In which the crisis in Western Civilisation still continues ...

The pond was vastly amused to read the reptiles scribble furiously about fake news, while having as two columnists - the Caterist and the parrot - who knowingly perpetrated a conspiracy, by relying on the words of others, but without any technical or scientific evidence that might be led in court to defend their opinions …

And yet they still scribble away …

Would it be cheeky of the pond to suggest that the reptiles cleanse their own stables before they start getting too righteous and parroting a Donald slogan, a man much given to lying on a daily basis …

Sadly, in typical reptile fashion, it was too long and picked too many obvious and easy targets, and so the pond perforce must move on to yet another tedious treatise on the crisis in Western Civilisation …

Oh sheesh, not again …we've heard it all before … who could they possibly have drummed up this time?

Say what? They've dragged the moth-eaten chill Blainers out of the cupboard to put a freeze on the discussion?

The pond didn't know what to do. How to enliven the text? How to pretend to be listening while perhaps wandering down memory lane?

 Perhaps the pond should first wonder how long this has gone on, and how much longer it will go on...

Well Guy Rundle can testify to the length of unfolding time. 

Here he was in Crikey back on 5th June 2018, long before the world turned and we began to look forward to longer days and more sunlight ...

And so on. Unfortunately that link in blue to Western stupidity requires paywall access, but not to mind, the pond thought it sufficient entertainment to trot out the aged, creaking bones thoughts of Blainers, but had the whiz idea of also revisiting the past …

First a gobbet to get things going …

Now there's nothing new to see here, which is why the pond decided it would take a trip back into the past. 

Firstly Michael Gordon did a summary of proceedings in The Age on 18th November 2000. Unfortunately a lot of it suffers from an excess of printer's ink, but this will get things going, with Blainers taking credit for doing diligent spadework for Pauline Hanson ...

Ah what fun it was, the glory days for Blainers, but now we should return to the present, and get more of the same old, same old, old same …

Uh huh, now back into the time machine, with Phillip Adams berating academics, reported in The Age on 16h November 1984 …

But some academics did take a view, as noted in The Age on May 19th 1984, with the letter on the letters page …

Ah glory days, though at the time Blainers was a bit of a precious snowflake, feeling free to peddle his own views, but a tad agitated when others took a view on his.

It seems some academic freedom was more free than other academic freedom ...

Back in the day, it didn't take long for the rather soiled Peacock to try to jump on the bandwagon. Oh he smiled and he smarmed, but this was a peacock always ready to soil his feathers …

And there was Blainers telling The Age it might be better to give refugees a thousand bucks to piss off elsewhere … a veritable Donald of wisdom long before the Donald strode towards Bethlehem … as noted in The Age on 19th March 1984 ...

Yes, in the land of the tolerant, it seems tolerance can produce awesome intolerance and Blainers diligently explained how intolerant he was about this nonsensical tolerance ...

Cue the peacock, and agitated commentators. as in the Sydney Morning Herald on 10th May 1984...

Well it's probably wise to finish off the current Blainers effort with a final gobbet …

Again there's nothing to see here, and the pond would usually end with a cartoon, and luckily back in the day Tandberg, now gone but not forgotten, cracked a joke …

That was attached to a story in The Age on 20th March 1984 …

But bugger it, it's time to break ranks with ending a piece with a cartoon … you see, the pond found a squillion other pieces while digging into the Blainers past, and attaches a few of them for anyone that might be interested.

They're large, they might need to click on to read, and even then they might not be readable, but what the heck, it's always good to remember the man who paved the way for Pauline Hanson …

The pond humbly offers these gobbets as documentation for the Ramsay Centre's its syllabus on the crisis in Western Civilisation - you know, the unit dedicated to the study of ongoing racism in the West, since the time of Cecil Rhodes up to the time of Blainers and the Onion Muncher … (caution, students, avoid using nicknames in your essays).

Here's Blainers is on the front page of The Sydney Morning Herald on 10th May 1984 ...

And then it continued on page 2 with much more fuss …

And here's another gobbet from The Age, 13th July 1984 …

And then there was this in The Sydney Morning Herald on 30th March 1985…

And this on 20th March 1984 in The Age …

Ah the glory days …of course there was much more - students can resort to The Canberra Times at Trove here, still useful for study despite the onion muncher's attempt to degut it, and there was a price to pay … because supposedly tolerant types found that they were intolerant of intolerance … and so it goes … though the pond mainly wanted to end with this to see Moir's caricature …in the Sydney Morning Herald, 25th August 1987 ...