Racist Australian Senator egged by teen after saying Christchurch massacre will eventually be "accepted"

[anon73430903]

@Wanderfound

Completely predictably, the mainstream Australian commentariat is now swinging into “we should engage fascists in civil debate” mode.

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[Wanderfound]

I arrived at the Islamic school I attended early in the morning. I was in year seven. The pig’s head had been thrown through a smashed window in the front office.

Graffiti on the walls: ‘Go back home terrorists.’ It was the first Gulf War.

We told you the threat is white supremacy. You ignored us and said: ‘Prove your loyalty.’

Arab and Muslim Australians spent the 90s proving themselves not-Saddam, not-terrorist, not-barbaric, not-unAustralian, not-enemy alien, not fifth-column.

We scrubbed the name of our Islamic school off the buses. We wiped the spit off our hijabs. We Anglicised our names to get jobs. The highest court of the land declared this land was never terra nullius. The blood stains on this stolen continent could no longer be bleached. Race could not be denied.

We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: ‘Prove you’re not terrorist.’

The planes crashed into the twin towers. The bombs hit Iraq and Afghanistan. We were divided into moderates and extremists.

We were socially engineered to play the part of the integrated, always-ready to-condemn, apolitical, safe Muslim.

We were told that the price for conditional belonging was the sacrifice of Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and every other broken, exploited third-world body and soul that paid the price for the West’s wealth and ‘freedom’.

We were expected to forgive Abu Ghraib, forget Guantanamo Bay, be silent about Gaza.

We were told the borders would be patrolled by whiteness, not the indigenous owners of this land. Our mosques were vandalised, our hijabs ripped off our heads, our leaders seduced into accepting we needed to be spied on, racialised and marked as a suspect community at-risk of ‘radicalisation’ via countering violent extremism programmes.

We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: ‘Accept Australian values or go back to where you came from.’

The Arab revolutions in your colonial playground were crushed by dictators cashed up and supported by you.

The divided and conquered morphed into the grotesque. Local communities were seduced again into denying race, denying history, forgetting our troubles were playing out on stolen land.

We took responsibility for terrorism and condemned, over and over again. We disciplined and tamed the beards, the hijabs, the niqabs, the Friday prayers in schools, the sermons.

We let academics research our children to find the genetic code for ‘becoming terrorist’. We focused on ‘social cohesion’, ‘community resilience’, ‘Australian values’. We produced public speakers, athletes and diversity liaison officers. We complained about the incendiary media headlines, fascist rallies, race-baiting politicians and commentators. We cleaned up the bacon, always with the bacon.

We told you the threat is still white supremacy. You ignored us and said: ‘Prove you’re not a national security threat.’

We increased security at mosques and schools, avoided going out after terrorist attacks in the West for fear of retaliation, reported abuse, vilification, vandalism, assault, bled tears for the occupied, bombed, raped countries of our family’s homelands.

We wrote opinion pieces and books; tweeted, posted, debated, educated and explained. We didn’t have the luxury of making jokes about Trump’s tweets, or debating how to dialogue with Nazis.

We had to learn to connect the dots between settler-colonialism’s instinct for extermination, state violence against black and brown bodies in custody and at the borders, and pogroms and rallies on the beaches.

We listened to liberals in the media excuse Nazis because ‘democracy’, and reported online calls for violence to no avail. We watched western Muslims, Jews and minorities murdered in the US and Europe and warned you we were scared. We pleaded with you that the white supremacist platform was suffocating us.

You ignored us and said: ‘Free speech, we are not a racist country, don’t be divisive, Judaeo-Christian values, lose the identity politics, Islamophobia doesn’t exist, Islam is not a race, love it or leave it, ban the burqa, ban Muslim immigration, ban Muslim schools, ban halal, ban the boats, we need a final solution, let’s use anti-Muslim sentiment as an election strategy, jihadi watch in schools, refugees are dangerous.’

We told you the threat is white supremacy and you fuelled it, gained from it, enabled and permitted it.

So when white supremacists massacred 49 Muslims during Friday prayers, we Muslims were not shocked, not taken by surprise. We expected this. We knew it was coming.

Because you let it.

From We told you the threat is white supremacy. Because the Australian media were too chickenshit to print it.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

[Wanderfound]

Richard Cooke (rgcooke)

Richard Cooke (rgcooke)

[SheiffFatman]

@Wanderfound

Completely predictably, the mainstream Australian commentariat is now swinging into “we should engage fascists in civil debate” mode.

Something a bit more refreshing from the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance:

Australian Taxpayers' Alliance

[GagHalfrunt]

Perhaps they issued that statement because people might expect them to agree with Anning, since they are hostile to “special interests” and object to public spending on “diversity and inclusion”.

AusTaxpayers (AusTaxpayers)

[hnwombat]

[anon15383236]

@LDoBe

people are trying to erase the fact that religion and violence are practically synonymous.

Not in my mind. While extremists in some religions are very violent, most adherents in all the religions I can think of are not.

And it’s the adherents themselves who are violent or not, not the religions.

[Miki_Bitsko]

When ‘first past the post’ was used for the Australian senate there were the following results:
1931: The United Australia Party won 50% of the seats with 25% of the overall vote.
1934: The United Australia Party won 55% of the seats with 21% of the overall vote.
1937: The Australian Labor Party won 84% of the seats with 20% of the overall vote.
1940: The UAP/Country Party coalition 84% of the seats with 50% of the overall vote
1943: The Australian Labor Party won 100% of the seats with 55% of the overall vote.

Now you have some actual evidence for your argument against ‘proportional representation’.

[Wanderfound]

Andy Fleming (slackbastard)

[simon177]

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[anon15383236]

It’s wonderful to see so many peeps egging him on.

[NineTailFox]

1.2m people so far have signed a petition to have Anning removed from parliament. For context, Aystralia’s population is nearly 25m.

https://www.change.org/p/the-prime-minister-remove-fraser-anning-from-parliament

[tuhu]

Anthony Oliveira (meakoopa)

[Fresher_then_Fresh]

GOOD for yah!..lolol…but to TURN AROUND and FIGHT this KID like a MAN!..when you KNOW he’s a TINY KID…WOW!!..dude!..if I was your SON…and you WANTED to SLAP my BOY AROUND like THAT!..(EVEN YOU weren’t even SHOWING TALENT…slapping…lol)…oh WE FIGHTING!!!..POPS!!..

[phaictan]

Eggboy helping senator to caste off the yolk of fascism or perhaps just to separate the whites

[anon36155390]

'Egg Boy' to donate money raised for him towards victims of Christchurch attack

[thomasaquinas]

Yesss! This is awesome. Very brave young man.

[Mister44]

You know I watched the whole series that guy did, and I have to say it is well done and I think pretty accurate.

[Mister44]

@capnjimbo

This fuckwit got into the senate with 19 primary votes, replacing a different fuckwit who got in with 77 primary votes but was late found ineligible to be a senator. Generally I’m a fan of preferential voting, but when it screws up it does so big time.

This isn’t a failure of the system (well, the system which should have pre-checked a candidate’s eligibility to run). This is the failure of one person running who was ineligible, and mucking up the results. Remove that guy at the beginning, you would have had a different person run and probably voted for over the guy who got the 19 votes.

Personally I would LOVE it if the US adopted this sort of voting scheme. It would give actual 3rd party types a freaking chance, vs just being forced into one of the two parties. I can’t help but think that if this were combined with campaign finance reform, it would reduce the power of the Republicans and Democrats in the US, and give alternative, moderate voices a chance.

[anon67050589]

What kind of egg is that?