THE WORLD’S ONLY WHITESPLAINING GORILLA
Having previously called a black man a gorilla, the SMH’s Peter FitzSimons lately whitesplained racism to Tongan-descended Israel Folau.
Having previously called a black man a gorilla, the SMH’s Peter FitzSimons lately whitesplained racism to Tongan-descended Israel Folau.
Peter’s racism lecture followed Folau’s gentle indication of his same-sex marriage opinion:
I love and respect all people for who they are and their opinions. but personally, I will not support gay marriage.✌â¤ðŸ™
— Israel Folau (@IzzyFolau) September 13, 2017
FitzSimon then donned his magical bandana of justice and attempted to set Folau straight
Look, you believe all that religious stuff, which is your perfect right. And you can live by that. But is it not a tad presumptuous as to try and push that on the rest of us?
Folau didn’t push anything. He merely wrote a Twitter post. FitzSimons, by comparison, is a full-time opinion writer with a newspaper that might have thousands more readers if he didn’t write for it.
And here's something else, Israel. As Mia Freedman has pointed out, back in 1962, when a white man in Virginia, Richard Loving, married a black woman, Mildred Jeter, the police raided their home, arrested them, and threw them into jail. The judge annulled their vows, ruling, "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red and He placed them on separate continents. The fact that He separated the races shows that He did not intend for the races to mix."
Get it? This was your God, being cited as the reason for appalling discrimination, and the ruling was overturned by the US Supreme Court in 1967.
He actually asks Israel Folau: “Get it?” As though the man needs further explanation, presumably because he doesn’t have Peter’s enormous bandana-enhanced brain – which somehow blames Folau’s God for discrimination in Virginia 50 years ago. Richard Freedman had further fun with whitesplainer FitzSimons last Sunday:
.@Peter_Fitz and @R1CHARDFREEDMAN got right into the SS-Marriage debate around sport. pic.twitter.com/p3mQWrRgxs
— Sports Sunday (@SportsSunday) September 17, 2017
(Via John P.)
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