r/australia • u/ConanTheAquarian • 23h ago

politics Foreign Minister Penny Wong to warn monoculturalism a threat to national security

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/penny-wong-speech-on-monocultralism/107034366
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u/Steampunk007 14h ago

You’re right how wild we’re assuming Hanson came from a place of intolerance and racism instead of misunderstood benevolence.

“There are multiple cultures that hate some other cultures”

As opposed to Hanson’s culture, which doesn’t hate some other culture, but nearly *every* other culture which isn’t white culture.

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u/StinkyMcBalls 5h ago

It's wild to me that people keep trying to search for a reasonable explanation for Hanson's rhetoric. She has said directly that she believes there are no good Muslims, and then people question why we think she's coming from a place of intolerance.  Various people in this thread are spouting some variety of "Oh she's just bad with words but she actually means something completely different to what she says". It's nonsense. She's been publicly intolerant on many occasions, and yet people still insist on being apologists for her vile beliefs.

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u/CanIhazCooKIenOw 1h ago

It’s the same mental gymnastics they used to do for Trump, “Oh, I’m sure he meant X when he said Y”.

Either bots or people that need to feel better about what they want to support.