Sack Andrew Bolt


Sack Andrew Bolt
The issue
Andrew Bolt has consistently used his position of employment with News Corp to express severe bigotry and leave no obvious room for moral growth or respective change.
He steadily perpetuates regressive thought in our society and no longer deserves to be given the opportunity to have his deplorable idea of 'journalism', nor his hateful jargon, reach any ears or eyes.
Though, of course, Australia should wholeheartedly embrace freedom of speech (though we do not have any constitutional right to it), Bolt deserves to be subjected to the rules of tolerance workplaces should be implementing and conducting himself in a professional way, that is conducive with an unprejudiced society.
He should not be paid to continuously spread his perversely detrimental opinions and promote deceptive ideas about our countries history (among hurtfully addressing many other sensitively prevalent and important subjects), that further prevent us from the harmonious progressions of equality that we desperately need.
Examples of which he proves his extreme intolerance and inability to address our most apparent issues with impartiality or any kind of pragmatism are as follows:
Refusal to recognize colonial wrongdoings:
"Prizes For Singing About How Awful The Colonisers Were."
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/prizes_for_singing_about_how_awful_the_colonisers_were/)
"It is now a sin - even a crime against high art - to mention that despite all the apologies, all the teaching, all the ceremonies and all the newspaper stories, no one to this day has been able to name even 10 of the children allegedly stolen by officials just for being Aborigines. Even the courts cannot find them, for all the activists now appointed to the judiciary. Yet I predict that questioning the “stolen generations” myth will soon be ruled unlawful.
But never mind the facts, children, just sing along."
"Condemning child savers as child stealers: the poison of the “stolen generations” myth."(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/condemning_child_savers_as_child_stealers_the_poison_of_the_stolen_generati/)
"No politician or education bureaucrat dares question the myth even though it’s become toxic, persuading some welfare officials to leave Aboriginal children in dangers they’d never tolerate if those children were white.
And it’s allowed activists to praise the kind of child-rearing they should condemn, and to attack those who rescue rather than those who abuse."
Progressing global warming skepticism:
"Media Watch: the ABC’s goon squad for the warmist faith."
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/media_watch_the_abcs_goon_squad_for_the_warmist_faith/)
"Not one host of the ABC’s main current affairs programs questions the prevailing global warming alarmism.
Worse, Media Watch, an ABC program allegedly devoted to picking up media mistakes, has been turned into a policeman of this orthodoxy, punishing sceptics and ignoring the legion of howlers, exaggerations and distortions by alarmists."
Perpetuating intolerance & racism:
"Is it fair to import such danger?"
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/is_it_fair_to_import_such_danger/)
"Sweden is very generous to refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. The price is increased violence."
"No jobs in the desert, so why keep the towns?"
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_jobs_in_the_desert_so_why_keep_the_towns/)
"The Left must accept that tiny bush towns with no jobs, few services and tiny schools cannot produce the living standards they demand for Aborigines.
In the end, the only viable future - or “sustainable” future, in the Left’s jargon - for generations of Aboriginal children will be integration, not life as a museum exhibit."
To further prove his racist disposition, the Federal Court of Australia found that Andrew Bolt had "contravened section 18 (c) of the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles published in the Herald Sun in 2009."
(http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/bolt-loses-highprofile-race-case-20110928-1kw8c.html#ixzz3hYtaXuxh)
The woman who initiated the case, Pat Eatock, stated, "It was never about free speech, it has always been a question of professionalism, and the reality is that the original articles were not professional journalism."
This is not the kind of public figure we need to be celebrating, nor granting any kind of air time in Australia. We need people who promote societal growth, acceptance and complete equality, people who recognize the wrongs of our ancestors and permit positive change to begin to try and heal the heinous inflictions they caused for Indigenous Australians.
We must hold people accountable for their restrictions of such and therefore stop their uncompromising attempts at further oppression, like those of Andrew Bolt.

