Hatred blows in from the Left
When the hoax was blowing through the media last week the hot air blew in some strange non-readers. Most had never actually looked at a copy of the magazine and only found their way to Quadrant Online with difficulty.
One of them was Dr Kerryn Goldsworthy. She blogs on Left sites as Pavlov’s Cat and is a good representation of the cultural gatekeepers who keep the culture dismally PC and utterly Left. For almost 20 years she taught at Melbourne University. An author and reviewer she was an editor of the Australian Book Review and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. When she cut loose about Quadrant her attitudes and frozen in time prejudices captured the platitudes of the Left establishment she belongs to and writes for and provided a good example of the Left totalitarianism which will not allow any dissent to be voiced:
If you look at Quadrant’s home page you will see that almost every single item featured there has been conceived and written through the…
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