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Rubbishing Pauline Hanson: the campaign continues : Comments
By Binoy Kampmark, published 3/8/2016University campuses are covered in myopic campaign gatherings against 'that Hanson woman'. The time she therefore receives in terms of interest and coverage tends to be out of all proportion to her actual relevance.
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This is the real and ugly face of some representatives so-called "nationalism" and no amount of flag-waving will cover that up.
They are the ones who cover their faces at rallies, burn mosques and assault Muslim women on the streets - the ones with members with violent criminal records.
There used to be a US group back in the sixties called "The American Christian Voters and Buyers League" who were trying to stamp out Kosher food (like today's Halal argument) and were fronted by a former DJ/talk-show host Wally Butterworth. His recording are still around.
They turned out to be just a recruiting shop-front for the KKK.
Likewise, the resurgent Nationalist movements in the UK have roots in neo-Naziism.
There may be peaceful motives on the surface but are a lot of hate-groups leaping onto this bandwagon and I expect more Cronulla-type incidents in the months ahead.
Hanson offers nothing in the way of unity - just division. She wants Australia to be remade in her image as a white-skinned intolerant closed society.
Demonising Asians as incorrectly "swamping us" and labelling aborigines as children-eating cannibals (what was the point behind that?) says a lot about her, not to mention her ignorance about economics or how the judicial system works.
Her former husband spoke out about her personal hatred for aborigines before he was silenced years ago with a court order and I recall her mother speaking on TV about "the yellow peril".
To her, fear and hate equals votes equals personal relevance.