St Kilda rally: A fascist movement can only be kept small if we call it by its name | Jason Wilson

Far right groups won’t perish in the absence of attention from media - attention is what leads these groups to come apart

In the aftermath of a fascist rally, we commonly encounter the demand that we call it something else.

Among others, Alan Sunderland, an editorial director at ABC News, has called for more cautious descriptions of what happened last Saturday in St Kilda. There, around 150 far-right thugs and a sitting Australian senator gathered for an inchoate protest against a fiction: that “African gangs” present an existential threat to Melbourne.

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