Thread by @YaThinkN

Bullshit! I am not buying this denial.

A. Lenore Taylor is a bloody good journalist & would not report without due diligence.

B. Morrison & co have shown by their words & actions over the years they love the race-baiting as an election strategy.

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The government is just now realising that all the mainstreaming of hate they have done over the years is coming back to bite them in the arse.

Let's face it, these pricks wanted a terror attack, just not the one they got.

They are also betting on the fact that so many in our press gallery still follow that bullshit line of "well if the Minister says... we have to take him at his word..."

We all know how often these pricks have lied, not obfuscated, but LIED!

Journalists themselves know they have been lied to, yet, insist on playing this game of 'take govt at their word'.

Taking them at their word, reporting verbatim without context is how we ended up with the mainstreaming of hate in this nation.

Stop! Just stop it! These people are not just some sort of special calibre of humans where they should be 'respected' with no cause when they utter their shite.

They are fracking politicians!

Look at the evidence around you FFS!

Look at the Ministers quoted in this report, saying Morrison didn't suggest Anti-Muslim election strategy...

Dutton? Dutton FFS! The man who has bullshitted how often? Gave us 'African Gangs'?

Get stuffed!

Hell, even with the African Gangs bullshit from Dutton, all the media just reported it.

Just reported this crap verbatim.

Why did no-one put in context, you know, context of it being a bullshit election strategy fear-mongering and HARMFUL to fellow Australians?

People were harmed by this African Gangs bullshit 'just reported' on by media.

Where is your sense of responsibility? Are you going to also report "Hey drink driving is a hoot", just because some dickhead Minister with no morals says it in a presser?

No, you won't. As Drink Driving is one of the things you all seem to agree on is a no-go area.

Yet you happily report all the racist, hateful rubbish couched in 'border force', 'keeping Australians safe' terms that you know deep down is just race-baiting.

Is that not dangerous?

Some journos are reflecting on their role, for that I thank you.

For others...
Praising Morrison coz he finally said something decent? Get in the fracking bin!

He is part of the problem, he helped radicalise this white supremacist with his race-baiting shit over past decade.

Now you are giving him a leave-pass? Never mentioning his role?

What happened to your famous 'context'.

You know, remember how Gillard got smashed over misogyny speech, considered invalid coz she had screwed over single mothers.

Most of you in media collectively decided the misogyny speech could not be credited due to Gillard's past actions against single mothers that invalidated her words.

Yet for some reason, PM Morrisons past words & actions race-baiting are cool if he says 'nice stuff now'?

No! Just No!!

You all love your 'controversial', 'questionable' or my fave 'so-called' precursors you use to subtly call bullshit on what you are reporting, so we know you can do it.

You choose not to.

To 'choose' to pretend that PM Morrison, Dutton etc are people to be respected, taken at their word and in some cases even praise their 'strong response' in regard to Christchurch is to be frank, beyond fracking offensive!

These men are part of the problem these people are dead.

The response from some journalists is astonishing. Even with 50 dead, MUSLIMS, you know, the people you guys have either demonised in the papers or been the mouthpiece of hate against on behalf of Government MINISTERS, you are still ignoring the root cause of that hate?

Bloody Hell, I have seen more pearl clutching against the kid with the egg prank, yes a prank!

Happens all over the nation, designed to humiliate and be a pain in the arse, is not a freaking act of violence like some are dramatising.

How the frack can you trash this kid, who, at least unlike the other adults around has actually STOOD UP AGAINST FASCISM.

You people have helped mainstream it and then trash the kid who had the decency to use a prank to say NO?!

Again, get in the bin!

For too long you have all seen everything that comes out of the mouths of PM's & Govt Ministers as just part of the 'political game'.

It is not a game!

There is a reality behind this game. Decisions made that affect people's lives.

Unless you are going to report the reality of the rhetoric, I am not subscribing to you.

Unless you are going to report the true context of crap that Ministers & PM utter then I am not subscribing to you.

We have people who have died from #RoboDebt. We have people starving on #NewStart. We have aged people harmed in care. We have Indigenous suicides. We have towns without water.

The list goes on.

This REALITY is rarely reported & when it is, still in the 'game' narrative.

People who don't have water, don't give a shit who is going to "poll better this weekend as they had a better message"?

FFS! This is what so many of you are serving us as news.

I will reiterate. #NotAllMedia.

Some are doing well, some like Guardian are actually reporting the reality of Govt programs.

The vast majority though, and I include ABC are NOT!

