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There's an ongoing shit storm steaming away on Twitter at the moment with some nobody who seems to be a younger, hotter, apparently more intelligent version of Germaine Greer who's using the Gee Gee's - (see what I did there?... GG ... horse....?) - tactics of using a moment when everyone is focussed on the sacrifice of many - including their own family members - to shout out from the roof tops...
CatherineDeveny
Remember war. The whole truth. Not the selective version. All the heros. All the victims. Not Anzac Day. Let's move on and learn.- 12:16 AM Apr 24th via web
Anzac Day. Fuck repect. Respect is just code for 'support our selective narrative used to prop up our power that we use to oppress.'- 12:11 AM Apr 24th via web
Live your own life. Make your own mark. Stop feeling big because your dead relative killed people because they knew no better.- 12:08 AM Apr 24th via web
Anzac Day. I abhor people whose self-esteem is fuelled by nationalism approved misogyny, homophobia, racism or cruelty administered by relos- 11:35 PM Apr 23rd via web
I adore men. I hate bullies, homophobes, thugs, racists, misogynists and rapists in the name of war.- 11:31 PM Apr 23rd via web
Anzac Day IS a glorification of war. They didn't die for us but because they were risktaking testosterone fuelled men with a pack mentality- 11:17 PM Apr 23rd via web
Bigger heroes the women who leave abusive relationships with nothing. More guts the survivors of sex abuse. No medals, fanfares or marches.- 11:10 PM Apr 23rd via web
Anzac Day. Men only enlisted to fight for the money, for the adventure or because they were racist.- 10:32 PM Apr 23rd via web
Anyone who lived through war not a fucktard says no parades, no medals, everyone who suffered and struggled remembered. Anzac Day Shits Me.- 10:30 PM Apr 23rd via web
Anzac Day. Men only inlisted to fight for the money, for the adventure or because they were racist.- 10:14 PM Apr 23rd via web
Politicians should only be allowed to wage wars they have to serve in themselves and send their children to fight in. In the front line.- 10:12 PM Apr 23rd via web
Anzac Day refuses to recognize the chest thumping and dick swinging politicians that create the death, suffering, torture and poverty of war
10:06 PM Apr 23rd via web
There's just sooo much wrong with that I don't even have the ability to respond coherently. Click HERE for someone who does. Sure, war and our role in it DOES need debate and there's really no harm in addressing ANZAC Day as part of that debate. Some of her points are echoed throughout certain parts of society. Possibly this stupid nobody retard of a woman has no concept of what actually what soldiers and support - (including families) - go through as a result, or why people went. Many had no choice. Most went due to an 'apparent' imminent threat. The continual bombing of Darwin gives credibility to this argument.
I can only assume by the "...because they were racist." she's semi-alluding to comments by Tom Hanks Re: The Pacific TV series that Dubya Dubya Deux was a war of racism and every war there after has been too. She obviously didn't grasp what he was saying, and ran with some sort of half arsed coherent version. The statement regarding it being a racist war was originally stated by Stephen E Ambrose who is arguably the number one authority on WW2.
The racist argument was about the dehumanising of the enemy. In WW1 the allies quickly gained respect of the enemy, as echoed every year on ANZAC Day regarding the Turks at Gallipoli whose bravery is highly regarded in OUR folk lore as a result of their push for ANZAC Cove. Our men went to great lengths to treat their wounded out of pure respect. This is a fact.
In the wars since, there is an ongoing effort to dehumanise the enemy to basically sell the wars to the greater society, especially considering many of them were nothing but a waste of lives. Consider Vietnam. My opinion, anyway.
This stupid bitch though, having said what she has, is IMO no different to the people standing at the funerals of the fallen and ridiculing them. Speaking of not using the selective version....
Certainly she is going to gather no further support for her arguments if she lets the sort of comments you reproduce above made on her blog go unchallenged by her.
ReplyDeleteFor me it is a simple matter of respect. I have no problem with debating the use of violence by our society, when it should and shouldn't be used. But to ascribe such motives to every single solider who ever fought in WWII?
In which case her argument would be better served by suggesting ways to recognise the suffering of those she has selected as 'special victims' as well as recognising the sacrifice of those who served and their families.
Instead she served as a rally point for the thoughtless and ignorant.
Amen to that.
ReplyDeleteDoes she by her actions or lack there of warrant FKN CAPPING!.. IMHO...prolly.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet men and women of this country are prepared to go and fight, to die for her to have her own opinion. They are members of our defence forces. Past and present, men and women have sacrificed their lives so that we may live the way we do. No matter how deluded, small minded, and ignorant some may be.
ReplyDeleteTherein lies the dignity, the legend that is the ANZAC.
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