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What makes the Israel Folau lynching that different to doxing?

1 July 2019

3:12 PM

1 July 2019

3:12 PM

It’s been interesting to watch Australia’s commentariat largely misread Israel Folau’s recent travails. Folau’s ordeal isn’t, in substance, a sterile technical argument about freedom of speech, freedom of religion or employment law. Folau’s torment is about the politics of personal destruction.

As a prominent Australian sportsman, Folau’s transgression against the pieties of the progressive’s new moral code wasn’t to go unpunished.

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