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tallowood Gold Member Offline Израиль Навсегда Posts: 7108 Gender:	Re: AU Adelaide Writers Week Festival cancelled Reply #105 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 6:58pm Adelaide Writers Week Festival cancelled.
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chimera Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 15016 Armidale Gender:	Re: AU Adelaide Writers Week Festival cancelled Reply #106 - Jan 16^th, 2026 at 7:01pm tallowood wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 6:24pm: Neither should be his rep Fatah for reason of her hypocrisy. Why?
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Reply #108 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:08am

Baronvonrort wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 5:00pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 4:56pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 9:06am:

Sir lastnail wrote on Jan 15^th, 2026 at 9:39pm:

Gnads wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 2:47pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 1:52pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 14^th, 2026 at 11:39am:

I would be interested to hear Abdel Fattah's thoughts on the Sydney shootings.

Well... she's suing Malinauskus for associating her with the Bondi massacre.

How did he do that exactly?

And she is not suing - she has sent a notice of defamation.

Long way off suing as yet.

Not far off Wink

Premier Peter Malinauskas should be charged with criminal defamation of Dr Randa Abdel Fattah

Saying that she has pro-Hamas, anti Israeli views/activism is not defamatory - it's factual.

I hope any action she tries to bring is treated with the contempt it deserves.

you mean anti-genocide views ?

Genocide claims are false they haven't been proven in ICJ

Here is what ICJ report said

Let the journos in. What's the problem ? It's a ceasefire. They have no excuse.

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Reply #109 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:13am

tallowood wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 6:34pm:

chimera wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 6:26pm:

Why? How does it affect her writing?

Unlike Salmon Rushdie "Satanic Verses" her writing is crap.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/f0b4055fa49b437eb873c0072ee...

Obviously people are not satisfied with the pro-zionist garbage they are being fed from the MSM Cheesy

LOL

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Reply #110 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 8:21am

chimera wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 6:26pm:

Why? How does it affect her writing?

It's for writers, not a festival of the morally pure enlightened excellent messiahs.
It means that science discoveries are blocked if the researcher is a nasty crim. Spending on roadways is stopped if the minister is a drunk.

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Reply #111 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:18am

Gordon wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 3:02pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 2:47pm:

Gordon wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 2:37pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 2:09pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 1:45pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 1:36pm:

Dunno, but accusing Abdel Fatah of "hypocrisy" is obviously erroneous.

You forget the meaning of hypocrisy little pink.

No I don't; and I showed those who are whining about Abdel-Fattah's hypocrisy aren't in possession of the facts....like you most of the time....

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Whining about her freedom of speech, after she called for a Jewish speaker to be silenced in the exact same way that she was, is hypocrisy, no matter how many excuses you can come up for either.

Didn't you read my extensive post (sent 10 minutes ago) outling the details of the "hypocrisy" controvery?

The question is: on what grounds should a writer be dis-invited to the festival.

Friedman's writings reveal himself to be a racist prick; whereas Abdel Fatah's writings are based on the historical fact of colonization of Palestine by zionists; even many fair-minded Jews are disgusted by the behaviour of Israel since 1948, and certainly since Israel's survival has been assured since 1967.

Paraglider Imagery: On October 8, 2023, the day after the Hamas attack, Dr. Abdel-Fattah changed her Facebook profile picture to an illustration of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag. Hamas militants used paragliders to breach the border with Israel during the attack.

Hamas used paragliders to fight back against the oppressor-colonizing state of Israel - hence Abdel-Fattah's use of the image torepresent fight-back against an oppressor.

Crap. The only oppressors are HAMAS.

Proving why 'democratic', adversarial, 2-party politicis is in chaos around the world.

The RW are blind self-interested ideolgues who don't even recognize economic inequality as a pressing problem; and in this case you don't recognize the CAUSE of Islamic terrorism, ie the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine.

Deplorable.

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Reply #113 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:46am

freediver wrote on Jan 16^th, 2026 at 3:10pm:

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More errors , as expected: freedom of speech includes freedom to speak nonsense like Freidman

Hence, she is a hypocrite for whining about her own freedom of speech after calling for him to be silenced the exact same way.

No, it's not "the exact same way" : she is saying Friedman was rejected because of the racist content of his writing; while she objects to the SA Premier seeking her disinvitation on grounds of 'cultural sensitivity' after Bondi, for which she is not responsible.

Get it into your (descriptor omitted) head: Islamic - and Hamas - terrorism is caused by the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land.

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Whether she is right, whether she is racist, whether he is right, whether he is racist, and whether giving historical justification for your racism makes you no longer racist, are all irrelevant to whether she is a hypocrite.

