Look for dignity: PM outlines his vision for Australian society
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again struck out at modern-day cancel culture and the identity politics being practiced by others.
In a speech at a United Israel Function in Sydney on Thursday night, Morrison referenced Australiaās Judeo-Christian heritage as he talked about faith and community.
āSeeing the inherent dignity of all human beings is the foundation of morality,ā he said.
āIt makes us more capable of love and compassion, of selflessness and forgiveness.
āBecause if you see the dignity and worth of another person, another human being, the beating heart in front of you, youāre less likely to disrespect them, insult or show contempt or hatred for them, or seek to cancel them, as is becoming the fashion these days.ā
Cancel culture is the internet equivalent of ostracism, where a person is ācancelledā by others for their views or actions.
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Morrison also highlighted individual and personal responsibility, its relevance to citizenship and the role of the state in society.
āWhere we once understood our rights in terms of our protections from the state, now it seems these rights are increasingly defined by what we expect from the state,ā he said.
āAs citizens, we cannot allow what we think we are entitled to, to become more important than what we are responsible for as citizens.ā
Morrison pushed back against social and moral corrosion ācaused by the misuse of social media and the abuse that often occurs thereā.
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āBut I would say it also includes the growing tendency to commodify human beings through identity politics,ā he added.
āYou are more than your gender, you are more than your race, you are more than your sexuality, you are more than your ethnicity, you are more than your religion, your language group, your age.ā
Earlier this week, Morrisonās personal faith came under the spotlight when details of a speech he gave to a national Christian conference earlier this month were made public.
The prime minister, a Pentecostal, spoke of social media being used by āthe evil oneā to undermine society and described identity politics as ācorrosiveā.
He also spoke of doing Godās work and he sometimes used the Evangelical practice of ālaying on of handsā while embracing people who had suffered from trauma or natural disaster.
On talkback radio this morning, Morrison defended talking publicly about his faith.
āWe have Christian talks to Christians about Christian things,ā Morrison said.
āI donāt think thatās really a newsflash, but I have been, I suppose, disappointed about how some of that has been mischaracterised.ā
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