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# Racists Are Right (Unless You Look Left)
- URL: https://goodoil.news/racists-are-right-unless-you-look-left/
- Published: 2023-03-11T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-03-11T17:49:29.000Z
- Author: idbkiwi
- Tags: Books, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

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Laughable and ridiculous, but powerfully backed, the assault on all things conservative continues with new demonisations and ridiculous vignettes drawing associations between nut-cases and the right almost weekly it seems.

The full-on free publicity for anti-right conspiracy theorists saw red-radio and Dom-Pravda this week endorsing *Histories of Hate: The Radical Right in Aotearoa* as worthy somehow. Described as a set of ‘historical essays’ informing of conservatives’ almost genetic deplorability and over-reach into decent society, it could only have been written by academics.

Dragging out familiar demons we get a repeat of the Lionel Terry (a raving lunatic) incident, shooting and killing a Chinese man in Wellington’s Haining Street as ‘proof’. In fact, Terry incubated his hatred of Chinese while working as a miners’ union secretary in Canada: that’s inconvenient for the ‘far-right’ narrative; so too is the fact that beloved Saint Mickey Savage of Labour Inc was a vile anti-Chinese racist. How’s that far-right going?

In a double-page spread we have to wait to paragraph 39 for a hint of the truth regarding this collection of conspiracy theories, described deceitfully as ‘anomalies’, we hear: “Racists weren’t always right-wing and the strongest anti-Chinese racism in the late 19th-century came from the left.” No kidding. So what’s it doing in a book demonising the right? Simple, stupid – because they’re getting paid to say it.

A better title for the ‘book’ would be: *Over-paid Performers Obsess over Favourite Right-wing Caricature Fetishes: Some of which Is Actually True, Much of which Is Pure Tosh,* available at your bookseller now, or pick it up at the tip in a few weeks.

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