It was a vast, right-wing conspiracy — a concerted effort — explains Yassmin Abdel-Magied:
“I don’t know how to explain how traumatic 2017 was,” she told SBS’ The Feed. “There’s nothing fun about it. It’s just like, people are mean for a whole year.”
On Anzac Day last year, Abdel-Magied posted a private Facebook post that read: “Lest We Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine …)”
The post sparked a furious backlash, and the author received a seemingly endless barrage of abuse and death threats on social media in response.
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