There are a lot of things in our society that are bugging me at the moment. One of them being the dragged on debate of the marriage-equality.
First of all I still cannot gather the need for our mostly “straight” white male / female politicians to refute simple rights that were wrongly not given to a particular sector of the society in the first place. For me, discrimination based on your so called religious / Christian value is social terrorism on our society. You are no better than other people when you conduct such activities. You are even worse when you are conducting such activities in God’s name. While God’s wrath is unmatched and cannot be measured, be remembered that “not everyone calling his name will enter the Pearly Gates”. It is like Judi Dench’s response in Shakespeare in Love – people throwing out her name to suppress other so much that she felt her name is being worn out. I am sure the Christian God, who happened to be mine too, is sick and tired of people using His name to oppress others, while throughout the Biblical history He had time and time again saving the oppressed from the oppressing. The Bible is full of story about freedom and making things right. However, these so called modern “Christian politicians” seemed to have forgot what their Christian faith is about but gladly taking up the roles of Pharisees and Sadducees of the modern times. We all know well those went down in the Biblical history.
Another frequent argument these groups of politicians time and time again threw out to support their views is “political correctness”. Political correctness had been labelled by the Liberal National Coalition as social madness so many times that people started to lose track of what this is about. Political correctness itself is not a bad thing because it foster an understanding of respect to each other. It is when this was over applied to facilitate specific social political agenda that this became an issue. But guess what? Using political correctness as a defence is also the tactics this group of “cry political correctness foul politicians” do best. They don’t want to be labelled as bigots when they made bigotry comments and went even further to say that it is their right to bigotry. They also hated being called social fossils when it was proved that they were not moving on with time. Those are their rights to be politically correctly acknowledged.
Political correctness is not about avoiding but about respecting. Not calling people or labelling people because of their ethnicity, religious beliefs and sexual orientation is what we would expect for a modern civilised society. We are not living in a time where white supremacy rules the world and colonising the rest of the world under the disguise of preaching the Christian value to the savages. In the past century or so most of the world has moved on in a lightning speed, hanging tight to your old school White Colonising-Christian views and being criticised for doing so is not political correctness but social political correction. If you don’t like it don’t do it in the first place. If you do it own it up and prepare for the backlash. What these politicians are doing are like a bunch of spoiled brats crying foul when their bullying acts did not go their way and got caught by the rest of the society. So all of a sudden political correctness is the beast that needs to be tamed, but not the bullies in the social school yard.
What really surprised me is that time and time again these people still got elected into powerful positions. It is quite obvious that in Australia the political arena it is just a few bullying clique groups battling out against each other trying to take control of the country. They are not different to mafias or triads killing each other to keep their pockets full. When being called out about their behaviours and illogical hate speeches, it is not political correctness gone mad but political correction in works from the society. When 70% of the society think it is time to make marriage equality a basic right for everyone in the country, it is your duty, whom we are paying you through our tax money to deliver the results we want, not to spend $122 million on something you don’t intend to honour as an opinion poll so to avoid doing a job you personally don’t like. Whether you like it or not does not matter as you were paid to do the job. Otherwise what is the point of us financing your lifestyle if you are not delivering? Being called out for your inability to do your job is not political correctness but politically correcting your attitude to do your job properly.
At the time of writing the plebiscite was voted down again but these bunch of school yard bully white “straight” male politicians who loves attacking political correctness while using that as their defence will not rest to avoid their responsibilities. It is up to the Australian people to deliver the report card to them at the next election and I do hope everyone does that responsibly. At the moment we are stuck with a bunch of spoiled brats eating up the society’s resources and a Prime Minister who has no guts and spine at all to stand up to what once believed in (unless those were just political con job for votes). However I believe with a political correcting voter base we might eventually got what this country deserves – a responsible and levelled headed government that exactly delivers what this country needs and one of them without a doubt being marriage equality that rebalances the basic rights of our society.
