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Exercise your right to be a bigot and pay the price

The uproar over the Los Angeles Clippers owner shows why we don’t need laws to admonish racists

3 May 2014

9:00 AM

3 May 2014

9:00 AM

When Attorney-General George Brandis told the Senate in March this year that ‘people do have a right to be bigots’, his comments were seized upon by opponents of the Abbott government’s plan to reform section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Across the Twittersphere, Brandis’s ‘gaffe’ was seen to confirm the malicious intent behind the proposed changes to the RDA.

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Jeremy Sammut is a research fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies.

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