Courage versus Cowardice: What is the Real Lesson Here?

Who is the winner and loser of this piece? I never read the Guardian. Who does? A lovely DB team member brought this horror of a shocker piece to my attention. A nasty miserable, mean woman tries to run down the super hero Novak. It is not only off the pulse, it is a major argument for incitement, hostility and aggression. It is defamatory. It is threatening, and frankly bonkers.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/06/novak-djokovic-patience-vaccine-sceptics-unjabbed?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-3

4 comments

4 Comments

zarelaluzinsky

Jan 09, 2022

Hello DB, sorry about getting all technical yesterday. I wouldn't know how to call it myself. Perhaps yesterday was a reflection of my own frustration only.

I will stay away from my phone when felling trapped. I am feeling like a jerk right now.

Thank you for everything you are doing, I think you are a decent human being.

I don't buy you coffee because since all began almost two years now I have been living on my life savings. One half is to try to do something to stay free and the other half to hang on to my human rights and dignity or whatever is left of it. I promise you I will back pay you the coffees I have been enjoying one day, it's on my list.

I really enjoy your creative writing, I found it very mind opening. I consider myself less than one quarter educated person but I enjoy killing my ignorance whenever possible.( I did go to university here, well design school, but as you can tell by my writing education needs to improve). Your parallel is already offering me that through your writing.

Come what may comrade of democracy!!🤫😂 Can it get more tragic then that.

Sorry, thank you and take care.

From now on I will be signing Depeche mode, enjoy the silence to myself when reading or listening to you!!

Unknown member

Jan 09, 2022

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@zarelaluzinsky of course not! I absolutely loved your comment. So please don’t think that way - it’s great that you like my creative writing - because I love writing it.

Life is tough for many. If I can lift the mood and day a little, it gives me such satisfaction.

Stay lovely - and most definitely write anything you’d like. Self censorship is the worst kind :-)

ps Love Depeche Mode.

zarelaluzinsky

Jan 08, 2022

Hello DB

I gave you a ❤️ for supporting the joker. I fell to understand the link to communism, I didn't know who Gaby Hinsliff was before your video.

I had a look and now I am very confused!!

All this bad things are happening all around the world.

Australia (the country I was born , but not grow up in) is a liberal democracy under a liberal government, and yet is doing all this bag things.

(I am not a communist, half my family suffered because of it). Now when I look at my watch and it says 9:00, I can't longer tell if it is am or pm. Not a criticism to you at all I just fear that perhaps we are in denial, because it's painful, very painful. Why all the sacrifice? This is how I feel.

Unknown member

Jan 09, 2022

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Thanks Zara. There is so much funny business going on, it may not be funny. I worry so much about Australia. We are going the wrong way, and need to turn around quickly. I guess instead of communism I could say 'a centrally planned government economy'. Just look around, the government is controlling everything. Who can shop at your store, who you can hire, what your health choices are, where you can move and where you cannot. That's not to mention the constant, 24/7 advertising about themselves and how they are doing this or that. In Melbourne, there is an illusion of freedom. Critics will say you can say what you want. But that's my point. You can't. You can only say what the government wants you to say. Otherwise, you are censored, denied access to treatment, and in the worst instances fined or jailed. If you are only free to say what the government wants you to say, that's not freedom. Personally, I'll keep writing my way. I'm very worried that if we don't, then they will think we all agree with them. I need to disagree with what is wrong.