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For perhaps the first time in her public life, the odious Grace Tame is finally being held accountable. For years, she has been given licence to pout, scowl and generally behave like a spoiled lefty child. All because she was protected by the media femocracy and the inviolable shield of ‘victimhood’. Except that, as former PM Tony Abbott pointed out to howls of screeching indignation, suffering doesn’t make anyone a saint.
This is the highest heresy in a culture where victimhood is sainthood. As Ben Elton wrote in Popcorn, victimhood is the golden ticket: “Nothing is anybody’s fault. We don’t do wrong, we have problems. We’re victims.”
Except it looks as if the graceless Tame has finally and deservedly worn out her ‘victim’ card.
One of Australia’s most prestigious schools is dumping Grace Tame from its anti-rape campaign after she led a crowd to chant ‘globalise the intifada’ at a Sydney rally.
Tame has featured heavily in the Consent And Healthy Relationships classes for girls in years nine and 10 at Sydney’s elite Conservatorium High School for gifted musicians […]
But the Daily Mail can reveal her role in the lessons is being removed after her actions sparked concerns she may have been ‘promoting violence against a race of people’.
There’s no ‘concerns’ about it – it’s exactly what she did.
Tame led a chant from a microphone on the steps of Sydney Town Hall of ‘From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the Intifada’, which was echoed by thousands below, waving Palestinian flags.
‘Gadigal’ is the lefty’s pretend-‘Aboriginal’ name for Sydney. ‘Intifada’, as Brendan O’Neill says, means one thing: “a call for anti-Jewish violence”.
NSW has been considering following the Queensland Government and banning the chant as hate speech when used to cause menace, harassment or offence.
Since her leading role in the anti-Herzog rally, several petitions have been launched to strip Tame of her 2021 Australian of the Year title, with one attracting more than 26,000 signatures.
Predictably, Tame is whining that, once again, she’s the ‘victim’. “I refuse to be silent,” she claims.
No, the problem is that she is constitutionally unable to ever shut her damn fool mouth. Like all spoiled children, once she’s finally given a well-deserved smack on the arse, she screams blue murder.
As is always the case with awful children, the parents are to blame. In this case, the chattering classes acting in loco parentis – and engendering a rude, insufferable brat.
A classic example was when Tame so rudely posed for a photograph with former PM Scott Morrison when visiting his official residence for a function. Rather than just not go, or politely decline to be photographed in the first place, Tame looked like she was in a hostage video while the Morrisons smiled for the camera.
I had the temerity to call out the rude, juvenile display unbecoming of our Australian of the Year, only to be shouted at by Tame’s conga line of sycophants on the left who hated Morrison and idolised her.
And I was an ardent Morrison critic myself!
As is always the way, letting spoiled children get away with bad behaviour only encourages them.
But look at all of Tame’s antics since that time – including showing up at one of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s events wearing a T-shirt with the words ‘F**k Murdoch’ plastered across it. Charming.
Her classy display didn’t end there. She later took to social media to exclaim that she didn't mean it literally when referring to the 94-year-old mogul.
But her antics have morphed from juvenile to reckless since then.
Tame’s decision to lead a crowd chant to ‘globalise the intifada’ at a Sydney rally wasn’t a minor slip or a misunderstood flourish. It was deliberate wording and timing.
It landed during a febrile, grieving period in Sydney, with heightened anxiety in the Jewish community and acute political sensitivity around protest rhetoric.
That’s making the big assumption, of course, that she is even mentally capable of understanding the rote-learned lefty slogans she screeches.
Yet, wet lefty that he is, Peter van Onselen can’t bring himself to admit the obvious: Tame must be stripped of her Australian of the Year award.
However, anyone calling for her to be stripped of her Australian of the Year title should understand what they are really proposing.
Big of him to assume we don’t.
The National Australia Day Council has a formal ‘Withdrawal of Award Policy’ that explicitly allows review and revocation, including where, in the board’s opinion, the recipient has behaved in a manner that has brought the awards into disrepute.
Does PvO seriously argue that she hasn’t? Then what’s his point?
But the smarter question is whether doing it to Tame would achieve anything other than making her the story she so desperately wants to be. She would love becoming a martyr. She would dine out on it for decades. She would use the revocation as proof positive that Australia punishes her for speaking the truth, and her supporters would weaponise it as evidence that the establishment silences dissent.
It’s far too late for that. Because that’s all she does and ever has done. ‘Victim’ is the only card in her deck, and she’ll keep playing it desperately, no matter how tattered and worn it is. Coddling Tame because she’ll cry ‘victim’ again is simply playing into her manipulative hands.
She’s already lost a major sponsorship with Nike. She must be make to lose the award she’s brought into such disrepute.
No matter how much she stamps her little feets and holds her little bweafs.
