“Anti-trans activists have tried to deny the presence of neo-Nazis at their rally on Saturday by spreading unfounded and false claims they were left-wing activists or undercover police, despite the far-right group’s own message of support.”
“In the aftermath of the Melbourne appearance of Kellie-Jay Keen Let Women Speak tour, the UK-based anti-trans campaigner live-streamed a “post-event chat” where she sipped champagne with Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming, failed Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves and anti-trans campaigner and host of TERF Talk Down Under Angie Jones.During the broadcast, Keen repeatedly claimed that a group of men who gave Nazi salutes, chanted “white power”, shouted slurs at the LGBTQIA+ protesters, and included public neo-Nazi figures might not have been neo-Nazis."
“All of this doesn’t make any sense, it feels really off. I mean, look in the UK. We had police impregnating animal rights campaigners. And we had those police infiltrating those groups. I don’t think it’s beyond the wits of anyone to think that either that was TRAs [trans rights activists] dressed up, or police, or, something was just off,” she said."
So, bug, would you have known without the media telling you that these men dressed in black were from the group National Socialist Network?
Would YOU recognise them if you went to Australia, and was focused on doing something else, had no idea they existed and saw men in black wearing shorts doing a nazi salute and not being immediately caught by police, and quickly and without any ability to keep doing this salute removed from the site?
I assume you are British. You as a Brit, would you have known who they were? The women were upfront in saying they had no idea who they were.
Would you have assumed the police would never have let them into the street and anywhere near either the Victoria Socialists (where those men spent at least half their time their standing in front of), the feminists (because nazis hate feminists too!) or trans people?
Instead, you assume that KJK and the women knew who those men were. Wouldn't it also be reasonable that considering it is not illegal to do that salute or to shout those words in Australia, and that what was being yelled at that event, and at most events this year (certainly at the London event I attended), that some group decided to do this to make some kind of point. They did it after the two female protestors did some weird act of shitting on the ground and a trans activist who had stood right there in front forcibly took the microphone.
Gosh.... If only everyone involved had your amazing insight.
The question remains - why did the police allow that group in. It is reasonable to believe that the police would know who they were. They are known to police. One is even a policeman's son! Why were the Socialists, the women and the trans people put into potential danger like this?
What reason did the police have to allow this to happen?