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Flat White

The great 18c pigeonholing

31 August 2016

7:26 AM

31 August 2016

7:26 AM

There’s a caricature for opponents of section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act. They’re supposed to be racists who are just itching to offend Muslims, Asians and Aborigines.

I support the repeal of section 18c so I have been conscripted into this caricature. The thing is, I opposed conscription in the nineteen-seventies, and I oppose conscription now.

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