A politician-free zone on Q&A last night; the panel were all from the Sydney Writers' Festival. It's a pleasure to hear from intelligent people who don't look at the world through the narrow lens of some ideology, and who are not trying to sell us something or convince us to think in a certain way.
And yet, these articulate and impressive thinkers hardly have access to an audience and are relegated to a fringe program, watched by a minority, while ratbags like the fake Imam being feted by the mainstream media at the moment because of his controversial comments against Islam, have access to the biggest megaphone of all.
Sometimes, on Q&A, the best comments arise from tweets from the viewers. Last night, somebody tweeted, "Political correctness used to be respect, politeness and good manners. Before it was weaponised."
And "Freedom of Speech" has become weaponised too and, sadly, two phrases which should be complementary have been pitted against each other.
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