The Bondi Beach attack shows diversity is not our strength |
In the wake of a tragedy it is only fitting that public figures issue words of condolence. But there’s a vast difference between making a statement that conveys condemnation and anger, sentiments that most ordinary people have felt after the attack on Bondi Beach yesterday, and proffering bland, evasive platitudes that ignore the grave problems that face us – in this case, anti-Semitism and Islamist terror.
With every attack carried out by individuals beholden to an extreme interpretation of Islam, responses of the latter kind arrive with grim predictability. The reaction to the Sydney atrocity has proved no exception. Speaking to GB News last night, Lola McEvoy, Labour MP for Darlington since last year, said that at ‘the core of a lot of the problems that we have’ is ‘this narrative of who we’re against and how much we want to divide each other and how much we want to attack each other.’ She elaborated that ‘we have more in common than divides us’, that we need to ‘celebrate difference’.
If these words sound familiar it’s because we’ve heard this kind of tepid equivocation ever........