Thread by @geofflemon

So after discussions about the Murdoch press demonising Muslims, they make it a few days before sending the trolls after Osman Faruqi.

Oz is a good person trying to do good, and being punished for it because of who he is. It's blatantly fucked racism and it just keeps coming.

Anyone who cites "anti-white racism" in a majority white country is either twisting reality to claim victimhood in a totally cynical sham, or has been duped by the same.

Those citing it are mostly supremacists – or columnists at major newspapers.

One of the favourite racist tactics is accusing those who campaign against racism of being racist. Twisting an opponent's ethics into weapons to use against them.

It's about five minutes since professional racist Mark Latham got thumped in court for calling Osman "anti-white". Yet here come the Murdoch papers running the exact same discredited argument.

It's pretty telling that the 'evidence' against Osman is the same handful of screenshotted pisstake tweets. Two sources have published these recently:

1) white supremacist online accounts

2) The Murdoch papers

Criticising a power structure dominated by white people will require talking about whiteness. It will involve frustration. It wil even (shock) involve pointed jokes.

Rejecting criticism because of the method used to convey it is perpetuating white supremacy.

After years of race-baiting, the Murdoch media buboes are desperately trying to deflect. They ran schmaltzy front pages, then blamed the internet, and now back to blaming Muslims and video games and Europe, and running profiles on the killer who NZ asked people not to name.

The same media organisation that days ago closed ranks to defend a convicted paedophile because he had the right cultural background will attack people working against racism as "divisive".

Yeah, it's terrible when people name the discrimination that's right there.

And it's easy to write this off as hollow culture-wars bullshit, but it has a cost. Being targeted by these joints means targeted harassment from those who follow them. Hundreds of times more so if you're Muslim.

It's almost comical to hear Sky Aus or tabloid pundits indignantly deny race-baiting, when it's quantifiably provable in their own product hounding the likes of Osman or Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Osman Faruqi is a fucking legend. He's a lovely human being to everyone around him.

And here's the thing – he's just a guy. Not a spokesman. Not a politician. A guy speaking out about something, and being torched for it.

That's Australian racism. Clear as day.

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