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Fairfax femmo-in-chief wants to be in Play School

Play School material? Fairfax writer Clementine Ford. Photo: Mathew Farrell
Play School material? Fairfax writer Clementine Ford. Photo: Mathew Farrell

There’s a leftie in there. Fairfax Media columnist Clementine Ford on Twitter, yesterday:

I would *love* to guest present on @abckids #playschool. Just putting my dreams out into the world. #twittervisionboard

And a swear jar as well. Ford on Twitter, November 29:

The @Samsung #galaxybook12 has reminded me why I f..king hate Microsoft Windows.

There are weddings with gays (only). Ford on Twitter, Monday:

I’m thinking about becoming a celebrant. Except I’ll only marry gay couples and exercise conscientious objection to marrying straight people because of my own moral and religious code.

And Liberals to hate. The Fairfax writer on Twitter, Monday:

(Gay Liberal MP) Tim Wilson being able to marry his boyfriend isn’t a heartwarming tale of perseverance. He will go right back to f..king over the poor and needy as part of the LNP. This just removed the only glimpse he had of discrimination.

Come inside, put your manners aside. Ford’s self-published response to The Australian’srequest for comment on Twitter, November 27:

Here’s your response … The Australian is a bad newspaper …

It’s Ford School. 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.

And what’s behind the Green-coloured window this week, children? Richard Di Natale’s statement on Jewish news website J-Wire, Tuesday:

In light of the recent report by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, which found a 9.5 per cent increase in total anti-Semitic incidents in Australia, I have a clear message: The Greens will not stand for discrimination or hatred.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry director Peter Wertheim responds on J-Wire, Tuesday:

I am sure you would unhesitatingly condemn as racist any assertion that the Palestinians are not an authentic people and are not entitled to the right of national self-determination. But when people on the far left, including some in your own party, make identical assertions about Jews, a kind of moral paralysis sets in.

The Australian Greens leader really has no shame. The Daily Telegraph, April 5:

NSW Young Greens is boycotting the country’s largest Jewish student organisation. In a move which the federal Greens failed to condemn, the NSW Young Greens told the Australasian Union of Jewish Students that it would have nothing to do with the student group’s Jewish events.

Di Natale needs a little lesson about anti-Semitism in today’s Australia. The Greens leader on J-Wire, continued:

The language we use matters.

Wertheim on J-Wire, continued:

No matter what criticisms you might have of the policies and actions of any Israeli government, and no matter how well-founded or ill-founded those criticisms may be, there can be no justification for denying our identity as a people, or our right of national self-determination … When you and the Greens finally confront this form of anti-Semitism, in addition to the older more familiar forms, you will earn our respect.

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