#booing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #booing, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: #HateSpeech #Racism #ANZACday #Auspol
In case anyone was under any illusions about the intentions of the 'hate speech' laws passed by federal and state governments in recent months, consider the official governmental and media responses to the campaign of hateful racist booing of Aboriginal elders at ANZAC Day ceremonies around the continent today.
In Gadigal/Sydney, Naarm/Melbourne, Tarndanya/Adelaide and Boorloo/Perth, organised groups of racist hecklers jeered and booed as Aboriginal elders (many of them also ADF veterans) gave a Welcome to Country or Acknowledgement of Country. The campaign was organised by some of the same far-right white supremacists behind the recent 'March for (White) Australia' rallies.
In the flurry of media reporting and comments from politicians about how disgraceful the booing was, or saying how booing "misses the point", I have not managed to find a single article mentioning the obvious application of the new draconian hate speech laws to this very situation. Nor did I see a single call for prosecution from a politician. (Nor calls for politicians who have encouraged such hate to resign.)
The double standard has always been obvious. But at times like this, it is utterly glaring.
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JD Vance Greeted With Boos During Annual Visit to Wife’s Bedroom
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JD Vance Greeted With Boos During Annual Visit to Wife’s Bedroom
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It's just "cute" when big-ass-corp has a system for #GeoFencing that can be bypassed by their push for #AI hype...
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The fallout from #Trump's latest tariff action has spilled out onto the ice rink.
#Canadian #hockey fans were heard #booing the #US #nationalanthem as it played ahead of a game between local team, the Ottawa Senators & visiting #American team, the #MinnesotaWild, on Saturday night, just a few hours after Trump's announcement.