The issue
Andrew Bolt has consistently used his position of employment with News Corp to express severe bigotry and leave no obvious room for moral growth or respective change.
He steadily perpetuates regressive thought in our society and no longer deserves to be given the opportunity to have his deplorable idea of 'journalism', nor his hateful jargon, reach any ears or eyes.
Though, of course, Australia should wholeheartedly embrace freedom of speech (though we do not have any constitutional right to it), Bolt deserves to be subjected to the rules of tolerance workplaces should be implementing and conducting himself in a professional way, that is conducive with an unprejudiced society.
He should not be paid to continuously spread his perversely detrimental opinions and promote deceptive ideas about our countries history (among hurtfully addressing many other sensitively prevalent and important subjects), that further prevent us from the harmonious progressions of equality that we desperately need.
Examples of which he proves his extreme intolerance and inability to address our most apparent issues with impartiality or any kind of pragmatism are as follows:
Refusal to recognize colonial wrongdoings:
"Prizes For Singing About How Awful The Colonisers Were."
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/prizes_for_singing_about_how_awful_the_colonisers_were/)
"It is now a sin - even a crime against high art - to mention that despite all the apologies, all the teaching, all the ceremonies and all the newspaper stories, no one to this day has been able to name even 10 of the children allegedly stolen by officials just for being Aborigines. Even the courts cannot find them, for all the activists now appointed to the judiciary. Yet I predict that questioning the “stolen generations” myth will soon be ruled unlawful.
But never mind the facts, children, just sing along."
"Condemning child savers as child stealers: the poison of the “stolen generations” myth."(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/condemning_child_savers_as_child_stealers_the_poison_of_the_stolen_generati/)
"No politician or education bureaucrat dares question the myth even though it’s become toxic, persuading some welfare officials to leave Aboriginal children in dangers they’d never tolerate if those children were white.
And it’s allowed activists to praise the kind of child-rearing they should condemn, and to attack those who rescue rather than those who abuse."
Progressing global warming skepticism:
"Media Watch: the ABC’s goon squad for the warmist faith."
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/media_watch_the_abcs_goon_squad_for_the_warmist_faith/)
"Not one host of the ABC’s main current affairs programs questions the prevailing global warming alarmism.
Worse, Media Watch, an ABC program allegedly devoted to picking up media mistakes, has been turned into a policeman of this orthodoxy, punishing sceptics and ignoring the legion of howlers, exaggerations and distortions by alarmists."
Perpetuating intolerance & racism:
"Is it fair to import such danger?"
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/is_it_fair_to_import_such_danger/)
"Sweden is very generous to refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and Africa. The price is increased violence."
"No jobs in the desert, so why keep the towns?"
(http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_jobs_in_the_desert_so_why_keep_the_towns/)
"The Left must accept that tiny bush towns with no jobs, few services and tiny schools cannot produce the living standards they demand for Aborigines.
In the end, the only viable future - or “sustainable” future, in the Left’s jargon - for generations of Aboriginal children will be integration, not life as a museum exhibit."
To further prove his racist disposition, the Federal Court of Australia found that Andrew Bolt had "contravened section 18 (c) of the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles published in the Herald Sun in 2009."
(http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/bolt-loses-highprofile-race-case-20110928-1kw8c.html#ixzz3hYtaXuxh)
The woman who initiated the case, Pat Eatock, stated, "It was never about free speech, it has always been a question of professionalism, and the reality is that the original articles were not professional journalism."
This is not the kind of public figure we need to be celebrating, nor granting any kind of air time in Australia. We need people who promote societal growth, acceptance and complete equality, people who recognize the wrongs of our ancestors and permit positive change to begin to try and heal the heinous inflictions they caused for Indigenous Australians.
We must hold people accountable for their restrictions of such and therefore stop their uncompromising attempts at further oppression, like those of Andrew Bolt.

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Petition created on 1 August 2015