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Sir: What can account for the hysterical reaction in some quarters to Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Facebook post on Anzac Day (Michael Davis, 6 May, among others)? Anyone would think that Ms Abdel-Magied had denounced Anzac Day as a jingoistic ritual, branded the Anzacs willing dupes of imperialist propaganda and urged Australians to burn the flag on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance.
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