Bill Shorten lumps Turnbull with KKK, trolls and hacks

Halloween is racist cultural appropriation, or an opportunity to have a bit of fun

Bill Shorten, in a scathing attack on the Prime Minister, rallied the faithful at the Queensland ALP state conference on Saturday:

(Malcolm Turnbull) is a morally weak Prime Minister. A morally bankrupt Prime Minister relying upon an insolvent senator.

Urban Dictionary defines Bill Shorten’s usage of “morally bankrupt”:

Morally bankrupt is how you define a person or a group of people that have shown a regular history of making choices that are devoid of ethics and/or morals. (Examples are) Ku Klux Klan, Black Panthers, racists, bigots, bullies, internet trolls, political hacks.

Perhaps Shorten took a tip from Richard Cohen in The Washington Post on October 10: 

Over the weekend, Donald Trump did what he always does when things go south for him. He walked away. He announced he is not the man at 70 he had been at 59 when he had boasted of sexual assault, and he pledged “to be a better man tomorrow”. With that, he effectively declared moral bankruptcy, paying about a dime on the dollar of sincerity.

How easily it can trip off the tongue; The Sydney Morning Herald’s fluff correspondent Andrew Hornery at the weekend:

I suspect I’m not alone when it comes to my literary tastes, because quite frankly I’d much rather read my well-thumbed Jackie Collins’ Lucky Santangelo collection, with her warts-and-all collection of fabulously flawed, morally bankrupt and tissue-thin characters any day.

Bleeding Heart Libertarians website tricked us with what started straight but descended into farce:

A year ago, lecturer Erika Christakis wrote an email criticising Yale’s attempt to control students’ Halloween costumes. Christakis suggested that students, as adults, are capable of policing themselves, that the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable costumes is contestable, and that Halloween is a holiday meant to allow people to indulge in certain transgressions. What’s ironic about all of this is that almost all of these Yale students, though desperate to prevent racist and insensitive cultural appropriation, would later go on to engage in insensitive, racist cultural appropriation themselves, as they have done year after year since early childhood.

BHL hoax alert begins here:

Let’s be clear: Halloween is for Irish people and for Irish people only. Or, more precisely, it’s for people who are of sufficiently robust Gaelic descent. If you are not Irish, but you celebrate Halloween, then you are engaging in racist cultural appropriation.

Melbourne-based comedian Deidre Fidge on SBS Comedy:

This dreadful act of trick-or-treating leads families to be more likely to actually know who their neighbours are, which is a horrifying thought. Some argue that knowing who lives nearby is a good thing for safety and community spirit, but I disagree. Children should fear their neighbours as it’s a healthy part of childhood being terrified of the old woman next door.

Cost of a Landon Meier Donald Trump mask ideal for Halloween:

$US4500 ($5900) each.

Why Victoria is the progress state, explained in The Guardian Australia on the weekend:

Will (the Andrews government) succeed? Perhaps to an extent, but you can’t accuse it of not trying. Is the government ahead of public opinion? ... certainly ... particularly for people living outside the inner city for whom heteronormativity is not discussed routinely around the dinner table.