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On Q&A [QANDA] titled, 'Broadside', broadcast nationally, in Australia, on 2019-Nov-04
"How many rapists must we kill? Not the state, because I disagree with the death penalty..."
- MONA ELTAHAWY - invited panellistQ. "When trying to bring about significant change, when is aggression and violence a better option than assertiveness, strong arguments and modelling the behaviour you expect of others?.....
A. When none of that other stuff works." - MURRAY SAUNDER and ASHTON APPLEWHITEHosted by Fran Kelly... Q&A [QANDA] titled, 'Broadside', broadcast nationally, in Australia, on 2019-Nov-04 TRANSCRIPT....https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/2019-04-11/11646878There are problems in Australian society. Problems of violence, rape, and inequality. So what should Australian activists do to 'combat' those problems ? Well, the invited panellists on QANDA believe that Australian activists who want to build a better Australian society, should, maybe, kill those people who they perceive as being the cause of their problems ! And also, Australian activists, maybe, need to 'burn stuff' ! And the host, Fran Kelly, didn't even say "Boo!!!", to such suggestions, from her invited panellists on QANDA. Quote: FRAN KELLY
Hello and welcome to Q&A. I’m Fran Kelly, and tonight, we’re in Melbourne collaborating with the Wheeler Centre’s Broadside festival. On our panel, anti-ageism author Ashton Applewhite, Egyptian-American feminist Mona Eltahawy, businesswoman and social change agent Hana Assafiri, Indigenous screenwriter and activist Nayuka Gorrie, and Jess Hill, whose latest work is challenging old assumptions about male violence. Please welcome our panel.
And Q&A is coming to you live across eastern Australia on ABC TV, and across the nation on iview and NewsRadio.....
. SEARCH strings.... when is aggression and violence a better optionWhen none of that other stuff works.I want patriarchy to fear feminism. And there is a chapter in my book on violence. For me, as a feminist the most important thing is to destroy patriarchy. How many rapists must we kill? Not the state, because I disagree with the death penalty As a woman I’m asking, how many rapists must we kill until men stop raping us? Quote: MURRAY SAUNDER
Thanks, Fran. When trying to bring about significant change, when is aggression and violence a better option than assertiveness, strong arguments and modelling the behaviour you expect of others?
FRAN KELLY
Ashton?
ASHTON APPLEWHITE
When none of that other stuff works.
FRAN KELLY
It’s as simple as that?
ASHTON APPLEWHITE
Yep.
MONA ELTAHAWY
I have an answer for this that a lot of people do not like. I want patriarchy to fear feminism. And there is a chapter in my book on violence. There is a chapter in my book about white women who voted for Trump and white women who accept crumbs from patriarchy because they allow their whiteness to trump their gender. I’m fully aware of this. But at the end of the day, even those white women have to recognise that nothing protects them from patriarchy.
Nothing. For me, as a feminist the most important thing is to destroy patriarchy. And all of this talk about how, if you talk about violence, you’re just becoming like the men. So, your question is a really important one but I’m going to answer it with another question. How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill? Not the state, because I disagree with the death penalty and I want to get rid of incarceration and I’m with you on the police. So I want women themselves... As a woman I’m asking, how many rapists must we kill until men stop raping us?
. SEARCH strings.... I think violence is OKso, yeah, let’s burn stuff. Quote: NAYUKA GORRIE
So I’m thinking about, you know, a colony, we live in a colony. We’ve tried for 230-plus years to appeal to the colonisers’ morality which doesn’t seem to exist. I think violence, yeah, I think violence is OK because if someone is trying to kill you, there’s no amount of, “Oh, but I’m really clever.” You know, “I’m really articulate.” No amount of that is going to save you, so, yeah, let’s burn stuff.
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