So don’t vilify people Canberrans!
It gets more and more sinister.
ACT is Australian Capital Territory, so that’s the Twitter account of the Australian Capital Territory Human Rights Commission – which is disturbing. Apparently it’s against the law to “vilify” people in the ACT, but the ACTHRC doesn’t bother to tell us what “vilify” means. It’s hard to believe that liking Facebook posts amounts to “vilification” under Australian law but who the fuck knows at this point. But don’t worry, folks, just don’t “vilify” anyone and you’ll be fine. (Am I “vilifying” the ACTHRC by writing this post? Probably. Fortunately I don’t live in their jurisdiction.)
Their tweet gloating over the $10,000 that Beth Rep was told to give that former Army captain got ratioed, so this new tweet is apparently a response to the ratio. How dare you disagree with our gloating, laws against vilification of trans people are there for a reason! Of course liking Facebook comments is vilification!
And it applies to other groups too! See?
No tweet for “on the basis of sex” though. I guess vilification of women is fine. Don’t bother giving them a call for a confidential chat about boring dreary probably transphobic women.
I hope they get flooded with cases of women who are Black, indigenous, disabled, or whatever else the tweet said was protected–I’m sure plenty of women meeting these criteria have rape and death threats to share.
The ACT is a weird place. It’s a company town, the company being the Australian government. A place that for most of its existence was run directly by bureaucrats and still, it seems, is run with an ultra-bureaucratic mindset. I worked there for a few months years ago and couldn’t wait to get out of there.
Sounds very like DC (Washington DC) – very company town, very one-eyed, very full of bureaucrats (and lobbyists, who are probably less pervasive in places that aren’t as insanely CORRUPT as we are).
Yes, like DC, if DC were for some reason located in the middle of Nebraska and no one really wanted to go there. So besides the politicians (in season) it’s just bureaucrats as far as the eye can see. The real politicking, I gather, is carried on elsewhere.
Heh. DC isn’t in Nebraska to be sure, but it is in a notoriously bad choice of setting: a malarial swamp. It’s not malarial now, that I know of, but it is a wretched climate in summer.
Well, Nebraska’s not a malarial swamp, for sure. But it is a swamp of racist, misogynistic bravado that acts like Texas – with much less reason, since at least people have heard of Texas. He’s right, no one wants to go to central Nebraska. I’m still trying to figure out why I came here…wait, I was offered a job. Oh, that’s right. Silly me.
Still regretting the fact that my ‘perfect’ interview, ‘perfect’ resume, and ‘perfect’ credentials failed to net me the job I wanted in upper Wisconsin. They found someone more ‘perfect’ – which might have to do with the actual hiree being male. Or not, but it’s hard to imagine what could be better than ‘perfect’, which is the epithet they used repeatedly when interviewing me.
So now I’m stuck in Nebraska. Guess I won’t think about relocating to ACT, if it’s like Nebraska in any way.
Argh. I too would much prefer upper Wisconsin.