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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Trolling Alan Jones
In the Fairfax papers today there's an article by David Marr describing the role of Alan Jones (2GB talkback radio host) in promoting the day of action at Cronulla on Sunday 11th December.
Marr notes that a lot of the emails Jones read out were anonymous, but designed to grab Alan's attention so he'd read them on air. So he did. And over the week people got fired up enough to go and assault anyone who didn't look white enough. Meanwhile another article describes the role of racist groups in encouraging and fomenting the violence. I don't think it's too much of a jump to conclude that some of the anonymous email Jones read out on air were sent to him by those same racist groups.
Alan Jones - you were trolled.
Marr notes that a lot of the emails Jones read out were anonymous, but designed to grab Alan's attention so he'd read them on air. So he did. And over the week people got fired up enough to go and assault anyone who didn't look white enough. Meanwhile another article describes the role of racist groups in encouraging and fomenting the violence. I don't think it's too much of a jump to conclude that some of the anonymous email Jones read out on air were sent to him by those same racist groups.
Alan Jones - you were trolled.
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