Just a few years ago then Immigration Minister #PeterDutton was very keen to welcome white farmers from #SouthAfrica as potential #refugees to Australia, (despite the alleged threat they faced being more or less a complete beat-up).
But when #Palestinians are being slaughtered by the thousands in collective punishment for the #WarCrimes of #Hamas, Dutton instead calls for Foreign Minister #PennyWong to be sacked due to her briefly advocating (in a very minimal manner) for the restraint of violence against non-combatants in adherence with #InternationalLaw.
I know pointing out blatant hypocrisy and #racism from Dutton is hardly ground-breaking material, but it really does need to be repeated, because too many people still refuse to see it, despite months of his fear-mongering and #dogwhistling over an #Indigenous#VoiceToParliament. In the footsteps of #Trump, Dutton is continually testing the waters of increasingly hateful rhetoric as a way of ensuring media attention, and has not yet discovered a line that will cause a sufficiently large chunk of voters to desert him.
It's always interesting when someone whose politics you think you know supports something unexpected: the NRA member who opposes capital punishment, the socialist who favours free trade, the pro-life feminist. How often are beliefs only found in a set because of a historical coalition, not any deeper principle? Do you hold any beliefs at variance with your political in-group?
En visite au Proche-Orient, Macron coincé dans son soutien à Israël
Durant quelques heures dans l’État hébreu, Emmanuel Macron a fait à nouveau part de son soutien total à #Israël. Le président de la République a même proposé que la #coalition internationale contre Daech puisse lutter aussi contre le #Hamas». Au milieu de cette rhétorique, la question palestinienne, elle, semble secondaire.
A human rights group is expressing concern that its #CourtApplication to pause the City of #Edmonton’s dismantling of #homeless#encampments won’t be heard until the new year, well after #winter weather has settled in.
“We are disappointed that the injunction hearing was scheduled for mid-January and another holiday season will pass while the city continues to regularly #displace#unsheltered people,” said Sam Mason, president of #Coalition for #Justice & #HumanRights.
The coaltion of puritans rages on. We all knew Luxon had it in his wheel house but then Seymour and Winnie... well they've tossed their 'freedom' and 'libertarian' ways to the side. With an ease that suggested they never cared about freedom or the individual in the first place.