A year of inflated intolerance punctured by Milo
A round of intolerance, anyone? The Sydney Morning Herald, March 14:
A number of pubs have vowed to take Coopers beer off their taps after a political marketing stunt backfired disastrously on the South Australian brewer. Coopers teamed up with their long-time donation recipients, the Bible Society Australia, to create a video on same-sex marriage … In the video, Liberal MPs Tim Wilson and Andrew Hastie debate same-sex marriage with the men agreeing to disagree in a “civil and respectful way” … the public backlash started within minutes of the video’s release … Social media users ravaged Coopers’ Facebook page, promising to never drink the beer again.
Rebecca Urban finds more intolerance, The Australian, March 23:
Marriage equality advocate IBM has refused to publicly back a senior executive in the face of attacks over his role with a Christian organisation.
The IT group and its Sydney-based managing partner Mark Allaby have been hounded by social media activists, who have taken issue with Mr Allaby’s role on the board of the Lachlan Macquarie Institute, an internship program for young Christians. The activists, including Michael Barnett, who convenes the Jewish LGBTI support group Aleph Melbourne, and Rod Swift, a Greens candidate in the 2014 Victorian state election, have accused the company of hypocrisy for allowing a high-profile employee to be involved with “an anti-LGBTI organisation”.
Clementine Ford advances the cause of gender intolerance, news.com.au, August 31:
Some schoolgirls staged a walkout on feminist Clementine Ford after she refused to take questions from male students at exclusive Aquinas College in Melbourne … One angry parent claimed Ford had treated the 15-year-old male students “like crap” … following the fallout … Ford “went nuts, she crucified the boys online”.
Conservatives are quite capable of joining in. Milo Yiannopoulos, The Australian, November 30:
Conspiracy theories are taking hold of Western civilisation. Angry, middle-aged feminists — beloved by journalists, hated by the rest of us for their hectoring tone and perhaps for the stench of cat urine and disappointment that follows them everywhere — have persuaded our credulous, virtue-signalling elites of a number of things that are simply not true.
Milo notes that liberals have been calling conservatives racist for decades to shut down debate:
They don’t call us racist any more. They call us “white supremacists” or “neo-Nazis”. Hilariously, they even do it to me, despite the fact I have a black husband and have never uttered a racist sentence in my life.
ABC news online, December 5:
Neil Erikson from far-right group Patriot Blue said he was at the protest to defend free speech. “We were basically coming to the Milo event and we were attacked so we had to defend ourselves,” he said. Chris DiPasquale from the campaign against racism said his group “want to send a positive message” … “We’re against racism, we’re against sexism, transphobia, homophobia, everything that Milo stands for we’re against that.”
In the Christmas edition of The Spectator Australia, Milo has advice for all Australians:
During my tour, the Australian far left showed us who they are, throwing rocks at police, beating up journalists and using violence as a go-to response to ideas they don’t like. I don’t hold views that aren’t shared by millions of Aussies and hundreds of millions of Americans. But you wouldn’t know that, to watch the feral soap-dodgers outside my Melbourne and Sydney shows … So that’s my message … wake up, Aussie ratbags, and start fighting fire with fire. Or you’ll wake up one day and discover the Australia you loved is gone forever.