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I need the support but I am prepared to do this on my own, despite whatever risks it may place me in. It's time to stand up to danger and dangerous people in Australia.
Hi Folks,
I am absolutely exhausted from writing post after post and having everyone, even my own local Gladstone Open Discussion group, decline me an opportunity- just an opportunity to address my concerns with the community on the dangerous precedents set when allowing radical ideologues space in our public settings.
So, I am keeping it short and saying I would like to protest Isaac Butterfield's presence in Australian venues as a performer or speaker. He has, for many years, targeted Muslim, Trans, Women in general and various diverse people, turning us into punchlines at the cost of our safety. The issue I take with Isaac isn't his opposition to many problems in Australia; we actually share very similar beliefs on several subjects. It is the other element of his platform where he selectively utilises isolated factors such as a handful of Muslim people marrying their teen kids off overseas, or trans people with very eccentric personalities or early-stage visibility in transition. He utilises these scenarios, which do not represent the wider demographic of the people he attacks and do not make even a little, if any, effort to highlight the vulnerabilities of those communities and how disenfranchised we can be. It's White Supremacy cleverly rebranded.
If you would like to help me raise awareness here are some step:
- Please contact your local member and share the links from Google Docs you'll see below. Please express your concerns around vilification and ensuing threats that can arise as a result of misinformation and wrongful antagonisation.
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JAImlWywvhy0mUHJ0-shJB0bbqWNrwV_bsIFrG4gjUE/edit?tab=t.0
- Please sign the petition I've started, it'll make a difference even if only on a community level.
https://c.org/VwxQYgcjgL
- Please consider sharing this with others, so they may see the underlying issues in Australia around moderation in public settings. We are mostly good but people like Isaac, who are mildly famous but not mainstream names, often slip through the cracks.
I am open to interviews by media bodies, whatever it takes to get people like Butterfield and unhealthy rhetoric out of our highly impressionable populace.