Hanson spawned the silliest semantic beard-stroking in 20 years

"And if we change ourselves to suit the migrants, we're actually letting them down as well as ourselves."But it was poor Angus Taylor — current Liberal leader and, I guess, shadow leader of the opposition — who found himself in linguistic quicksand up to his fetlocks.In a transfixing press conference on Wednesday, Taylor seemed unable not only to define monoculturalism, but also to say what his views on multiculturalism were, in a drawn-out encounter so disorienting that he was eventually obliged to ask journalists to throw him a rope.Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.And yet "I want Australia to look like Australia."It didn't matter, because by Thursday Hanson was saying that what she really meant by "monoculture" was the Socceroos, and how disgusting it was that her original comments had been taken out of context