much more rapidly than our conscious thoughts, in a matter of milliseconds—fast enough to detect with an EEG device, but long before we’re aware of it...File under: genius brain surgeon ignores obvious truth to suit his ethnic bias of wanting to further colonise Australia with non-whites until the "minority becomes the majority".
We’re not driven only by emotions, of course—we also reason, deliberate. But reasoning comes later, works slower—and even then, it doesn’t take place in an emotional vacuum. Rather, our quick-fire emotions can set us on a course of thinking that’s highly biased, especially on topics we care a great deal about...
In other words, when we think we're reasoning, we may instead be rationalizing. Or to use an analogy offered by University of Virginia psychologist Jonathan Haidt: We may think we're being scientists, but we're actually being lawyers. Our "reasoning" is a means to a predetermined end—winning our "case"—and is shot through with biases...
Teo's comments are infuriating and constitute a slap in the face to this country's historic white majority.
ReplyDeleteTeo has the attitude of an invader. He wants to see white Australians marginalized and minoritized so that recently-arrived non-white immigrants like himself can feel more at home. While white Australians are expected to forgo their own group interests and be "race blind", non-white immigrants like Teo are free to openly champion their racial interests and push to see Australia transformed into a minority-white country.
It just show that such people do not come to this country to become like us but instead replace us.
Teo could have easily tested his hypothesis by asking all those peaceful third world countries he visits: would you be happy if we colonised your country with foreigners to the point where your are no longer a majority?
ReplyDeleteI bet he wouldn't get a peaceful answer. That's how obviously stupid Teo's argument is. It just goes to show that biased reasoning does not escape even those who are qualified to know better.
Sorry gwallan, I had to delete your comment. Whilst Teo does appear to want an Australia where whites are no longer a majority, your comment goes beyond that and puts words in his mouth that simply aren't there.
ReplyDeleteI share your frustration in seeing Oz colonised by foreigners, but we need to be careful what we say in these litigious times. I'm pushing my luck just calling him "demented".