It is bad enough that you are so badly informing the Australian public due to your addiction to 'game of politics', but your mainstreaming of hate that has come out of this govt since Howard years has resulted in death.

Stop it!
Wake up to yourselves!

Saying... We have just reported what the Government was saying is not good enough.

You knew what the Government was saying. You knew it was race-baiting, you chose to pretend you are just 'reporting'.

Now many of you are doing the same with PM & Dutton?

You are again, just looking at what they say now in terms of the fracking 'political game'.

You are not stupid people. You KNOW this strategy has been to divide the nation and keep them in fear.

People link boat people to terrorists because of YOUR reporting of Govt BS!

Please, I beg of you. Learn from this. FFS!

If 50 deaths of innocent Muslims by a white supremacist radicalised int his nation does not wake you up, what the hell will?

I say enough! Enough of being tolerant, enough of the faux both sides bullshit!

I WILL NOT TOLERATE even veiled racist crap.

ANY journalist who follows the 'just reporting what Govt says' without context I will pull my subscription.

I would urge others to do the same.

We obviously can't rely on Government to be the adults in the room, hell, they caused this chaos in the room.

Sadly too many in media who are 'supposed to hold Government to account' have aided and abetted them in the race-baiting.

Enough! It is time for Australians to take the ethics of @slpng_giants_oz and run with it.

SKY & likes of Anning are easy targets as most blatant. BUT they get their lead from past actions and words of Howard, PM Morrison, Dutton and more.

Stop excusing them!

Stop making out like they are not culpable, they are.

We Australians, who never want to see another massacre like in Christchurch, who care about our fellow human beings, who care about a future, need to STAND UP NOW!

Don't walk past any dog whistling.

Call it out.

Don't let history be re-written.

Call it out.

Don't allow ANY media to profit off race-baiting.

Call it out.

Stop paying for it.

Tell advertisers you will stop paying them too.

Don't get caught up in dodgy bloody academic arguments over whether something is racist or not.

If you feel uncomfortable, your gut is probably right, don't buy the 'we are just reporting...' shite from anyone in media.

If they report racist shite unquestioned, call it out!

ANY member of this current government who tries to deflect their own culpability in grooming so many white supremacist racists in this nation by pointing finger at Anning or Hanson?

CALL IT OUT!

Sure, call out Anning & Hanson, BUT don't let Govt off the hook.

Hanson and Anning could only get a foot in the door of Government due to the racist environment our current LNP Government has ramped up and mainstreamed.

They are ultimately responsible.

Innocent people are dead because they normalised racism & fear of 'other'.

So be vigilent.

As I said, if you feel in gut something is racist or fear mongering. Call it out.

If unsure? Hey, plenty of people of colour and Muslims online, take your lead from them.

Following @IndigenousX is a bloody good start.

Anyhow...

I have personally decided that I will have a ZERO TOLERANCE to even the flirting with race-baiting from both politicians and media.

I will be calling it out.

I will be actively using the power of my subscription dollar to address.

I would urge other Australians online to do the same.

Too many in media are whining about Social Media being the bad guy when it comes to rise of racism in this nation.

umm it is a platform. Where did the dickheads participating get the ideas from in the first place?

These racist, white supremacist ideas didn't magically appear on Social Media.

Leaders, in this nation and around the world kicked off this shite, Social Media just let the dickheads communicate easily.

Well, social media can hopefully stop the dickheads too.

If enough of stand up we can change this country, I honestly believe we can.

So please, CALL OUT RACE-BAITING in all it's forms from both Government and Media.

This does not mean 'abusing' people on social media.

DO NOT BE ABUSIVE. Be better than that.

DO NOT quote tweets that are abusive or links to shitty racist pieces, you profit them by doing so.

Screenshot the offensive tweet.

Screenshot the offensive article, video, you name it.

Don't inadvertently help to profit the offender you are trying to call out.

Calling out a Journalist or a media org or another tweet does not mean you have to be rude, offensive or abusive.

AND NEVER EVER use sexist or misogynist language. If you do so, you will see me saying "Have a good day!"

That is my phrase for frack off you are blocked!

We can all express our unhappiness without lowering ourselves to the level of the troglodytes who flog their racist agendas.

Remember also, many who flog this divisive crap are not even racist, they are worse, they don't give a shit about the harm, just the clicks. Don't buy it!

I'll finish with:

Expect better.
Don't let PM & Ministers off the hook, they are culpable.
Don't let ALL media who have given platforms off the hook, they are culpable.

I hope many of you will join me in my zero tolerance stance towards race-baiting in this nation.

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