ON THE NOSE – PART 3
How did that
happen? How can they be united against the rest of the world in the quest to
impose their hypocrisy on others when they can’t even agree with one another?
Well, it all started back at the time Christ really set his religion in motion.
A lot of his disciples were desperate to be seen as the favourite, and then
claim power after the Romans stood by and let the Pharisees murder him for
preaching about actually following the intent of God’s rules instead corrupt
men using them to gain power.
Then, about
500 years ago, a German monk called Martin Luther did to the Catholic Church
pretty much the same thing as Saint Paul had done to Saint Peter, and called
them out for their hypocrisy. They made every effort to burn him at the stake
for pointing out that the Church had degenerated into the very same thing as what
the Pharisees did at the time of Christ. What happened next started the
Protestant movement and led to the Reformation. It also triggered divisions
within the Church on an epic scale.
The hypocrisy
of Catholicism led to the evolution of splinter-cults, but soon they, too, were
as rotten and corrupt as the Catholic Church had been. Problem was each new
cult interpreted the Bible to satisfy the desires of its leaders, reducing
Christianity to commodities and allowing the ‘faithful’ to shop about until
they found one they liked. And now, two-thousand years after he was nailed to a
cross for trying to make the world a better place through love, peace,
tolerance, and personal improvement…
… we have every
puritanical heretic and his rock claiming they do the work of god by
persecuting almost every minority in a manner reminiscent of how the Romans
treated the early Christians. Back then, early Christians preached at each
other not to partake in the vices the Romans did, and for that they were
branded ‘freaks’ and ‘evil’. Christians were not ‘normal’ because they were a
minority that didn’t do what the majority of the population did, which was
participate in a socially acceptable LGBT lifestyle.
Remember how
the ‘no’ faction has been screaming at us that what the LGBT community does
isn’t ‘normal’ and never has been? Turns out they didn’t bother to study Roman
history. Or Greek history before that. ‘Traditional’ marriage and family is
just a modern social-construct of a modified religious belief system passed
down for hundreds of generations. In the face of all the overwhelming evidence
discrediting all their excuses, the ‘no’ camp doubled down on dishonesty and
hypocrisy.
Not content
with projecting their own worst personality flaws onto every ‘yes’ supporter by
accusing them of being evil bigots trying to force others to live under their
rules, the loud and offensive folk embedded in the ‘no’ faction began
cherry-picking news reports of bad behaviour, focussing on what the worst
elements of the ‘yes’ campaign were doing while completely ignoring even worse
behaviour from those demanding everyone vote ‘no’.
Tony Abbott
was allegedly head-butted by a ‘yes’ supporter. It played well. The ‘no’
extremists used it to defame every other ‘yes’ voter. But it wasn’t actually
true. Astro
Labe, the idiot
who made and admitted to the attack, claimed his actions had nothing to do with
Marriage Equality but were motivated by the fact he believed Tony Abbott
deserved it for years of behaving like an arsehole. Tony admits there was no
proof it was motivated by the Marriage Equality debate. Only he and said nutter
were there.
Andrew Bolt,
however, has a very different take on the situation. He wasn’t there, and has
no proof of any of his claims, but when has that ever stopped him from twisting
reality to suit his own purpose? He used the actions of this head-nutter-butter
to brand and demonise everyone who dared to support the ‘yes’ campaign. In the
very same spray of hypocritical rhetoric linking the very worst allegations of
crimes committed by the entire ‘yes’ faction, Bolt failed to even mention the
same kind of violence and nasty behaviour committed by extremist elements of the
‘no’ faction.
That’s
right. Bolt decided to dismiss and ridicule anybody who even gave Labe’s claims
the benefit of the doubt even as he insisted Labe couldn’t be trusted because
he was a violent hypocrite. You could trust the confession, but not the claim
for the attack. Bolt, somehow, knew exactly what Labe thinking. Well, given his
own history of being a convicted racist, bigot, and blow-hard hypocrite, he
does have the credentials to know how one might think, but it’s the lack of
actual evidence to support his claim that undermines Bolt’s allegations.
Among other
things. The ranting, bullshit tirades he unleashes almost every time he opens
his mouth is the other. “But for them,” Bolt raved, reducing everyone who dared disagree with his
unhinged slander, “the real cause seems to be the freedom to bully, not the
freedom of gays to marry. Isn’t the easiest way to feel superior just to drag
someone down? And isn’t dragging them down fun? That explains something that
puzzles even some Yes campaigners I respect: why all this bullying, when it just
discredits their cause? Why are so many Yes supporters exactly the haters they
claim to hate?”
