Rita Panahi: AFL displayed appalling judgment by giving into divisive Leftist voices

AFLW players should be embarrassed they couldn’t bring themselves to honour one of the most significant women in history.

The pitiful decision by the AFL to ditch a tribute to the Queen during the AFLW Indigenous round gives an insight into what we can expect if we continue to pander to the race-baiters and the identity politics-obsessed activist class.

It’s a road to division, collective guilt and the most noxious form of political correctness.

AFLW players should be embarrassed they couldn’t bring themselves to honour one of the most significant women in history.

As many have noted it appears the W in AFLW stands for “woke”, not “women”.

If it wasn’t for the “western imperialism” that they decry so incoherently, there wouldn’t be an AFLW or the many platforms where the perpetually aggrieved can play victim.

The AFLW snubbed a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Aboriginal leader Warren Mundine was disgusted by the AFL’s actions. “I’m a little tired of white people and woke organisations speaking for Aboriginal people and assuming to know what Aboriginal people think and feel,” he wrote.

Author and political science professor Wilfred Reilly describes wokism as the idiotic belief that “(1) all of society is currently and intentionally structured to oppress, (2) all gaps in performance between large groups illustrate this, and (3) the solution is ‘equity’ - proportional representation without regard to performance.” A more succinct definition is one I saw on a T-shirt: “Woke: A state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything but their own behaviour”.

Queen Elizabeth II’s death has triggered a competition between the opportunists, victimhood appropriaters and other assorted attention seekers determined to make this moment in history about them.

In their eagerness to play victim they demonise the Queen, the Monarchy, the British Empire and Western civilisation but they also have revealed how historically illiterate they are on all these issues.

It’s a sad state of affairs when the dude from MAFS has a better grasp of reality than Greens MPs and many academics.

Dean Wells posted: “To all the people whinging about “colonialism” from their iPhones, powered by electricity, using a written language, from inside a building that has constant running water, plumbing, aircon and all other modern conveniences that western civilisation has provided for us all to live the most comfortable, prosperous, safe, privileged lives of any humans in all of history … Please kindly STFU or go back to living in the bush”.

The AFL displayed appalling judgment by giving into the most radical, divisive Leftist voices.