Bruce Pascoe, Tribal Elder of the Seagull Mob

I have been astonished at the reaction of the Twitter mob to the latest development in the Bruce Pascoe Affair.  Astonished but not surprised, if you can appreciate the subtlety of this apparent paradox.  I am astonished that so many people, many not obviously cretins (pathologically at least), can so readily and deliberately misinterpret the clear-cut issues underlying the referral of Bruce Pascoe’s aboriginality to the AFP. But I am not surprised because they have form in this respect on many other issues, from climate change to free speech and every other issue on which remaining in good standing with the mob trumps reasoned argument, facts and truth.

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I have pored through the Twitter record to see if there is any support for Josephine Cashman’s  (not Peter Dutton’s) initiative and could find just one instance – Mark Latham.

Here’s a sample of the other side.

Jonathan Green:
Coloured clothing patches will be issued shortly…