Expel the feminist
The witch trial of Moira Deeming continues.
Liberal divisions over a bid to expel Victorian MP Moira Deeming from the party room are expected to deepen, despite leader John Pesutto claiming an early victory after an attempt to delay a vote over her future failed.
Liberal MPs will decide early next week whether Deeming should be expelled from the parliamentary party, after she attended a rally headlined by British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen where neo-Nazis were photographed performing the Nazi salute at the weekend.
Deeming has vowed to fight the expulsion and says she has done nothing wrong.
How dare she, right? Saying she’s done nothing wrong by attending a feminist rally! She must be a witch!
Pesutto’s letter of motion, addressed to Deeming, was publicly released on Tuesday morning, outlining the allegations she “conducted activities in a manner likely to bring discredit on the Parliament or the Parliamentary Party”.
He alleges Deeming attended the rally despite Keen being “known to be publicly associated with far right-wing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activist”.
“Known” by whom? What does “associated with” mean?
From what I can tell she’s accused of consorting with demons because the demons show up at her rallies and she doesn’t magic them away. An accusation is not a conviction. I suspect the accusers just want to shut her down, and accusations of consorting are an easy path to that goal.
No, he’s doing that himself. He’s the one who should be expelled.
I can’t find the news segment, but Pesutto acknowledged that Deeming likely did not know the nazis were going to gatecrash that event. He’s still trying to kick her out, but he switched excuses – apparently the rally itself is a bad enough association to warrant her expulsion. Strange that he didn’t lead with that if so. More likely I think is even after he discovered he had jumped the gun, he couldn’t back down without losing credibility.
I witnessed Goody Deeming dancing around with fire with a Nazi at midnight.
Goody Deeming sent her spirit to pinch me!
I find it just bizarre that Pesutto would leap to condemn one of his own MP’s in such a way, then mid attack have to abandon his complaint and switch to a second, much weaker attack. I really hope the women voters punish him and his party for it, but maybe they won’t. It really does smack of a pre-determined decision to deal to ‘the wrong sort of feminists’. Maybe that’s not surprising. political parties on both the left and right have always had an uneasy relationship to their internal women’s groups, and at times antagonistic. Probably because those first and second wave feminists had an exceedingly strong and focussed grasp on their own political goals and objectives and went for it hard. Generalised misogyny runs deep regardless of political leanings in men. We had the infamous case in NZ of a Maori male politician describing his senior female colleagues (including the then Prime Minister) as “front bums” who had achieved their positions through preferential treatment. In his career after politics, as a radio personality, he described a group of young men targeting underage girls for sex (some allegedly unwilling) as ‘mischief’ and speculated that the girls were free and easy and were willing drinkers. You don’t have to dig very deep in any political party to find prominent men with similar attitudes, even if most of them aren’t stupid enough to say it in the media.
Ugggghhhhh.
True about everywhere and not having to dig deep.