I remember my Year Eleven History Teacher saying that Nazism was fascism with anti-Semitism. In Germany, between the formation of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party and the surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945, that was true, but it doesn’t have to be anti-Semitic to be Nazi. Hitler…

I remember, when I was in Year Twelve, proudly going home and telling my mother that I had learnt that men who sexually abuse young boys are not homosexuals, they are paedophiles. My mother looked at me and replied, “I know.” This was the same woman who, three years earlier…

If I had been my great-grandfather, and was able to place a 21st Century head onto a 19th Century man’s shoulders, when my first wife (my great-grandmother was his second wife) was sick and about to enter childbirth, I would have mounted my horse and ridden down to the local…

I was always pretty nimble and agile and was given a great deal of freedom to enjoy the great outdoors. I became involved in a few scraps around the neighborhood, one of which saw me have a broken jaw. I did have a big bully harm my leg, and that…

One day, when I was in primary school, I was bored but didn’t have a lot of time, so I started to read a book titled “Oliver Button Is A Sissy”. Oliver Button liked going into the attic of his parents’ house and dressing up and dancing. His father said…

Today, I saw trans exclusionary radical feminists on twitter arguing that Owen Jones was ridiculous for making some comparisons between the KKK and TERFs, but let’s break them down a little. The KKK were, and still are, bunches of white supremacists who meet wearing white hoods and white gowns. Of…

Before it became a mouthpiece for right-wing extremists, I remember reading a newspaper that had an article that began with, “Navels are in. Which means that they are out.” It then devoted half a page to writing about them and asked numerous women why they wore crop tops. The reasons…

A despicable right-wing Australian politician talked of one South Australian Member of the Legislative Council who is in her party and is descended from European Jewish immigrants and said that she supported immigration that would assimilate into Australia. She expressed admiration for a former, now deceased Australian Labor politician who…

A particularly despicable Australian politician who is an opponent of multiculturalism held Bosnia up as an example of the failure of multiculturalism. Bosnia is an extreme example, and only someone who could be described as an anti-intellectual cherry picker would highlight it. And let’s not forget that Bosnia was a…