So you can bet there were plenty involved in the production of news stories about noted fuckheads Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux in this past week who wished they didn't give them such a prominent platform. It still happened.
Despite spirited defences from excellent journalists like Miriama Kamo and Patrick Gower, these racist arseholes didn't have anything interesting to say, and were just not worth talking to. That's what they want, and nobody is under any obligation to provide it to them.
It was worth covering their visit to Aotearoa and the hilariously futile attempts to get a fuckin' hall to speak in, especially after they'd happily spouted deplorable nonsense in a similar event across the Tasman. The protests and venue shutdowns and fall-out were all informative and fascinating, and if there is one thing you can take from the whole mess, is that this country dealt with the situation reasonably well.
But even as they and their fascist ideals were heartily rejected by greater society, the dopey pair still got some air time on the country's biggest news bulletins, and still got to play the victim. They still got to bring up their usual bullshit talking points in 20-minute profiles, smugly throwing out arguments that had been thoroughly dismissed hundreds of fucking years ago.
But these motherfuckers are just so dumb. They're the type of person who pretends to be a hot fan and comments on their own videos, but forgets to change the fucking username. They're so fucking dumb they squirm out of the woodwork with ideas that are abhorrent to the vast majority of society and are actually shocked when they have to face some gosh-darned consequences for their actions.
They're so fucking dumb, they don't realise that history is going to look back on them as intellectually-stunted aberrations in the story of human development, blaming all their woes on other people because they don't have the guts or smarts to look in a goddamn mirror.
They just don't have anything worthwhile to say, and don't deserve the attention, even if you're obviously criticising their beliefs and everything they stand for. They are spouting hate speech by any objective measure, they shouldn't get any exposure.
A group of Free Speech arseholes - who were weirdly silent on issues like Odd Future coming into NZ, or Tiki Taane getting arrested for singing Fuck The Police at his own gig - have taken offence at the idea that white people aren't getting much of a say in modern society and attracted the usual batch of scarecrows to speak up. You've almost got to admire their gall, using one of liberal ideology's own great sacred cows against them, and claiming their rights to express themselves were being shut down, but they really weren't helping.
Because nobody is shutting these arseholes up, they have still have their own social media outlets to hook an audience of idiots on their philosophical snake oil. Everyone knows who they are, and the dickheads who think they have some kind of insane point on multiculturalism and the treatment of indigenous populations are not being blocked from those moronic views.
In this case, because everything is fucked now, it was capitalism that came to the rescue. No venue could host these dickheads without taking a significant financial hit, with an astronomical loss of goodwill from a free-spending youth demographic, and that was just bad business. It's always funny as hell to see hardcore capitalists realise the free market doesn't always do what they want, and it's also heartening to see people stand up for their beliefs, even if its something as obvious as 'racist shitheads can get fucked'.
It does matter how much media exposure is given to these objectively toxic and dumbarse ideas, and it is arguable that there was far too much. Half the Media Scrum team thought we shouldn't do anything at all about this duo here, just because we're sick of the arguments (and once again for the record, according to our learned opinion, there isn't even any argument because this is 100% hate speech, and will be treated as such).
But the other half were more passionate about laying into these shitbirds one more time, before they fuck off out of our collective consciousness for good, so here we are. Let's just hope we're all done now.
Fuck those fools. Let's move onto the next item.
- Margaret Tempest
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