Over the years, I number of things have confused me.
For example, I remember writing to a columnist in response to her rather strange attitudes in the strange time after the 2001 World Trades Centre attacks and the aftermath. I remember making some comparison to her remedies for all the troubles of the Western world being similar to the German response to the burning down of the Reichstag by the Jewish bankers and the socialists.
She wrote back and suggested that I was anti-Semitic for making such an accusation…
Just in case, you don’t know your 20th Century history, I should probably point out that I was being ironic, because, even though the idea that the Jewish bankers would be plotting with the socialists is more far-fetched than the idea of a plot between Advance and Extinction Rebellion, Hitler managed to convince people that it was what happened and used the fire as an excuse to push for greater powers.
This was exactly what was happening in most Western democracies at the time, with any objections being brushed off with: “Yeah, yeah, that may be what the legislations says, but trust us, we’ll only be using it on the terrorists… or suspected terrorists!”
My point then was simply that, even if I trusted the John Howards and the George Ws, how could I trust what future governments might do with the same powers.
She was holding up a blank sign, your honour, and we all know why: it’s because her comrades were arrested last week for holding up a sign supporting those terrorists who tried to stop a bulldozer from knocking down a building!
Anyway, the columnist missed the point that I was making which was the very opposite of anti-Semitism, given I was pointing out how ridiculous it was that power could be grabbed by something so false and used to do so much evil to so many, including the Holocaust… I still don’t know if the columnist just attacked me because she didn’t know the history of Nazi Germany or because she really thought that I believed the well-debunked theory about the plot by Jewish bankers and socialists.
These days I’m more confused than ever.
For example, we have had many people pointing out that it’s rather strange that some of the loudest voices, asking why more hadn’t been done to stop anti-Semitic hate speech where the same ones who told us that people had a right to be bigots and all this legislation to stop hate speech was hampering freedom of speech. Note, I said, some, not all…
And, after several attempts by a recent government to ensure that religious freedom was protected, now that they’re in Opposition certain members of that government are suggesting that quoting religious texts shouldn’t be an exemption from any legislation that prohibits hate speech.
Sussan Ley was demanding that Parliament be urgently reconvened before Christmas to pass laws dealign with anti-Semitism because it couldn’t wait; now, legislation is being “rushed” and they need more time.
Then we had the apology about the Cathy Wilcox cartoon. The media outlet apologised because it was “divisive”… I’m confused because the same paper has never apologised about publishing opinion pieces by all sorts of people where they actually argue a point of view that some might call… well, divisive. Henceforth, I presume, that only opinions where we all agree will be published. (Can I say that? Or is that divisive and needing an apology?)
This is all before I heard the recent story about how much it costs to educate a kid these days. About $114,000 in a government school, according to the report… Hm, that seemed high to me, so I decided to look at the breakdown. It did include things such as fares, sporting equipment, music lessons and outside tuition, as well as the more obvious things like books, computers, school fees and uniforms. Before I point out that not every child has outside tutoring or music lessons and that some parents like me make their child walk the four hundred metres to school, I’d just like to point out that the figures were put together by Futurity Investment Group which helps you finance your child’s education by investing in “unique, tax-advantaged Education Bonds”, which I guess might help you understand why they’re so concerned about the costs and so determined to publish how expensive it is so that you can take advantage of their services. So I found it very confusing that there was no mention of how one could take advantage of their wonderful service in the story about how much an education will cost…
But the most confusing thing of all is the text I just got about suspicious charge 0f $16,999 that just got flagged on my Latitude card. This is indeed a great concern and highly suspicious!
I don’t have a Latitude card.
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Our Sussssan is an animated corpse in search of a brain…preferably one with a functioning memory and a sense of hypocrisy.Yeah, I know, I’m dreaming.
… walk the four hundred metres to school …
Well, o’ course, we ‘ad it tough …
@ leefe: Youse fellas were lucky ….. I had to hike about a kilometre around the very long corner to get to primary school. Later I had to ride a push bike through the teeming Sydney Eastern Suburbs traffic to get to high school. Geez, I was physically fit then ….
I completely understand your confusion Rossleigh ….. Naturally you will be attending the Adelaide Writers Festival to stand in the empty presentation sites, waving your blank protest sign to object to the Zionazi attacks on freedom of speech that the South Australian Premier has buckled under.
