The Manly Sea Eagles rainbow jersey saga represents the new ‘progressive’ Holy Trinity of diversity, inclusion, and equality with a steep social penalty for failing to toe the line.
Anyone declining to affirm this new godhead, even if remaining neutral, find themselves denounced as heretics and subjected to public shaming. Progressives claim to promote tolerance but hypocritically exclude those with different views or beliefs, including those who do not actively demonstrate allegiance to progressive orthodoxy.
Identity politics has been weaponised to divide the believers from the non-believers and manufacture divisions that create unnecessary polarisation within society.
The Australia of today is accepting, open-minded,...
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