Commentary
On May 2, The Epoch Times published an opinion piece entitled “Yes Is for Bringing Australia Together and Moving Forward.”
The article argues that opponents of The Voice claim that the proposed entrenchment of The Voice in the Constitution repudiates “a central tenet of liberalism—the idea that we should be treated equally.”
The article’s author argues that this claim by the NO camp presents “an ideological and unrealistic conception of liberal democracy.”
The “central tenet of liberalism” that they refer to is presumably the principle of “political equality” or “equal citizenship.”
This is the principle that burdens and benefits should not be distributed on the basis of involuntary characteristics over which people have no control, such as race, as this leads to group-rights thinking instead of liberalism’s focus on the individual….