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Adding to this excellent thread & to better contextualise various White media personalities defending White supremacists: let's also talk about why White Australians fixate on overseas examples of racism but never meaningfully tackle racism here. Thread 1/https://twitter.com/alanalentin/status/1036820990662041600?s=19 …
White AUS tend to either: a) defend racism in USA & UK using Nazi language 'political correctness is ruining free speech;' 'identity politics is the Left eating itself;' or b) racism in America/ UK/ elsewhere is awful. Both ideas come from the same place: White supremacy. 2/
In the first case, Whiteness prevails. 'Free speech' = views on White race should go unexamined. Anything that questions this threatens the power of White people 'Identity politics' is a phrase that presumes White identity is not political. It is just the norm. 3/
Today we've seen White women and men in the media publicly defend the right of Nazis to be welcomed to continue selling their Nazi propaganda Know who else supported this? Ordinary White people who thought mass media should be used to beam Nazi ideology into households. 4/
Here's where White people in general fail to interrogate their false notions of race and racism, and thereby reproduce White supremacy: by thinking racism is subjective rather than structural. That 'ideas' are not harmful. Whiteness sets up Nazi 'debate' as neutral. It's not 5/
As to all the White people who are currently defending Nazis from overseas, or conversely pointing to USA/ UK as examples of 'bad' racism - these are two 'safe' ways in which White Australians excuse themselves from racial inequality in this country. 6/
So while White media position themselves as bastions of 'free speech' - look to all the public & meaningful engagement these journalists and comedians have personally done to support the writing & talks of Indigenous people & other #POC and you'll see a gaping chasm
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If you speak in support of Nazis but don't seek to understand why Indigenous & other #POC don't need to live through yet another 'debate' about our humanity - you aren't here supporting 'free speech.' You're the same as any other White supremacist endangering our existence
/fin
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