Us Verses Them
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In Australia...
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there is a ...
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an attempt by our politicians
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to play us off against
one another.
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And they do that by framing ‘us’
as good and ‘others’ as bad.
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They then can justify setting
up systems of protection
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and surveillance to protect
‘us’ against ‘them’.
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And then they can justify putting
‘them’ in detention centres
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where they are treated
unmercifully.
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The ‘us’ and ‘them’
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language is being used to justify
taking care of ‘ourselves’
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and disregarding
the rights of ‘others’.
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In Australia... there is a ... an attempt by our politicians to play us off against one another. And they do that by framing ‘us’ as good and ‘others’ as bad. They then can justify setting up systems of protection and surveillance to protect ‘us’ against ‘them’. And then they can justify putting ‘them’ in detention centres where they are treated unmercifully. The ‘us’ and ‘them’ language is being used to justify taking care of ‘ourselves’ and disregarding the rights of ‘others’.