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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Margaret Simons

Media defensiveness and outright denial have been on full display in response to anti-immigration protests

Protesters at the ‘March for Australia’ anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on Sunday.
Protesters at the ‘March for Australia’ anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on Sunday. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian

Perhaps it is inevitable that the two most persistent evils in human societies – racism and misogyny – can be at times difficult to define and pin down.

It’s like the elephant in the archetypal parable about the blind men who each touch one part of the beast and assume they know its nature.

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