Published: August 14, 2018
The words Fraser Anning reserved for the Muslim community were once directed at Jews who had survived the Holocaust
There is much to find objectionable in Senator Fraser Anning’s first speech to the Australian Senate. The baffling, deplorable invocation of Nazi genocide by referring to immigration as a “problem” requiring a “final solution”, is particularly striking. But we mustn’t allow this conspicuous statement to prevent us from seeing the real animus and the real purpose of the speech. It is a call for a return to a darker time of policy-making on the basis of national origin, skin colour, and religion.
Anning fails to comprehend what it is that makes our country great and what it is that is truly worth protecting.
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