Then the Miss Leader of the Opposition is obviously a blank tabla rasa ready to promote the s18C debate again, a phoenix rising from the bushfire ashes of Victoria with the impress of religious incantation rather than modern racism platitudes??
Ah, but I’ve already started my own Brisbane Writer’s Festival and, as you notice by my excellent punctuation, the apostrophe is before the “s”, meaning that there is only one writer…
This gives me one up on the one in Adelaide but at least I know I won’t be cancelled even if people assume that it’s in Brisbane and not just me talking to an empty room in the style of Sussan Ley press conference.
Curious, people can be.
I once had a lecturer at uni I thought was beaut. After one of Israels earlier outrages she wrote ranting about anti semitism and was going to live in France away from anti semites.
I just looked away and thought how such an individual could have sunk to such nonsense.
This sums up the idiocy in local RW MSM and the Orwellian messaging of the right to claim ‘the left is anti-semitic’, risible
‘For example, we have had many people pointing out that it’s rather strange that some of the loudest voices, asking why more hadn’t been done to stop anti-Semitic hate speech where the same ones who told us that people had a right to be bigots and all this legislation to stop hate speech was hampering freedom of speech.’
Presently disgusting how those of the left, centre and right of Jewish heritage are dog whistled as anti-semitic for opposing Netanyahu’s regime, while RW MSM platforms far right &/or ignores neo-Nazis?
When one observed several years ago that high profile ‘journalist’ dog whistling Caulfield in Melbourne for high numbers of ‘foreigners’ wink wink several,years ago, is now a supporter of Judaism?
Not just the hypocrisy but how these types are never called out, as our mostly white media, politicians and people are slack ‘gold fish’; neither memory nor context, everyday just a new RW PR cycle……shout at each other like Turkey, Hungary, now the US?
Haters gotta hate, be it black people, vietnamese boat peoples or boat peoples in general…it’s thems immigrants i tells ya..those bloody international students…it’s the tranny’s…it’s the ‘thems’ that are causing all the problems. It’s the Law’n’order catastrophe..it’s thems religious types and so on 🙁 .. waves to Gina’n’Barnaby’n’Pauline.. (Advance, IPA, after dark mob, others etc) When ya don’t have any serious policies other than stated above, then you’re an unAustralian embarrassment, ay, L.N.P., Pauline etc…pfftt
Remember political correctness, and how it muffled free expression. It imposed artificial run arounds like saying a person was visually impaired rather than simply being able to state they were blind. The extra effort involved in putting the person before the disability was too much.
But maybe if we had defended this idea and not allowed and encouraged people to say what they really meant, we would not be trying to constrain hate speech now.
The following link is not about anti-semitism, it is about Australian citizens acting to remind our Government of its obligations to uphold international law and to not associate with genocidal criminals on our behalf without permission.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01/australians-for-humanity-demand-that-the-invitation-to-the-president-of-israel-to-visit-this-country-be-immediately-withdrawn/?utm_source=Pearls+%26+Irritations&utm_campaign=68c57e08ce-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0c6b037ecb-68c57e08ce-668650927
On the omnibus bill: Hate-speech / Gun Law Reform, out came the usual omnibus of shouty, vested-interest numbskulls, out of the blocks before they could put on their reading glasses (or assistants), as far as I dare see – on the ABC; Canavan, Joyce, McCormack & McKenzie (where’s Littleproud), and Ley.
Meanwhile we were entertained by SA Labor’s leader Malinauskas testing hate-speech causing the trashing, collapse and complete voiding of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival. And then going on to do strangulated weasel-worded double backflips and pikes, maybe to a watery grave. His previous ‘cool’ now turned to ice where he may well be frozen out in the upcoming March state elections.
The lawyers of the target of his ‘test’, Marque Lawyers, has issued him a concerns notice re defamation proceedings. Oooops.
Freedom of Speech. Freedom to Preach. Freedom to Beseech. Freedom to be Beseeched. Freedom to Pleach. Freedom to be leaked. Freedom to be Leeched. Freedom to be Impeached.
So many freedom tools.
Can we please stop using the term antisematism. Its just perpetuating the lie and the Zionist propaganda that bolsters it. Call it what it really is…anti-Israevil and anti-Zionism, for good reason.