It’s hard not to
laugh at the disassociation and projection from this lunatic. His words echo
the very same ones people have been asking about the extremists on the right, like
Bolt himself, and with far more justification. Andrew Bolt of nutjobs
incorporated, Sam Duncan of The Daily Mail, Sam Newman of the… I want to say
Footy Show, but according to Newman it’s no place for commentary on Marriage
Equality so since he used it for that… and Tony Abbott the self-appointed
eternal PM, are experts in dealing with any who dare criticise their Nineteenth
Century approach to equality and justice.
It echoes the
entrenched culture of corruption in the police and public services because it
is the same entrenched culture of corruption in the general public. After all,
where do you think those police and public servants come from? If a problem,
crime, systemic failure or injustice is bought to the attention of the
authorities so that it can be reported, investigated and corrected, in
response, too often, the victim is subjected to indifference, apathy,
incompetence, negligence, idleness, ineptitude, insensitivity, mockery,
insults, unfounded and defamatory accusations, and intimidation.
The laws, policies
and procedures are used to isolate and silence the victim while concealing and
enabling predators, crime, systemic failure and injustice. The most disadvantaged
are unable to access, let alone afford, a legal outcome in a Legal System that
reduces such things to commodities. Have a look at the Marriage Equality
‘debate’ and really think about it. Why are we even having this debate when
it’s a simple matter for politicians to correct a failure to apply Article 16
of the Human Rights Charter?
Apparently, it is a
matter of interpretation of that Article and so important the public has to
have a direct say that the politicians can overrule if they want. The ‘no’
campaign uses the tired-old “slippery slope” argument: if we allow this then
suddenly all manner of immoral laws will be automatically passed to destroy
society. You want a slippery slope, consider what will happen if we decide it’s
okay to start interpreting other Human Rights Articles to circumvent their
intent and social justice. Given what the LNP does to the unemployed and
refugees, you’ll quickly realise it’s already too late.
And there’s Tony
and the other ‘no’ faction hypocrites, spewing hate, insults, mockery,
unfounded and defamatory accusations, and intimidation as they use the platforms
of public spaces and businesses to demand the ‘yes’ campaign stay out of public
spaces and businesses. Consider the irony of Sam Newman close to foaming at the
mouth as he used his position on The Footy Show to attack the AFL for declaring
support for a ‘yes’ vote, and then applauded by ‘no’ extremists for his latest hypocritical,
fascist tirade.
But wait… hasn’t
the AFL been making a concerted effort to address social issues over the last
decade or so, to help build a better community? Imagine where society would be
if the AFL had remained silent on the culture of sex and drugs in the teams,
child abuse and domestic violence, depression and suicide, brawling and
one-punch attacks, racism, and other acts that undermine inclusivity. And the
same people claiming the moral high-ground to push the ‘no’ vote on Marriage
Equality are some of the very same bullies who opposed the efforts of the AFL on
those other issues.
It wasn’t
unexpected. The AFL, just like Qantas, are private businesses. They have a
right to comment, just like Tony Abbott , Sam Newman, Bolt and other nutjobs
who insist that ‘yes’ supporters should remain silent in the same breath as
whining about ‘yes’ voters trying to shove their opinions down the throats of
the ‘no’ faction, claiming they are being “attacked” by people who publicly
support ‘yes’. It is a process that requires people to ignore logic and decades
of the ‘no’ faction doing that to the LGBT community, and the real violence,
insults, bullying, and injustice the LGBT community has suffered.
Besides, the AFL,
Qantas and other smart businesses follow the money. They do market research and
predict trends to maximise profit and make sure their business does not fail.
They cater to the majority in their target demographic which, in this case, is
the entire community. They did the math and found the majority of people are in
favour of equality, so promoted themselves as being an inclusive part of the
community that doesn’t discriminate on this issue.
Again, the ‘no’
extremists insist that’s not even their choice, and that they should not have
publicly commented on the issue because they have no right to make public
comment. The ‘no’ extremists do not have a problem with Churches publicly
declaring support for the ‘no’ campaign, or decades of promoting their views on
the LGBT community in the public arena, or of bakeries refusing to supply gay
couples with wedding cakes. Yet they did have a problem with one very clever
pizza business.
Discovering a giant
“it’s okay to say ‘no’” billboard had been erected beside their shop, they used
the white space on their own building to add “to pineapple on pizza”. Most
people saw the humour in the news report, adding satirical responses reflecting
the idiocy of the Marriage Equality debate with things like “pineapple is never
okay”. The ‘no’ extremists never even bothered to read or listen to the report
and simply launched in with accusations of “typical vandalism and bad behaviour
of the lefties!”
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