The Maxim known as Hanlon’s Razor sates:
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I submit the following evidence:
“I am a little bemused, to be honest. This wasn’t something I deliberately set out to raise … This thing seems to have taken on a life of its own,” Mr Andrews said in an interview with The Age. He said he had not spoken to the Prime Minister all week.
“What I would have to call a left-wing conspiracy theory that this is the new Tampa is just so far off the mark it’s laughable.”
Haha, that is funny isn’t Minister? We thought your racism and vilification had political motivations. Turns out you really are just an idiotic racist, how tragic.
Oh it gets better, remember this secret report citing evidence of just how bad these refugees are?
Well he released a summary of it, citing no actual evidence or statistics. He now admits:
He also conceded that a dossier he released this week, which claimed African refugees were forming gangs, fighting in nightclubs and attacking other families, was based on “anecdotal” feedback from the community.
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“By its nature, what the community is saying to the department, that part is anecdotal,” Mr Andrews said. “We know as a matter of empirical data this is a group of people who have lower levels of education, more have come from refugee camps. In the end you make decisions based on a whole range of evidence, some data, some anecdotal, that’s always been the way of Government.”
So the hard data they have on these refugees is they have low levels of education and come from refugee camps. What a scoop minister, that’s all the evidence I need to conclude failures (if any) of the Sudanese community to be accepted and integrated into the community must be because they have failed.
Now for the final nail in the coffin of stupidity:
Mr Andrews disputed Victorian police commissioner Christine Nixon’s assertion that the Sudanese were not over-represented in crime statistics. “You can use data in all sorts of ways,” he said.
You have your math and I have mine. Sigh. Have I mentioned that Kevin Andrews Must Resign?
As Tony Wright of The Age writes:
Whether Andrews was whispering an unsubtle message to the hateful or whether he is merely incompetent hardly matters: it has been clear for some time he does not suit such a sensitive portfolio as immigration in this nation of immigrants.
At the end of the day when you get a tick of approval from Pauline Hanson it’s time to go.
Senate candidate Pauline Hanson has congratulated the federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews on a decision to cut the number of African refugees allowed into Australia.
The One Nation founder says refugees carry disease and escalate crime.
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“Do you want to see increased crime on our streets? Do you want to see increased violence?” she said.
“Do you want to see your daughter or a family member end up with aids or anyone for that matter?”
If you agree that it’s time for Andrews to go, why not let him know? Especially if you live in the seat of Menzies.
Once again let’s judge the man by his own words. In his first speech to parliament he said:
We can create an atmosphere in which social justice can flourish by encouraging the wealth creators, the great Australian middle class, so that we can best support the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. When Count Dracula arises to take over the leadership of this caring and compassionate Labor Party, let us not be taken in by more crocodile talk of equity and social justice achieved. Let us judge the caring and compassionate Labor Administration by all its pomps and deeds. By them this Government must be known.
I ask you to judge the caring and compassionate Minister by all his pomps and deeds. Be they by malice or stupidity.
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