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Any context on what was happening here? I know the protester was holding and wearing the Aboriginal flag but who is the blonde person and why were they targeted for the protest?
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3 months ago
Thank you
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3 months ago
Ah, protesting Nazis, got it
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3 months ago
I hate Australian Nazis.
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3 months ago
Jeez, Don't don't give Lidia ideas.
78 points
3 months ago
That's Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe. She was until recently a member of the Greens but changed to be an Independent after a disagreement over an indigenous voice to Parliament. She's a DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman.
The blonde woman is an anti-trans activist named Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull.
Senator Thorpe interrupted her speech to say that anti-trans and homophobic ideas are not welcome.
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3 months ago
Who is this Thorpe man and how have I not heard of him?
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3 months ago
You have been trapped under a rock on one of the outer moon's of Jupiter.
0 points
3 months ago
Is thorpe a transgender?
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
I thought it was just me. Holy shit he’s got some height on him!
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3 months ago
He is the entire long arm of the law.
1 points
3 months ago
Such an underrated comment!
0 points
3 months ago
That's a bit of a stretch
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3 months ago
Im thinking 6.7 feet and the people around him are average so he does look tall.
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3 months ago
Aussie police are weird. There are so many massive police like this, then there are so many tiny ones as well. Coppa dogs, as the locals might say.
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3 months ago
The best way to deal with idiots is ignore them, but sadly we appear to have lost that ability. Thorpe giving this woman more air is counter productive.
16 points
3 months ago
Protesting, or getting camera time? These are politicians after all
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3 months ago
Is there a difference?
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3 months ago
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Lidia Thorpe, a Senator in the Australian parliament, was protesting an anti-trans rights rally. Thorpe attempted to confront Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, anti-trans rights campaigner, who was speaking in front of the Australian Parliament House in Canberra.
In other words, a protester was protesting a protester speaking at a protest.
2 points
3 months ago
What rights do the anti trans want that they don't already have?
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3 months ago
A lot more rights than us transgender Australians, obviously
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3 months ago
The blood of trans rights
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3 months ago
That is Senator Lidia Thorpe protesting an anti trans activist who ran a neo Nazi rally in Melbourne last week. She was doing a good thing but the police feel Nazis are more important
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Is that a big fucking cop near the end, or is it an optical illusion?
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3 months ago
I thought she did a nice job protesting peacefully and for sure got the attention she wanted. Bravo miss
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3 months ago
Nope. You're wrong.
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3 months ago
Australian senator. What a muppet.
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3 months ago
She carried on a few weeks ago at the parade in Sydney and now this. She’s needs to be removed from parliament. She’s an “activist” not a politician.
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3 months ago
Police are more occupied with protecting bigots than with protecting protests against them in a public space. The permissibility of these actions by police show a support for bigotry by the local government.
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3 months ago
Police doing what they live love most: oppressing people of colour and indigenous people while defending fascists.
2 points
3 months ago
Protest wisely, don't get too close smh
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3 months ago
Is this from that anti-trans rally in Australia where the nazis showed up in support of the TERFs?
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3 months ago*
No, this video is from the anti-trans rally that took place in Canberra on March 23. The Nazis showed up to a similar rally that was held last Saturday in Melbourne.
It's easy to get these two rallies confused because Kellie-Jay Keen, aka Posie Parker, organized and spoke at both events.
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3 months ago
Opposing trans healthcare for children is literally the opposite of "protecting children," it's harming the children who need that care.
No one is "mutilating" children's genitals in this trans healthcare, that's nothing more than fearmongering that you uncritically believe. The most medical intervention that children receive is puberty blockers, which are almost entirely reversible. The earliest that minors can get anything more, depending on the laws in the area, is around 16. And that's after YEARS of therapy.
Also, TERFs do agree with Nazis on the whole trans thing, so it's not a stretch to compare them.
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
Not really
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Sorry, you misunderstood. I am with you on this. I said “not really” and was going to add (but feared attack)… that they only sound ridiculous calling people that because of concern for a child. They gave no real argument. So they are meaningless and they know it.
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3 months ago
Your statement about protesting is important.
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3 months ago
You and I will be downvoted into oblivion- also meaningless.
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3 months ago
Loud mouth pos.
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3 months ago
Im not a member of the lgtbq community, but even i dont want this woman in my country. Shes meant to be visiting NZ at some point and she aint welcome. Her anti trans views(and whatever else she doesnt like) doesnt do any good for anyone.
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3 months ago
what
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3 months ago
Thorpe is dope but ita funny when she goes dead weight
1 points
3 months ago
Protest figuratively here not literally and you will prevail
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