RUBY SEES RED OVER WICKED WHITENESS

In reaction coverage to last week's Fairfax follies, I mentioned a claim by ex-Fairfax columnist Ruby Hamad that her work had been plagiarised by two colleagues.

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July 30, 2018 - 2:25AM

Ruby Hamad probably talking about something or other

In reaction coverage to last week's Fairfax follies, I mentioned a claim by ex-Fairfax columnist Ruby Hamad that her work had been plagiarised by two colleagues.

Hamad did not identify those colleagues or provide any evidence, so my introduction to her claim was necessarily brief:

Ex-Fairfaxer Ruby Hamad turns on her former comrades

And that was it. Yet Hamad believes those few words reveal I’ve formed some kind of white supremacist pact, presumably with her old Fairfax enemies:

Whiteness is impenetrable. It really is. A writer being plagiarised by her own colleagues in the same publication is a scandal but whiteness finds a way to keep blaming me for it.
— Ruby Hamad (@rubyhamad) July 27, 2018

This may be Ruby Hamad’s Columbo moment. You see, her initial accusatory post mentioned nothing at all about those alleged plagiarists being white. Hamad didn’t mention names, genders, ages, job titles or racial characteristics. They were simply “two of my own colleagues”.

Those colleagues could have been black, white, Asian, brown or whatever. I didn’t know, and only an idiot would assume someone’s colour based on anything besides, well, their colour.

In any case, assembling a sight-unseen white power movement would be exceptionally difficult. Mistakes could be made.

UPDATE. Further from Hamad:

Reminder: Iâ€™m an Arab-born writer who quit her writing gig in protest at being plagiarised by 2 white colleagues & subsequently â€˜blacklistedâ€™ by one of Australiaâ€™s biggest media orgs but itâ€™s okay bc the real threat to free expression is brown ppl objecting to being dehumanised.
— Ruby Hamad (@rubyhamad) July 29, 2018