I vehemently disagreed with Yasmin Abdel Magied's post on ANZAC Day, but she had a right to say what she thought no matter how insensitive it came across. That's the price we pay for having free expression.
To be honest, I stopped taking her seriously when she said Islam was a "feminist religion" a few months back on Q&A.
Things that make you go.......WTF?
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^ Ha, that was a classic. 
I can do better than that: I stopped taking her seriously when I first heard of her. But defence of free speech does, as they say, often require a passionate defence of annoying people.
I can do better than that: I stopped taking her seriously when I first heard of her. But defence of free speech does, as they say, often require a passionate defence of annoying people."Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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I don't think anyone said she should be locked up or stoned for saying it, but pretty much anything else is ok! Maybe her employer could get her a book on manners, etiquette, here's a start, 'how to win friends and influence people's she knew damn well it would piss people off, so let her face the consequences and if the ABC feel she has hurt their business, they should be able to punish her, as she is employed by them to speak to the public. If they stick up for her, then viewers have the right to turn the bitch off, and then the ratings drop.
DavI'd she must have known the reaction she would get, she can wear the damage.
DavI'd she must have known the reaction she would get, she can wear the damage.
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
Civilians who die because of war are not actually as dead as people who are shipped off to do the killing but, tragically, die before they get all the grenade-lobbing out of their systems. Such a waste of talent, ambition and focus.
Sarin doesn't really kill you, either, unless you are in enemy uniform.
Surely, Ms Magpied understands this? What right has she to express some mild equivocation?
"Throw her in the moat - if she's a witch, she'll float".
Sarin doesn't really kill you, either, unless you are in enemy uniform.
Surely, Ms Magpied understands this? What right has she to express some mild equivocation?
"Throw her in the moat - if she's a witch, she'll float".
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I never took her seriously.David wrote:^ Ha, that was a classic.
personally i consider the people passionately defending her to be equally deluded as the people passionately attacking her.
She's a light weight airhead attention seeker. She has the right to say/post what she likes (I won't say thinks, that implies she's capable of that) and others have the right to disagree with what she says, and say so too.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Putting the words "Think" and "the guardian" in the same sentence is just as scary.David wrote:The difference is that the people passionately attacking her are in charge of the country as opposed to writing think-pieces in The Guardian. That's a little scary.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Nah she's already had that at taxpayer expense!stui magpie wrote: being born/raised in Australia, she obviously needs a reality check.
maybe a holiday to the birthplace of Islam, Saudi Arabia?
Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied who recently came under fire for her 'disrespectful' Anzac Day comments went on a government-funded book tour of the Middle East which cost taxpayers more than $11,000.
The book tour in late 2016 took the ABC broadcaster to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, Egypt and Sudan and was paid for by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, The Australian reported.
The department has confirmed the Middle East visit cost $11,485, including Ms Abdel-Magied's travel at $3246.20, accommodation for $4605.87 and $3632.93 for 'incidentals'.
Yes sorry Daily Mail link because many others are paywalled!
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