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The metastasising of 18c

15 December 2016

5:30 PM

15 December 2016

5:30 PM

snip20161215_20My first action, after the initial wave of nauseated disbelief had passed, was to check on Google to see if the story could somehow, possibly, be true.

It was true. Something called the Australian Japanese Community Network is bringing an action under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act against a monument at the Ashfield Uniting Church commemorating the 200, 000 women – mainly Korean – forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese for the benefit of their troops during World War II.

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