“I am Bob Katter and I am a proud western chauvinist. And it is us who brought civilisation to the world and we won’t be apologising for it… Don’t get in our way…”
Katter’s pledge to the Proud Boy far-right white hate group, whom he denies knowing anything about and putting the act down to: “My irresponsible larrikinism often gets me into trouble…”
Western chauvinists are proud to declare the world
are proud to pronounce against what they don’t want to be,
they make civilisation a larrikin act bought and sold.
Watch out when the self-styled larrikin is unfurled
in front of Proud Boys beating the chests of the “free”,
Western chauvinists are proud to declare the world.
Trouble is a giggle when a larrikin shouts over a canefield,
irresponsible affection an affectation of soapbox glee —
to make civilisation a larrikin act bought and sold.
Whiteness is an acclaimed commodity between foothold
& freehold, all that is loved is valued as the nation’s identity,
Western chauvinists are proud to declare the world.
All this irreverence, all this branching out from the battlefield
of polling booth, all this denting of what one is or won’t be,
they make civilisation a larrikin act bought and sold.
Such “boisterousness” is a transfusion of that “crimson thread”,
such reworking those rules of bias (by jingo!) to entrench their gameplay,
Western chauvinists are proud to declare the world
as they make ‘civilisation’ a larrikin act bought and sold.
OH! Thank dog you are talking about poetery.
For a while there I thought you were on about Killing Eve, and Villanelle there.
I’m in love with her, but could never be with that whatever is in the picture at the head of the article.
“It is us who brought civilisation to the world…” Who’s “us?” Presumabably they ignore all previous civilisations and refer to Western civilisation which, as Gandhi reportedly said “would be a good idea.” In that case, “us” apparently means people some hundreds of years ago who coincidentally had the same colour skin as these yobbos, who spoke not the same but a related language and who learned much of what they knew through their contacts with the Arabs, the Persians, the Indians and the Chinese.
He probably would have said “it was WE who brought …” if he understood grammar but, hey, it remains a wonder that he can string together a sentence, however banal, with the terrible pressure of that Mad Hat atop what passes for his head.
BTW, your knee jerk taqiyya is getting old, give it a rest.
There is only one species, however hued, but kultur counts.
37,665 challenged persons gave Katter their first preference primary vote. He achieved an increase in his vote, and in the Kennedy electorate there was a big swing to Clive Palmer’s far right outfit. Katters’s son in law the biggest arms importer in the nation. Katter an NRA fool. Palmer a wage thief. Speaks volumes about those that vote for them.
Is it something to do with sun or too tight hats restricting blood flow to their “brains”?