Comments by "Sam Black" (@samblack5313) on "All-female cast of winners take out Australia Day awards" video.

If we’re handing out awards for being abused as a child, half of my generation would be AOTY. This is pathetic.
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@Steelahh Is it? This award goes to people like Fred Hollows based on a lifetime of selfless work. If in 20 years she has pushed forward, make a foundation, done endless charity, raised true awareness, helped countless people directly... then she would probably be a fantastic candidate. Now? No. This year the award should have gone to someone (male or female, since you have assumed I’m sexist) from the CFS/MFS, who not only sacrificed during the fires, but has given their life’s work to that cause. Would probably be fitting given we suffered the worst natural disaster in recorded history last year, don’t you think? Before you say I don’t know shit about her cause, I am a child of abuse, frequent, heavy abuse, not just sexual. Far more savage, frequent, and for a much larger period of time, during a time where it was weak for males to cry or express their feelings in any way. Where you were labelled as gay for such things, even being the victim of this as a pre teen. Not everyone is a whining asshole out to hate the opposing opinion to theirs, however, I do see this shit as virtue signalling, and to me that is pathetic.
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@jman4652 Being abused isn’t achieving anything. ‘Surviving’ it is human, defeating it mentally and moving on is personal growth and it’s certainly not easy. If you succeed on that path, you are a strong person mentally. HOWEVER That is a personal battle. IF you win that battle AND THEN go on to do great things, may it be noted that is PART of your story that you overcame to achieve greatness. We used to give this award to people like Fred Hollows. Australians who did truly phenomenal things that bettered humanity.
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That is the worst way to go about it. The awards should have nothing to do with your paint job. If the 4 best candidates are female, then have at it.. But that isn’t the case, and that is the issue.
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Cunning Linguist Read above post. Generally victims of this sort of thing aren’t ‘dropping the soap’, champ, they’re children who know nothing about what is happening.. but way to joke about child abuse, I guess it’s similar to prison rape, right?
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@davidenwah3413 So the answer is to now make it all female? 😂 If we were making true progression, wouldn’t we give it to people who had done phenomenal things across many years, selflessly, because that is who they are? Or do we now need to hand it out purely to females to ‘balance’ it out? All the things that happened last year, and our Australian of the year is a child who has done what? If she had gone through this and gone on to found and run a nationally known charity surrounding it, championed the cause her entire life, made REAL change over her life’s body of work..... selflessly helping others because of her drive and belief in her cause.... NOW she’s a candidate for Australian of the year.
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@davidenwah3413 I’m not sure you’re using ‘dissonance’ correctly, champ. Can I ask what you believe it means, and how you believe it applies here? Look forward to your reply, cheers.
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@davidenwah3413 Is she the same credential wise? Here’s the list.... doctors, scientists, charitable people, people being celebrated for a lifetime of work within a field, emergency services workers disregarding their safety to save lives in acts of heroism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_of_the_Year_Award_recipients
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@davidenwah3413 So was it dissonance or cognitive dissonance? You initially said dissonance, now cognitive dissonance. Which one are you going with? Let me know when you’ve sorted that out and I’ll address you deciding my opinion for me then building a narrative around it.
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charalambos psomiadis Do you truly believe these 4 were the 4 Australians most worthy of recognition for helping Australia? Seriously?
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@SB-wq1ib We used to give this award to people like Fred Hollows... that’s why.
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charalambos psomiadis Do you hate male babies as well?
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@Imnotallergictopeanuts Ahh yep, cool cool.. so ‘progression’ is making it all women? Wouldn’t progression just be best candidate, or do we need to virtue signal for a while first?
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@jman4652 Indeed, if I told her of my childhood she wouldn’t believe me.
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No.
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@davidenwah3413 Bye David.. pseudo intellectual failure.
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@kangaroo432 Please read above post.
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Uhh What If you haven’t experienced it, then there’s no surprise you don’t understand why that is a completely ridiculous thing for her to say. It’s sickening to me.
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@uhhwhat1514 ‘If’ I certainly don’t want any awards for what happened to me, and she certainly doesn’t represent me in any way shape or form. She seems like someone who wants attention, listening to her speak made me sick. Made me sick to think people see this person as a representative of child abuse, made me sick to see her up there acting like she just won an Oscar. Like I said, Australian of the year goes to people like Fred Hollows based on a lifetime of selfless work. In this particular year, it should have gone to someone who gave a lifetime of work to the MFS/CFS. She got a law changed.. do you place this above someone who did 40 years of volunteer work for the CFS, and fought the worst natural disaster in recorded human history, then went on to clean it up? IF she goes on to do a lifetime of work actually helping OTHERS, then let’s talk AotY. If given only the 4 candidates on stage, she would be my last choice.
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@rapscallion9333 😂
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charalambos psomiadis Mate, the inside of your head is broken.
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@davidenwah3413 Would you like me to hold your hand while you desperately search Google for some more big words to define incorrectly?
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@davidenwah3413 It’s not semantics, champ. They both have differing meanings. So which one are you reaching for? You’ve put the spotlight on what now? You mean you decided my opinion so you could make a narrative? And now you’re handing out advice based off this narrative 😂😂😂😂 So which one was it, champ. Dissonance or cognitive dissonance? Like I said, once you’ve defined your own point, ill address your other idiocy.
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@davidenwah3413 So still undecided which one you meant, champ??!? ...now you’re a mind reader as well.. brilliant! Like I said, get back to me when you can define your own opinion, we will go from there. 😘
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@davidenwah3413 Still can’t figure out the difference? Or just feeling a little silly for thinking both mean the same thing? If you’re done, just stop replying. But you can’t, your ego is bruised 😃 So you’re stuck in a spot where you can’t reply to because you’ve already made yourself look slow by using words/terms you don’t understand.... but you can’t let it go because it damages your self image high intelligence. So, instead you make up an opinion for me then argue against it 😂😂😂🥴 Since you’re done, see if you can contain your ego and leave it there. I look forward to another of your egos vague replies 😘
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@davidenwah3413 There is is 😂 hi ego 😘 It’s hilarious you came to the conclusion I’m upset a woman won it.. explain this to me, I’m interested what my opinion is in your tiny mind... see if you can add ‘dissonance’ to your response. Cognitive or otherwise.
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Mate, this is Australian of the year... they give this award to people like Fred Hollows after a lifetime of selfless work helping others. Of all the things our country went through last year, of all the people who have done a lifetime of work helping others, do you think this child, right now at this point in her life, and this point in time, has done the most for Australia? Not firefighters? Not someone who has put in 40 years of charity work into the CFS and spent weeks without sleep fighting fires to save houses, wildlife, lives? THEN went on to clean up the damage.... and be paid $0 for it? Not someone who has spent their life housing children of abuse, offering them real protection, changing their lives? Reading your paragraph, it seems you are pinning this entirely on men. Well done following the narrative. You even created your own narrative surrounding those who don’t share your opinion.. they must be broken, hateful, sexist men. Seems like a hateful narrative you’re putting out there, mate.. You picked a group of people you don’t like, painted them horribly, and then pinned an opinion on them with no proof to back it up.. seems like a fairly hateful brand of discrimination.. again, well done following the narrative. Sexual abuse is widespread, surviving it is human, defeating it is personal growth, and I commend it. Neither of these things make you Australian of the year. IF go through these things, THEN go on to put your life’s work into helping others.. you are a candidate for Australian of the year.
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