Dude Seriously – Hypocrisy’s Not Funny

Comedian and alleged refugee advocate Corinne Grant wrote this in her column published in The Hoopla, 19 November 2013

We are a country of hypocrites and it’s time we owned up to it.

We are bigger bull-shitters than the government has ever been.

That’s why we vote for people on both sides of politics that persecute asylum seekers. If we genuinely cared about the welfare of these people, we’d care about them being beaten and shot in Sri Lanka as well.

Secondly, if Australia really was broke and ‘illegals’ were stealing the food from our mouths, we’d be stamping our feet and demanding the government did something about the tens of thousands of white, English-speaking backpackers who have overstayed their tourist visas and are working cash in hand jobs all over Australia. But we never make a peep about that.

We’re too busy applauding the savage act of denying the Rohingya mother of a sick newborn the ability to spend as much time with her baby as she can.

Third, if we honestly believed we are only torturing innocent people because it serves as a deterrent to others, we’d want to see some genuine proof that such a practice was working. We’d want to know that we’re letting women and men get raped in Australian-run camps; that we’re turning a blind eye to suicide attempts; that we’re sending a severely disabled four year old to live in a malaria-filled prison all because way back in northern Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, people would hear about it and decide to stay put.

We’d want to know that the suffering we are deliberately inflicting on helpless people was worth it. We’d want more than a few empty platitudes from whichever side is in power to satisfy us that all these wrongs were making a right, wouldn’t we?

Spare me.

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Spare me too Corinne.

I agree with every word you wrote a year ago, but dude, seriously, you can’t just talk the talk – you also have to walk the walk.

Otherwise you are nothing but a meek lamb in bold wolves clothes.

Here’s our twitter exchange.

Baa!

Seriously dude, hypocrisy’s not funny and rape, torture and abuse aren’t laughing matters.

WTF are you thinking?