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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel the the author is not completely wrong

  They are though. It’s a sky news article, downplaying racism at a Nazi rally. There’s no two sides to this…

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• Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Many of the people in attendance probably didn’t feel they had a better recourse for expressing their views publicly: this was their most viable opportunity to be seen on the streets, and they did so with an understanding that there were bound to be some views expressed that they don’t fully condone, and that, for all its flaws, and occasional friendless mean-spirited souls who had brought offensive placards, they were there on balance, partner at their side, even pushing a pram, to make their voice heard about an issue that matters to them.

  There is no “on balance” with racism. If you know the protest is being organised by racists, will be attended by racists and will have racist speakers, you don’t get to turn up and say “but I’m not a racist I’m here for some other reason”. And you can’t tell me these people went in completely blind, the problems with this protest were all over mainstream and social media beforehand. What kind of person sees/hears about racist red flags and decides to attend anyway? We have a word for them.

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  • Tenderizer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If someone’s views are hostile to a minority, even if they’re not hatred-driven, they should NOT express them publicly. There are plenty of private channels to reach out to politicians that won’t intimidate a vulnerable group. The mere act of expressing these anti-immigration views publicly is itself unacceptable.

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    • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, I strongly agree. It has an “othering” effect which is often the gateway to hatred.

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• hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re falling for it. Of course reasonable immigration is reasonable. The issue is they are twisting the narrative. Immigrants are not to blame for the things they are protesting about, such as housing costs and cost of living. Immigration certainly doesn’t help those things, but it provides many other benefits, which are generally greater than any negatives.

  The reason they are being called racist is because these rallies were started by neo Nazis. Have a look at their website. The flyers they have for printing to hand out in your neighborhood call out specifically Indian immigration.how is Indian immigration somehow worse? Before that it was Chinese. Before that it was Muslim. Before that it was Vietnamese.

  They don’t have any solution for the problems they raise. Cut off immigration and our economy is in the toilet. Housing market collapses? Nobody can get a loan for this cheaper housing and nobody can afford other things either.

  Yes, they blame the current government as well as immigrants. ~~~~They fail to blame the precious government whose policies were largely more to blame. They fail to acknowledge that the greens policies have mostly been about addressing their concerns without vilifying immigrants for many years.

  Remember, they are using dog whistle language too. March for Australia for them means March for white Australia. It doesn’t mean that for all those that turned up. It means that for the organisers.

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They deserve to be caricatured as misinformed divisive bigots who should read something other than News Corp.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not completely wrong, no, but it’s extremely disingenuous to pull this shit in direct reference to a rally organised by fucking nazis

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