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Andrew Bolt is a racist — now officially certified. Senior correspondent Barry Everingham looks at today’s events in the Australian Federal Court.
A reversal for the unrepentant Andrew Bolt - who probably doesn't like what we've done with this picture
In the Federal Court of Australia today, His Honour Justice Mordecai Bromberg confirmed what most fair thinking Australians have always known — that the sanctimonious know-it-all Andrew Bolt is a racist.
The lunatics will be rushing out of the asylums to decry the verdict and surprise, surprise, the first to do so was Opposition leader Tony Abbott, bleating that Bolt should have been free to say what he did.
And the racist himself, this Andrew Dolt, was, of course, seething with righteous indignation, calling the decision “a terrible day for free speech in this country”.
That, not to put too fine a point on it, is total bullshit and typical of Bolt — one of Australia’s most egregiously self-righteous commentators.
Just what right did he think he had to disparage a group of fellow Australians by alleging they used their Aboriginality, or part Aboriginality, for personal gain?
And coming from a man who has no Australian DNA whatsoever — he was born here of Dutch parents.
Bolt, of course, jumped on the Keith Windschuttle bandwagon that denied the mass destruction of Tasmania’s Aboriginals.
Then, as though that wasn’t enough, he took on the Stolen Generation, denying hundreds of Aboriginal children has been torn from the arms of their mothers and turned into virtual slaves or, in many cases, abused by so called “Christian” missionaries.
There’s something about Andrew Bolt that makes him – well, not interesting – but a curious bloke.
Take his obsession with Julia Gillard; he really is over the top when it comes to the Prime Minister — frothing at the mouth, his eyes wild at the merest mention of her name.
Could it be that he secretly loves her and has been rebuffed?
After all, the couple have spent time in Bolt’s beloved Israel on an all-expenses paid PR exercise…
Then there’s his attitude to Muslims and Sudanese migrants — many of them having fled their countries of birth to escape the destruction caused by the actions of George W Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard and their phoney “war on terror”.
Iraq and Afghanistan are the world’s most dangerous countries.
Today’s judgement was fair, it was correct and it was brave.
His Honour Justice Bromberg will be vilified for making it — but he needn’t worry when he sees the names of those responsible.
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A great day for free speech, and a sad day for racism, bigotry and poor journalism.
So it has come to this, Barry?
“And coming from a man who has no Australian DNA whatsoever.”
This is the test? This is the standard by which you live? Who, pray tell, has “Australian DNA”? Australia, remember, is a British name for this country. Now we must have it to even comment about current affairs, let alone to do so with any authority? Nobody has it. Do a bit of DNA research yourself.
This is the crux of this whole issue. There should only be one class of Australian – citizen. End of story. There should be no laws that put one group of citizens above any other. There should especially be no law that puts one race above another. Bolt was writing about people identifying as one race who benefitted from the privileges of that race despite no obvious sign of that race in their appearance. Quite a simple issue really.
Barry wants to make the issue personal, because he’s a lefty who hates everyone else.
Your story, Barry, not to put too fine a point on it, is total bullshit and typical of you — one of Australia’s most egregiously self-righteous commentators.
And if Barry can use those words, dear moderator, so can I.
Perhaps this indignation about racism signals that Barry d’E will now finally stop referring to Flint’s “Indonesian origins” and the “unlikely” surname of Flint’s deputy. “Know thyself”, as the ancient Greek aphorism goes.
Andrew Bolt is a racist and an Australian Citizen. Even before we become a Republic what we need to do is to separate Australian Citizenship from cultural identity. Andrew Bolt has Dutch parents. Bary, what is Australian DNA? Do you have Australian DNA? If you have, you must tell us how you got it.
Andrew bolt talks dribble. The guy is an ugly person inside and makes md want to vomit. I don’t think he is very intelligent either.
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