Oh Sonia Kruger. Pls stop. STAHHHHPPPP.
After last week’s shitstorm when the television host stated Australia should deny immigration to Muslim people, Kruger has now moved on and decided to set her conservative sights on LGBTQIA youth.
On this morning’s ‘Today’, the hosts discussed the Australian Business and Community Network Scholarship Foundation (ABCN) offering a specific scholarship to students who identify within the LGBTQIA community.
Y’know, one of those excellent and common scholarships that assists someone from a disadvantaged group receive the same education as someone from a privileged background.
The scholarship seeks to help LGBTQIA students who need mentoring, assistance with study resources and/or help with financial hardships, is valued at $7000 over 3 years.
But nope – Sonia, who appears to have succumbed to the all-too-typical yet wholly devastating disease that causes people to become more and more conservative as they get older, says that the scholarship is ‘reverse discrimination’.
She said it found it “odd” that the scholarship application, which is not at all compulsory and completely the student’s choice, asks them about their sexual preferences.
Luckily, David Campbell was once again to Sonia’s left to provide the logical counterpoint to her blinkered point of view:
“Kids sexuality nowadays is different now to even when we were in high school” he said, before pointing out that there was a huge range of open scholarships, so one specifically for LGBTQIA students is “hardly a big deal“.
“I don’t think it should have anything to do with the awarding of a scholarship. I thinks scholarships should be given on merit,” said Kruger in response.
Ah yes, the classic ‘merit’ argument. It’s one of the oldest in the book, and anyone who says Sonia’s POV is new and refreshing is as incorrect as she is misguided.
Here’s your answer, Sonia – yes, it would be absolutely lovely to live in a world where everyone was on equal footing and could then be judged on ‘merit’. It really and truly would.
But we do not live in that world. In the modern day of 2016, people from oppressed minorities that possess the merit and are equally qualified are often overlooked anyway, just because of the colour of their skin, their sexuality, or their gender.
The ‘merit’ system only works when equality exists. Seeing as we do not have true equality, we need fairness, not sameness.
SAMENESS –>
<– FAIRNESS
<– FAIRNESSSource/Photo: Today.
