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# Face of the Day: The Kiwi Socialist, Unionist who was a ‘White Supremacist’
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-the-kiwi-socialist-unionist-who-was-a-white-supremacist/
- Published: 2020-01-12T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-12T09:45:47.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Media, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

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The BFD: Source PAPERSPAST A newspaper cartoon from 1880 showing **Arthur Desmond** being fired from his position at the **socialist** newspaper The Tribune.

A little bird tells me that a ‘far-left’ (sarc.) teller of tall tales and close associate of criminal hacker Rawshark is back to his old tricks. His next book scheduled to drop this year close to the election is all about…wait for it…wait for it…**white supremacists in New Zealand**.

I am sure that it is a complete coincidence that *Stuff* yesterday publisheda story from the **1880s** about today’s face of the day as white supremacists are [very thin on the ground ](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/04/the-white-nationalist-who-wasnt/?ref=goodoil.news)in our little slice of paradise in modern times. So thin in fact that I can only assume that if the rumours about Nicky Hager’s book are true he will have to resort to his usual technique of spinning a tale short on facts and evidence into one long on innuendo, defamation and smear.

Disappointingly for the media, today’s face of the day doesn’t quite fit the stereotype that they are trying to create of far-right extremists being white supremacists. **Arthur Desmond**worked for a **Socialist newspaper** and was a failed politician who considered himself to be a “democratic **socialist**.” He was also prominent in the **Union** movement.

A racist who followed a socialist ideology.

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