Swing a bag in a hip eatery in Melbourne and you’ll hit at least 10 people who think Israel is the most monstrous nation on earth. But forget everything else about Antoinette Lattouf – it’s this that was unforgivable.
The whipped-up halfwits waving Palestinian flags and screaming at Israelis whose loved ones are being held hostage by Hamas sum up the unhinged global rage against Israel.
Even before the bodies of the Jews massacred by Hamas were cold, members of the fashionable left were taking to the streets to damn Israel.
If your response to Jewphobic mass murder is to offer up ‘context’, then you are lost – truly, completely lost.
Russell Brand’s followers think he’s being stitched up by a globalist cabal. His haters presume his guilt and insist he be exiled from public life. We need to inject reason into this heated affair.
I recognise the elitist rage coming from the Yes camp on the voice. It’s the same rage that was directed at ‘ignorant’ people during Brexit.
The chattering classes damn one ‘blasphemer’ but defend another in the space of a few weeks.
People are being cancelled and sometimes sacked for challenging the new orthodoxies of wokeness. In the absence of the right to think differently, progress can stall. It’s time to push back.
Be honest: has Gadsby ever made you laugh? Her stand-up is like a bad TED talk, a homily on woke. There’s an internet discussion forum titled, ‘Why is Hannah Gadsby considered a comedian?’ Good question.
Where protest was once about everyday folk rising up against the elites, now we have the affluent agitators lecturing us about our carbon footprint and insisting we learn to live on less.
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