As the antifascist analyst Andy Fleming posted on X on 6 March, the first time Western Australia’s new racial vilification laws were applied in 2006 was in the case of an Indigenous teenager who called a woman a “white slut”. As reported in The Australian at the time, the law had come into effect in response to the Australian Nationalist Movement’s racist graffiti attacks on Perth’s main synagogue and on businesses owned by Asians.
Since that time, the charge of “anti-white” racism has become ever more prevalent as hard-fought battles in the fight against racial discrimination and for greater racial literacy are being lost in the wider “war on woke”.
