Confronting moral cowardice | Brendan O’Neill | Encounters

At the conclusion of Brendan O’Neill’s tour of Australia with the Institute of Public Affairs he sat down with John Roskam to discuss why the elites are trying to censor Elon Musk, the failure of centre-right political parties to fight for freedom, and why we need to fight back against the assault on our values.
In the discussion, Brendan and John also discuss how Australia has become woke, and why the elites fear they are losing control.
Chief political writer for sp!ked, Brendan O’Neill has written for publications including The Spectator magazine, The Sun and The Australian.
Brendan is also the author of A Heretic’s Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable, a clarion call on the need for dissenting voices to challenge the ideologies of elites and the political class.
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[@d00mg1rl]

Anti is a word used to silence debate. We should be allowed to talk about things, question it, get answers. Questioning things uncovers lies.

[@Aviva121]

Fantastic! So appreciate Mr. O’Neill and his contribution to our world today. May he be blessed to continue🇮🇱👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!

[@lawrenceplatzky8639]

Excellent

[@michelelevi3904]

Brendan O'Neill is a national treasure. I am in love

[@martomarto12]

Speaking sense. Woke is wrong.

[@leonharrison800]

The West is wrong. Bigotry and hate is wrong. Let the student protests grow. The real heroes!!!

[@johnbr59]

the problem is left/liberalism per se. the "democracy" experiment has failed, left/liberalism should be outlawed.

[@joancooney7724]

And libs are extremists so what's your piont ?

[@grannyannie2948]

Plato said democracy was the worst form of government. The best form of government is a leader who truly loves his people and the country, and we won't find them among politicians

[@johnfisher7143]

“People don’t like to be told what to do, they think for themselves”. I’m sorry Brendan but that’s just not true of Australians anymore. During the Covid years Australians absolutely did what they were told and showed no sign of thinking for themselves. They also took on a Stasi like penchant for informing on their neighbors to the police for infractions of covid orthodoxy. It was shocking to witness.

[@MrDyhard]

……only in the cities, where, from the perspectives of regional Australia, everyone has gone insane.

[@grannyannie2948]

In my state schools closed very briefly in the beginning. And where I live rurally, that was that. Nobody really social distanced. Nobody wore masks. And nobody dobbed because everyone broke minor rules, including the local cops. Vaccines is when government over reach began.

[@patscott6365]

Shocking indeed those Covid years and utterly gob-smackingly astounding that so many Aussies willingly and meekly submitted to uber authoritarianism. I migrated to Australia because of their irreverent, larrikin and open natured attitude, so different from the cowed Brits, hence my shock during Covid. I am a proud heretic. Thank you Brendan for your incisive mind and plain speaking. A wonderful talk. Many thanks again! ❤

[@grannyannie2948]

@@patscott6365 As I said that didn't happen in my region. But when the vax came these good rural people were naive about how little government cares about us. And it was horrific. Even living in the city I only ever knew one woman who'd had a stillborn baby. Now I know 3 in one street. I know a 12 yo with a bad heart condition. And dozens in their 50s who've had heart attacks and strokes. For a while they treated the jobless non compliant dreadfully. But now they regret. Most people in the UK could still work, we couldn't work, our children couldn't see doctors and our pets couldn't see vets. We didn't give in to go to a movie, a pub or cafe. I know a woman whose eight year old daughter broke her arm. She had to get it so they would set and plaster her daughter's arm. The Brits said horrible things to us online. From memory Brandon was pro 💉. Just more on the list. Never forgive, never forget.

[@johnfisher7143]

@@grannyannie2948 I can’t move on until there’s a proper accounting and people who were in power and made those horrendous and wrong headed decisions are held to account.

[@abfab2517]

Medieval hysteria ! yes. 100% agree. Social media medieval hysteria.

[@tomaszneosapiens5111]

They are confronting cowardice by being cowards. Talking solved nothing ever.

[@Frederer59]

The problem is ethnocentricity, a fancy word for tribalism. The blessing we Christians receive every Sunday is the gift, thanks to St. Paul, of universalism. We are post-ethnocentric i.e. worldcentric consciousness. Whether we live up to it every day is our challenge. So,bluntly, I'm not anti-Semetic, I'm post-Semetic. Btw, there is little attention given to the tens of thousands of Christians in Israel, Gaza, the wider middle-East, and Africa suffering terribly from ethnocentric persecution. Not a peep from the "Chatter Class" of the West. ❤🇨🇦

[@abfab2517]

BS 525.000 Palestinians in 1948. 5.5 millions now. Whining crying... for a pseudo genocide. Palestinians population x10 😂

[@lynnedwards1727]

History in schools on the major events, plus clear thinking and debating skills, should be compulsory.

[@Smee86]

5:30 yes so true.

[@Smee86]

11:46 They need to be taught to use more emoji on their divices and print up emojis.

[@Smee86]

🆒😎 Conversation.😎🆒

[@Smee86]

4:24 what happened on the 26th of October?

[@rachaelryan4076]

I’d really like to know why he approves the outcome of the voice referendum

[@drwhatson]

Because he has a rational mind and believes in democracy.

[@grannyannie2948]

The people spoke truth to power. It was discusting racist legislation

[@troubleabout5137]

Immigration and poor education is tge cause

[@Nigelcaygill]

Wish interviewers would realise we want the guests opinions not theirs.if I were being interviewed I would hold my hand up open palms. Example here of too long questions, showing off interviewer’s stored knowledge. Hate it .

