Kim Carr sees Nazis Everywhere – but Commies are his Friends
Last August, long before anyone had heard of COVID-19, Labor’s socialist dinosaur Senator Kim Carr angrily defended Chinese involvement in Australian research.
Last August, long before anyone had heard of COVID-19, Labor’s socialist dinosaur Senator Kim Carr angrily defended Chinese involvement in Australian research.
His defence followed the prescient words of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Michael Shoebridge, who noted:
“If there's reasonable grounds to believe the end user will be the Chinese military or Chinese security, the research partnership should not go ahead.”
Carr claimed Shoebridge’s view was "gross overreach".
“We depend upon international engagement to secure new discoveries of benefit to this country as well as others," Carr said. "China is our fourth largest international research partner.”
The Senator was at it again yesterday. Any questioning of China evidently distresses Carr, who spent some time in parliament denouncing reporting on security issues by the Daily Telegraph’s Sharri Markson.
“Markson announced 'explosive revelations' that research leading to the unveiling of the genetic sequencing of novel coronavirus was undertaken by the University of Sydney and the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences,” Carr raved.
That line was one of few from Carr that didn’t misrepresent Markson’s timely, legitimate and completely valid work, which Carr inaccurately described as “shaky” and a “slur”.
At one point, as he accused government MPs of “shameful attacks on science”, Carr saw fit to throw this into the mix:
“It recalls the campaigns directed against science by the far-Right politicians in Europe in the 1930s.”
In the context of his broader attack on Sharri Markson, who is Jewish, this vile comment deserves particular condemnation.
Not that Labor’s leaders have ever pulled him up before. Nazi comparisons are just about Carr’s favourite weapon.
In2017, Carr accused Liberal James Paterson of "goose-stepping". In 2018, Carr apologised after saying the same Senator would have been part of the Hitler Youth.
Carr’s fixation on events of long ago perhaps explains why he struggles to understand contemporary politics.
How could the government have won, Carr wrote after Labor’s 2019 defeat, “at a time when increasing numbers of voters feel alienated from a political and economic system they believe does not work in their interest?"
Maybe they just don’t want ol’ Nazi Talk back in power.
(This morning's Daily Telegraph editorial.)