Social cohesion and white supremacy in Australia

"Australia does have a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent.

"Since the voice to parliament referendum emboldened the right, racists and bots swarm like flies on a turd to any Indigenous topic."

"The terror and violence usually happens on a case-by-case basis these days."

"When the Bondi royal commission was announced, there were loud calls for anti-Indigenous racism to be addressed, as well as antisemitism. The racism we endure, is, after all, as Australian as meat pies and Holden cars."
- Melissa Lucashenko >>

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/19/melissa-lucashenko-on-rebuilding-social-cohesion-indigenous-australians-ntwnfb
#IndigenousPeoples #cohesion #violence #genocide #WhiteSupremacy #hate #racism #HateSpeechLaws #treaty #antisemitism #Australia #dehumanisation

‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel

Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor

The Guardian

Last March, Samson was in #London for a secret breakfast meeting with #NigelFarage, Britain’s most prominent right-wing populist, to discuss abortion & “censorship”. In May, he was in #Paris trying to convince a #HumanRights commission that #MarineLePen, a French #FarRight leader recently convicted of embezzlement, had been unjustly persecuted.

#ConspiracyTheories #GreatReplacementTheory #WhiteSupremacy #kakistocracy #extremism #CultureWar #Trump #US #Europe #geopolitics #USpol

He has shocked its mainstream leaders, many of them with decades of experience in diplomacy, by accusing them of stifling freedom & by frequently meeting with & promoting their hard-line challengers. He is just 5 years out of college, & he has repeatedly advocated an approach that overturns 3 generations of #US diplomatic orthodoxy.

#ConspiracyTheories #GreatReplacementTheory #WhiteSupremacy #kakistocracy #FarRight #extremism #CultureWar #Trump #Europe #geopolitics #USpol

For much of the past year, Samson has been at the forefront of #Trump’s effort to reshape America’s relationship with #Europe. Touring the continent, Samson has sought to cultivate Washington’s ties with #FarRight Europeans & bolster such figures at the expense of Europe’s centrist establishment.

#ConspiracyTheories #GreatReplacementTheory #WhiteSupremacy #kakistocracy #extremism #CultureWar #US #geopolitics #USpol

The Americans railed against European #regulation of #socialmedia, calling it a tool for stamping out conservative opinions. And the group discussed a bogus #FarRight #ConspiracyTheory that mainstream European leaders were seeking to replace #white populations with nonwhite immigrants.

#ConspiracyTheories #GreatReplacementTheory #WhiteSupremacy #extremism #CultureWar #Trump #US #Europe #geopolitics #USpol

The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s Cultural War With Europe

Five years out of college, Samuel Samson has driven the Trump administration’s push to upend America’s postwar relationship with Europe.

The New York Times

"Mainstream media has colluded by continuing to cover the parts as though they were truly symmetrical (which often requires blowing up some minor democratic misdemeanor as though it were the equivalent of a Republican felony or just playing down the corruption and harm of the latter party)."

#Republicans #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #misogyny #democracy
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"Trump, the man who would be dictator, the attempted stealer of elections and suppressor of votes, the enthusiast for reinstating the old inequalities of race and gender and suspending civil and human rights, the fan of Putin and Orban, is where that decision was always leading."

#Republicans #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #misogyny #democracy
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"Or it could double down on its positions – support for the rich, first of all, hiding out behind hot-button issues like guns and abortion – and go to war with democracy. Of course they chose the latter path, and as their positions became increasingly unpopular they had to become increasingly undemocratic."

#Republicans #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #misogyny #democracy
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"At some point in the past, the Republican Party reached a crossroads. The party could either adapt to an increasingly progressive, increasingly multiracial democracy in which women were increasingly empowered by modifying its positions to appeal to the broad spectrum of voters."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Republicans #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #misogyny #democracy
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Everything Is Changing Fast: A Brisk Tour Through Shifting Views

In this chaotic, transformative period, a lot of realities are changing in a lot of ways, and public opinion is often either changing with it or leading the change. We are not who we were even a few years ago when it comes to opposition to "Epstein class" billionaires, artificial

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