[@judithknights-rayson9284]

The GREATEST GIFT apart from the Gift of ETERNAL LIFE -- given to those who receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour -- is the GIFT of FREEDOM OF CHOICE. This means we are not created to be puppets, dancing to someone else's tune, but that if we MAKE the WRONG DECISIONS, we HAVE THE FREEDOM to CHANGE OUR MINDS. In the 1950s, when I was in high school, one of our teachers told us that, "Within every GREAT CIVILIZATION are the SEEDS of ITS OWN DEMISE". I NEVER DREAMED that I would EXPERIENCE the DEMISE of MY OWN CIVILIZATION, which has been in existence for 2000 years, SINCE the BIRTH of CHRISTIANITY. The question is, WHAT has caused the DISINTEGRATION of our Western Society?

[@nascar0509]

"Upper class" definitely pretty much wholly bourgeois middle class.

[@ElizabethEaton-q8p]

I am tired of opposition parties that always spin the narrative back to the negative. Its not a debate, i take the affirmative you take the negative. Good governance is parties coming together with a plan for the countries wellbeing and its past, present and future. Current party line politics isnt working, it causes division. Which then causes instability.

[@Lucas-s8x]

Go to Stannard Angelo

[@icovolcevski6291]

😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😢❤😮❤😮❤😮😂😅😂

[@chrissi3193]

Amazing. Good luck with buzzing around the dunghill, without reference to God, Jesus, evil, demonic and satanic tactics. Islam will roll you both over if you don't see all this as spiritual assault on God..Spoiler alert. They lose. But so will you . And you don't need to!

[@kerrisibley762]

I hate the taxes since Albanese got voted in. I have friends that have worked their whole lives, 30 odd years to better their job and lives. Now that they finally earn a decent income, they now lose 48% in tax😞😠 THAT IS THEFT !!😡😡 on a high level ....😠

[@ElizabethEaton-q8p]

If they are paying that level of tax then they must be earning an extraordinary amount of money. So I would call it balance.

[@kerrisibley762]

@user-uu3xr3zm5p Not when they have worked their life making a career and working up within the company. The government didn't help them when they were on low incomes.. 48% is above and beyond reasonable.. 33.3% okay Nearly half of your income !! THEFT ON A HIGH LEVEL.. I bet parliamentarians don't lose that much in their taxes 🤔

[@grannyannie2948]

They could go back to a lower income. Most people don't have this problem

[@kerrisibley762]

@grannyannie2948 People can't survive as it is, with the price of rent, food, power, fuel, and everything else that continues to rise.. God help the future generations because the government won't!!

[@ElizabethEaton-q8p]

Top tax rate is 45 cents in dollar over $180,000. You can drop that if you salary sacrifice to superannuation goes down to 15 percent when you withdraw.. So there are ways to lower your tax. And most people in that tax bracket find ways to reduce by all manner and means.

[@HintonJohnLowe]

Plutofascists

[@jaydoole3169]

This is the worst interview I’ve seen with Brendan, I’ve been a fan. But it’s just going over the same horrible rubbish. We no the c torries are rubbish. Say why they don’t split. Say why people vote for parties? It’s a wank bank for intellectual’s.

[@johnl5316]

the appalling behavior during the virus

[@jimmydanmarkey]

IPA on Morals what a Farking Joke....

[@markrowley8177]

“SOCIALISM “

[@Yvette-p9q]

I spoke out against communism in my country and I’m doing again in the west! No one will shout me out!!

[@antoniahowarth-wass5001]

Great. Wish JR would not interrupt a lengthy answer. What BO says is worth hearing.

[@natashaszorkovszky1817]

No a hide laws is why it is happening

[@Smee86]

3:42 the Voice was a sad reminder that people have not seen or spoke to the Aboriginal people who need all the bulletpoints that the voice was asking for.😊

[@grannyannie2948]

My vote No card was handed to me my an Aboriginal man. And plenty of Aboriginal politicians on TV giving us bullet points. Reparations, treaty etc.

[@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457]

A very significant number of indigenous people do NOT want the voice for many good reasons

[@grannyannie2948]

My vote no card was handed to me by an Aboriginal man.

[@Smee86]

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 ok 🆒😎 Thank-you I didn't know.

[@Smee86]

@@grannyannie2948 🆒😎

[@junebaldwin5352]

What a miserable life listening to your feeling boo hoo .kids think you go to work and if some hurts you you leave

[@grimmertwin2148]

You mean Trump

[@leahjones8539]

Brilliant

[@ALEXALEX-nw6tw]

🇦🇺Commie Government On its last legs🇦🇺

[@joancooney7724]

Covid response under Morrison was disgraeful

[@Smee86]

What is Commie Government?

[@grannyannie2948]

​@@joancooney7724Especially when Schwab personally praised him for using covid to advance their aims

[@ElizabethEaton-q8p]

Commie is short for Communist. Clearly never lived under communism to use such a cheap shot phrase.

[@grannyannie2948]

@@ElizabethEaton-q8p Albo was previously a communist supporter.

[@Smee86]

Its because we have had 2 Apocalypse that i seen and the dinosaur 🦖🦕 would like to show them hate and anger with a huge RaaaaAaahhhhhhh. And the Aboriginal people want to play with their Animals Kingdom.