No evidence required (Afghan remix)
I took issue with John Ray’s baseless accusations against “Africans” a little while back. On that occasion, Ray felt that he understood the situation so well that he didn’t need facts to support his arguments. True to form, Ray is at it again, this time with regards to Afghan refugees. As an introduction to a recent copy-and-paste job, Ray writes:
Most of the Afghans Rudd is allowing into the country are going to become welfare dependant with no skills (except in thuggery) and with contempt for Australian society. Warlike Muslims are exactly what Australia does not need
There’s more – equally as ignorant – but that excerpt is more than enough to demonstrate the man’s arrogance, simple-mindedness, and blatant racism. Of course, Ray doesn’t feel the need to substantiate any of these claims with evidence. When you’re as educated as he is, you simply know everything.
Fittingly, Ray’s commenters seem to be just as highly educated. “GGM” writes:
All I can say, is that I hope they are not very religious Afganis. If we are taking in the very religious ones, then we are taking in the most barbaric, and uncivilised of all the mulsims nations’s people. These are the people who gave the world the Taliban, and a home to AQ.
Those bloody MULSIMS!
How to spot a Third World shithole in one stupid step
It’s happened to all of us. There’s a foreign country that you absolutely despise. Yet you know nothing about the place. So how do you know whether it can be derided in your next blog post as a “Third World shithole”?
Presenting: MK’s “Third World Shithole” Test!
On the one side you have Iran, just another 3rd world islamic shithole that no one would give a damn about if they didn’t have oil or were pursuing nuclear weapons. If you stop and think about it, Iran hasn’t produced anything for the world, if you look around you, is there something that was made in Iran, did they produce some fancy TV or toaster that can fry eggs as well, no.
Also known as the Toaster Test, MK’s robust theoretical framework enables the lazy armchair warrior to make firm decisions about places they know nothing about.
Copy and paste
I’d wanted to spend a few minutes reading and responding to Dr John Ray’s blogs this week. Unfortunately, except for a few confused words about Nazism and environmentalism – including gems like “Mussolini was a Greenie too” – and a limp and evasive response to my previous critique, John didn’t actually write anything. It was a week of copying and pasting the work of others. So no response from me. Perhaps John will write something next week. Failing that, I’ll try responding to his Tweets; surely some of those contain his own work.
No evidence required
When you’re a doctor (sic) with millions of blogs, you don’t need evidence or facts in order to make an argument. And the beauty of the interwebs is that people who think like you will not ask for any evidence of your claims anyway.
Dr John Ray has insider information about recent violent crimes directed against Indian students in Australia. The articles that he quotes (i.e. copies and pastes) don’t specify that “Africans” are responsible for the assaults. Indeed, official police statements say that many of the crimes are opportunistic, not racially motivated. Video footage of one assault shows that the perpetrators were of mixed ethnicity. But none of that fools the good doctor. He knows who’s to blame.
Africans.
Last month, without any evidence to support his claims, John declared:
Despite the predictable official denials, these attacks are overwhelmingly by young African “refugees” that the government has kindly lumbered us with. Not only do the Africans contribute little themselves (they are mostly on the dole) but they attack those who do — greatly damaging Australia’s reputation in the process.
His unsubstantiated theory got a run last week, too:
…even though nobody is publicly admitting that it is mostly Africans who are attacking the Indians.
It’s not the first time he’s alleged some kind of cover-up about the African menace in our suburbs. He made a similar claim back in February:
And we mustn’t under any circumstances let anybody know how dangerous Africans can be, must we?
When an assault in Brisbane was blamed on young Sudanese men, John wrote about “African problems in Brisbane too”. This was, declared the doctor:
An example of the thanks Australia gets for taking them in as refugees.
Of course, the accused men have since been found not guilty, although you won’t read that on any of John’s blogs.
Dr Ray is, of course, a fringe idiot. No one listens to him. Not even his fellow bloggers. For instance, here’s how MK of A Western Heart has responded to an assault in the western Sydney suburb of Harris Park:
Well finally we have some more info on this, so it’s not whites, it’s actually middle-easterners, you know those peaceable, tolerant, loving muslims.
Clearly MK hasn’t read any of John’s blogs over the past few months, or he’d know that it’s the Africans who are attacking Indian students. Besides that, he obviously doesn’t know much about Harris Park. If the assault in Harris Park was carried out by kids of Middle Eastern background, then they’re likely to be Lebanese Christians, not Muslims.
Africans? Middle Eastern Muslims? Same same. The common elements in these two seemingly contradictory views are more important than the differences. Both blame a minority “other”, and neither utilises facts or evidence. I’ve repeatedly challenged John to provide evidence of his claims. I’m still waiting.
For the most part, bloggers like John Ray and MK deserve to be ignored. However, when they peddle nonsense like this on their various blogs and “mirror sites”, it’s important that someone pulls them up. Especially when the commenters and bloggers who inhabit their part of the blogosphere do nothing to challenge such blatant dishonesty.
