Why you cancelling him?
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Theory checks out. My lad is 6"6’ and serene almost to a fault 
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I guess even those that do heroic things can be stupid and like Trump.
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Hero of Bondi has already revealed himself to be the guy who’ll maximise his earning potential ahead of quietly honouring the dead and not indulging in the hero stuff. He did a very courageous thing, his actions since then, although hilarious because they included ripping off a right wing ‘news’ network while shopping his fame, have shown him to be a chancer. It’s all turning a bit gross, as these things tend to when the biggest story becomes the one about the bloke who lived and not the ones who didn’t.
I feel a bit sorry for the couple who died trying to disarm the gunman. They don’t seem to get mentioned yet they were equally as brave.
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Yep, it’s weird. Winners are grinners in Oz
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It’s OK to discriminate as long as you do it against the right (wrong?) people apparently:
Authors including Miles Franklin winners Michelle de Kretser and Melissa Lucashenko will boycott Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) to protest the cancellation of an event featuring Palestinian Australian author, lawyer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Other authors who have withdrawn from the festival include Peter Greste, Yanis Varoufakis, Evelyn Araluen, Amy McQuire, Clare Wright, Chelsea Watego, Bernadette Brennan and Amy Remeikis.
Stella and Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser is among almost a dozen writers to pull out of AWW in support of Randa Abdel-Fattah. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan)
Araluen described the decision of the board to cancel Abdel-Fattah’s appearance at the festival as a “devastating betrayal of the democratic politics that have historically defined this festival”.
“I refuse to participate in this spectacle of censorship.”
Robbie Arnott has also said he will withdraw from the festival unless Abdel-Fattah is reinstated, and independent think tank The Australia Institute has pulled its support for the event.
Abdel-Fattah was scheduled to talk about her new novel, Discipline, which is set during Ramadan and follows two characters from very different parts of the Muslim world.
The pain of seeing Gaza victims from afar
Randa Abdel-Fattah explores the experience of Palestinian Australians in Discipline, her first book for adults.
She was dropped by the Adelaide Festival Board, chaired by marketing executive Tracey Whiting. The board includes journalist Daniela Ritorto and Adelaide Airport managing director Brenton Cox, but no artists, following the departure of choreographer Stephen Page.
Adelaide Writers’ Week is part of Adelaide Festival, but is led by director Louise Adler.
In a statement, the board said it would “not be culturally sensitive to continue to program [Abdel-Fattah] at this unprecedented time so soon after Bondi”, referencing the Bondi Beach shooting, where 15 people were killed in December.
The board added it was currently reviewing the festival’s operations in light of the “current national community context” and the festival’s role in “promoting community cohesion”.
Yeah…Community Cohesion…just not all of the community!!!
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Yeah I was waiting for the mob to turn on him after saying that! And with that the greenie delivers..
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I agree. It’s bc Ahmed is still alive I suppose. Otherwise they’d get the sane treatment deservedly.
That is insanely ridiculous. And in fact the very reason it should go ahead.
Does everyone always want to keep treating Israelis and Palestinians as Water and Oil?
They both love a good Hummus.
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I have a similar tale from last year which…I can’t tell, because it paints some people in such a shockingly poor light that the mere stating of the facts of the matter would be taken as bias on my part.
EVERYBODY loves good Hummus
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They’re immediately triggered.
Ahmed’s days in the headlines are done.
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In a way I wish he didn’t say that about Trump. He deserves forever love and every benefit he gets.
It was unwise.
Admirable but unwise in the current climate. You just can’t have an alternative opinion like that these days and not expect significant backlash from crazies.
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Yep, agree. He’s a hero and a legend and that’s that.
Nah, if he’s coming out and saying pro-trump stuff with his profile and what’s he’s done, he could make a fortune. Just need to get the right marketing people behind him, if that is what he wants.
He has an agent getting him all the dollar gigs. Apparently finding shameless exploitation of horrific circumstances abhorrent is being ‘triggered’ by those folks who have proven to be the biggest victim crying snowflakes on the planet. Ahmed is as cancelled as Ronald McDonald, good luck to him. It’s gross though, anyone with a soul knows that.