Why? Surely factual accuracy is an important factor in a debate between opposing views?

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Again, the little pink CCP stooge can parrot what freedom of speech means, but still gets everything backwards, because she doesn't actually care what freedom of speech means.

More errors:

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Freedom of speech .... becomes punishable when it creates a "clear and present danger" or incites "imminent lawless action," as established in Schenck v. U.S. (1919) and refined by Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). The speech is unprotected if it's false and intended to cause panic or harm, leading to potential charges like disorderly conduct or even manslaughter if death occurs, but protected if it's a truthful warning or part of a play.

Backwards?

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Reply #114 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:55am

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No, it's not "the exact same way" : she is saying Friedman was rejected because of the racist content of his writing; while she objects to the SA Premier seeking her disinvitation on grounds of 'cultural sensitivity' after Bondi

Yes, that made people in our culture particularly sensitive to racists calling for the killing of Jews.

Again, beside the point. The reason for why you say something is irrelevant to whether you should have the freedom to say it. If you actually understood what freedom of speech meant, you would understand the futility of trying to make up excuses for her hypocrisy. But alas, it is still an alien concept to you, like justice, honesty etc. You cannot distinguish any of these from from the will of the CCP.

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Reply #115 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:57am

freediver wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:29am:

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Proving why 'democratic', adversarial, 2-party politicis is in chaos around the world.

That must be terribly stressful for you. If only we had a bunch of petty bureaucrats controlling the internet and telling what to think, just like in China.

It's coming, fd, insh'allah, Alboweasel be praised. Happening in Britain already, thanks be to Schtarker.

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Reply #116 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:03pm

freediver wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:29am:

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Proving why 'democratic', adversarial, 2-party politicis is in chaos around the world.

That must be terribly stressful for you. If only we had a bunch of petty bureaucrats controlling the internet and telling what to think, just like in China.

"Stressful to me" - yes, I think good government is achievable.

But also stressful to leaders of most democracies who have to deal with the opprobrium of half the electorate; and leaders of democracies - notably Carney who is visting China to negotiate free trade deals while Trump is increasing tariffs on Canada; and France and Germany are sending soldiers to Greenland to defend that NATO country from Trump........

Plenty of stress all around; but of course you are immune: eg you claimed there is no housing-affordability crisis in Oz; oh - the bliss of ignorance...

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Reply #117 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:07pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:03pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:29am:

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Proving why 'democratic', adversarial, 2-party politicis is in chaos around the world.

That must be terribly stressful for you. If only we had a bunch of petty bureaucrats controlling the internet and telling what to think, just like in China.

"Stressful to me" - yes, I think good government is achievable.

And starving 50 million people to death by trying to feed them all equally is no barrier to good governance? So long as you don't have to think for yourself?

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Reply #118 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:19pm

Frank wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:57am:

freediver wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:29am:

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Proving why 'democratic', adversarial, 2-party politicis is in chaos around the world.

That must be terribly stressful for you. If only we had a bunch of petty bureaucrats controlling the internet and telling what to think, just like in China.

It's coming, fd, insh'allah, Alboweasel be praised. Happening in Britain already, thanks be to Schtarker.

And why do you think "petty bureaucrats "are coming"?

Hint: the private sector is no longer serving the needs of a majority of citizens...

Today of course on ABC 'Global Roaming" we had CIS free market ideologue Stutchbury pontificating on the solution : smaller governement, don't bale out Oz smelters, reduce taxes and social welfare etc etc:

In this final instalment, Michael Stutchbury - Former editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review and Executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies, says that Australia's economic luck is about to run out. He argues we need break the cycle of high spending and low growth if we want to retain anything like the prosperity we're accustomed to.

Problem is if goverment adopted his remedies, there would be riots in the streets - as opposed to just the current disappointment with Albo.

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Reply #119 - Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:27pm

freediver wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:07pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 12:03pm:

freediver wrote on Jan 17^th, 2026 at 11:29am:

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Proving why 'democratic', adversarial, 2-party politicis is in chaos around the world.

That must be terribly stressful for you. If only we had a bunch of petty bureaucrats controlling the internet and telling what to think, just like in China.

"Stressful to me" - yes, I think good government is achievable.

And starving 50 million people to death by trying to feed them all equally is no barrier to good governance? So long as you don't have to think for yourself?

Your error: mental incompetence caused by ideological blindness - meaning you have to ignore most of the post to which you imagine you are replying, and can only to divert to criticizing past failures of the CCP long before the 'Chinese miracle'.

And you claim you are thinking for yourself.

Deplorable.

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