WATCH: The CIRCUS comes to town at Melbourne’s anti-Hanson rally
They skipped school to stop Pauline Hanson, but when the cameras arrived, the protesters struggled to explain exactly what she had done wrong. What followed was a chaotic Melbourne rally full of slogans, contradictions and colourful opinions.
In today's video, I want to show you another couple of interactions from the so-called 'Kids Rally' against Pauline Hanson. I left these full interactions out of the original video because chopping them up wouldn't do them justice.
Thanks to everyone who chipped in at ProtectAvi.com, I could stay in the crowd longer and actually talk to people. And the longer I stayed, the clearer it got. The story was finished before anyone had to prove it. According to the crowd, Pauline Hanson only looks after the rich. Anyone who votes for her has been conned. She’s been a bad person for years, and somehow half the country is now with her. That was the script. It was on the signs, in the chants, and in nearly every conversation I had.
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So I asked a simple question. What has she actually done to you? "She's anti-LGBTQ" came first. Then a vague line about her wanting to get rid of "multiple cultures." But the certainty that was so loud a second earlier went quiet the moment it needed a real example. The placards were sharp. The answers weren't.
Same thing when the abuse started. People in the scrum called me a clown and a loser while standing there in clown paint. Then it jumped to culture. If Hanson wins, they told me, people like me won't be allowed to keep ours, because she only wants one. Half joking, but with a straight face, I told them she'd been to my house for Chanukah. They laughed. A racist little bigot would never do that, they said. Whether they believed me isn't the point. The point is how fast a serious accusation turned into a joke the second it hit a fact they didn't like.
The usual 'stolen land' speech went the same way. One protester told me everyone here is illegal. A minute later the same protester told me no one here is illegal. When I pointed out those two things cancel each other out, I was told to go back to school. By kids who'd skipped school to be there, and were proud of it. The confidence was real. The logic wasn't.
A lot of the fear was about sexuality. Queer kids told me if Hanson gets in, they won't be able to live normally. Mentioning that her chief of staff is gay didn't slow anyone down. What kept coming back was hate-crime law. Under Hanson, they claimed, an attack over someone's sexuality would just be treated as a regular assault. I can't tell from a footpath whether that's a real policy or a rumour going phone to phone. I can tell you it didn't survive basic questions. Which bill? Which source? Where did you read it?
Watch to the end and share it far and wide. Nobody else is putting a camera in these crowds and asking the follow-up question. We are. But it doesn't happen without security, and security costs thousands every single time. If you want us back on the streets asking the questions nobody else will, go to ProtectAvi.com right now and chip in. Every dollar keeps us out there.
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