At every
opportunity Bolt can find he attempts to subtly push his racist agenda at his
blog by using topical news items to demonise certain targeted groups. He achieves
this by cherry-picking only news items that show non-white non-European
Australians to be the perpetrators of mainly violent crimes – especially if those
crimes include rape and murder.
Today, Bolt
highlights an AAP story
published in the Sydney Morning Herald
about two sixteen-year-old girls who were sexually assaulted in a Sydney park
by three men who the SMH described variously
as being of ‘dark complexion, thin build and with black hair’. Bolt then cut
and pastes the police
media release about the crime which, as well as describing the perpetrators
as the SMH did, added that the three
men were of ‘Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance’.
This was
enough for Bolt.
Bolt takes
advantage of the story to push his racist agenda in two ways. First, he pans
the SMH by asking; why did the SMH, a media outlet that Bolt regards as
‘Left-wing’ and also happens to be one of Murdoch’s rival newspapers, not
mention the ethnicity of the perpetrators as the police had done in their media
release? And, secondly, by knowing the perpetrators were of Mediterranean/Middle
Eastern appearance, he knows that his readers will presume they are probably
Arab and, therefore, likely to be Muslims – indeed, everything that Bolt and his
bloggies hate. Added to this is the fact that, because the ethnicity of the two
girls was not described, it would be presumed that they were white Europeans
even though we don’t actually know their ethnicity. Bolt relies on his previous
stereotyping stories of non-European men attacking white girls to complete his propaganda
picture. He will leave it to his coterie of racist bloggies to complete the demonisation
of Bolt’s targeted group.
Mentioning
that describing the perpetrators as being of ‘Mediterranean/Middle Eastern
appearance’ actually means very little ethnicity-wise since the region covers a
hole region of the planet containing people of many ‘ethnicities’ ranging from
Africans to Israelis would be about as useful as merely mentioning them as the SMH had.
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