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Jo Bartosch has new (to me at least) information about the presence of Nazis at last Saturday’s Let Women Speak.
Politicians from across the spectrum have rushed to tar Keen, a women’s rights activist, as a ‘Nazi’. This is because a group of extreme right-wing thugs from the National Socialist Network were spotted near one of Keen’s rallies in Melbourne, Victoria last weekend. The black-clad men, who had no identifying insignia, were led by police to the steps of Melbourne’s Parliament House, where they proceeded to give a Nazi salute. These fascists had nothing to do with Keen’s rally. As Victoria Police have since made clear, the neo-Nazis were one of six groups to be holding protests at the same time as Keen’s. ‘Officers were required to form many lines between the different groups to protect the safety of all involved, stop breaches of the peace and prevent any physical violence’, a police statement said.
Ah, it was a sort of farmer’s market of groups. That clarifies things.
One of those attending Keen’s rally was newly elected Liberal MP Moira Deeming. Incredibly, she is now facing a vote on whether she should be expelled from the Liberal Party for the crime of ‘organising, promoting and attending’ the rally in Melbourne. In a statement, Deeming, who is herself Māori, explained that Keen’s rally was attended by women of all political affiliations, backgrounds and faiths. She added that those in attendance were unaware the group of men were fascists until they raised ‘their hands in a Hitler salute’. Deeming explained that she, ‘along with the few others who were facing them from the front, were horrified’. She said that her fellow protesters then called on the police to have the neo-Nazis removed, but their calls went unheeded.
Yeah yeah yeah never mind all that, she still has to be expelled so that the people expelling her can get a little glow of righteousitude.
It seems other politicians also wanted to join in the Keen-bashing. On Thursday, Tasmanian Green Party senator Nick McKim referred to Keen ‘and her ilk’ as ‘trans-exclusionary right-wing dropkicks’. The phrase ‘dropkick and punt’ is Aussie rhyming slang for women’s genitalia.
Oh, dropkick and punt. The one I saw the other day was just dropkick. No wonder it made no sense.
Perhaps the most bizarre attempt to smear Keen came from New Zealand television station Discovery. On Wednesday, producers honed-in on a still from a video of Keen where she momentarily joined her forefinger and thumb in what Discovery described as a ‘hand signal linked to white supremacists’. To prevent offence, or arguably scrutiny, her ‘gesture’ was blurred out. To a sane eye, she was clearly idly gesticulating.
It wasn’t even momentarily, it was for a split second, as part of general random gesticulating while talking. People have lost their damn minds.
This McKim is a real Nora and Nick.
Is the Green Party the official party of misogyny now?
A lot of the people who went to protest KJK’s rally claim to be opposed to fascism and Nazis. In fact, they’re very proud of it. Did they do anything to the actual Nazi-saluting fascists who showed up? Did they even threaten to do anything? YOU HAD ONE JOB, ANTIFA. ONE JOB
I’ve never heard of Aussie rhyming slang, certainly never heard the phrase dropkick and punt as slang for c*nt, and not only is NZ culturally very close to Aus, but I’ve got family, friends and work in Australia.
It’s terribly sad and disheartening that Australia is just as much a shit show as New Zealand on this issue.
Piglet, antifa has proven that it’s even more into misogyny than being anti-nazi.
Piglet, perhaps instead of antifa – which you correctly point out they’re not – we should refer to them now as altfa.
I’m a great user of Aussie ryming slang, derived from Cockney. The trick is to form a rhyme, then drop part of the rhyme so iniates fol.ow and outsiders kept outside.
For example, we often call Americans Seppos.
Septic tank rhymes with Yank, drop the tank and Americans are Septics. Add the Aussie love of shortening everything and we end up with Seppo.
Like “china” in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy – china plate: mate. China=friend, mate.
Wikipedia has more of them.
Loaf, as in use your loaf [loaf of bread]
Porkies, meaning “lies”; pork pies.
The movie The Limey was my main intro to Cockney rhyming slang. The main character is constantly having to explain himself to folks with no clue what he’s talking about, such as “butcher’s” (as in butcher’s hook) for “look”.
Borstal Boy was mine. Read it age 16 or so, so that was useful.
It infuriates me when people insist “it’s right there in the name”, as if people’s actions are governed by etymology. That’s as true for “pro-life” and other euphemistic stances as it is for antifa. Saying you must be pro-life if you oppose the death penalty is as incorrect as saying you must be antifa if you oppose fascism.
Ah well, far be it from me to tell an Aussie how to Aussie. Never heard it in the wild all the times I’ve been there or met Aussies anywhere though.
Same with me and British rhyming slang – I know of it but I don’t know it in person.