{"id":48354,"date":"2021-06-19T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=48354"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T05:48:41","slug":"from-a-person-not-in-certain-positions-of-authority-in-some-educational-establishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=48354","title":{"rendered":"From a person not in certain positions of authority in some educational establishments"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update<\/strong> (June 25, 2021) : A Public Letter to Annamarie Jagose<\/a>, A group of concerned students from within the Gender and Cultural Studies Department, Honi Soit, June 25, 2021.]<\/p>\n

Dear All,<\/p>\n

A couple of years back, while I was in bed because I’m slack, a ‘United Patriots Front’<\/a> stunt was held at 3CR with a very smol crowd of nazis holding \u201cJews Will Not Replace Us\u201d and \u201cThe Great Replacement\u201d beliefs. I know this because I wrote about ’em for The Guardian<\/em> a week or two before<\/a> the stoopid and, scrolling through my social media feeds later that night, a handful of people mentioned the incident.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was a beautiful Melbourne morning, clear blue skies and bright. Following speeches, an imaginary drum, a tambourine and horns marked time as the group gained entry, 3CR later reporting<\/a> that they ‘filmed throughout the building without permission. In an effort to intimidate the station and its programmers, they then posted the video on their Facebook page.’ I admit it was a strange feeling when\u2014sitting in my shitty Melbourne rental, catching up on the day\u2014I realized that 3CR, even when empty, is an activatable ideological site. Not-so-strange to hear, for the umpteenth time, in a short video clip of the group walking around 3CR offices, my own name in an angwy rant by a man previously convicted of anti-Semitism<\/a> (and, in June 2021, one just recently released from prison after being convicted<\/a> following a further, Islamophobic stunt carried out in the wake of the Christchurch massacre<\/a>).<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to be much of a queer theory maven to understand wage theft<\/a>, but ‘the complexities of the interpellative moment that hails into being what it purports only to recognise’ is, I suppose, one way of saying ‘nazis gonna nazi’. I\u2019d heard, of course, previous<\/a> rallying cries against ‘Zaky Mallah’, whose cadences were maintained in the more recent switch to ‘Critical Race Theory’<\/a>, so I didn\u2019t take personally my own name being set down to a familiar marching-beat rhythm: ‘Andy, get out. We know what you\u2019re all about.’ But while taking up the clear-eyed, all-knowing, hermeneutically suspicious position of the nazi thug who sees through the spin to the real core of (((managerial corruption)))), this chant also made an insinuatingly racialised recourse to my broadcasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not the first person to note that, while the authority of the nazi thug is augmented by platforming him via<\/em> the ABC<\/a>, Channel 7<\/a>, or Sky News Australia<\/a>, the authority of media pundits is undermined by ignorance<\/a>. In January 2019, when Alan Sunderland was attempting to comment on a rally organised by Fraser ‘Final Solution’ Anning in St Kilda<\/a>, for example, it was notable that he wrote: ‘Personally, I wouldn\u2019t call them Nazis. That implies a formality and consistency of belief that is not warranted by the facts. I\u2019d call them people making nazi salutes<\/a>. Accuracy matters.’<\/p>\n

Or perhaps in my case, some uncertainty hangs over my surname\u2014the relative exoticism of which causes some to hark back to the semi-legendary Melbourne anarchist John William ‘Chummy’ Fleming<\/a> (1863–1950), described as having been a ‘gentle man, affectionately regarded by later generations, [who] looked forward to a millenium in which happiness and brotherly love would prevail’ and who, for ‘his part in the growing militancy of the unemployed … was beaten up by paid thugs and isolated from mainstream politics’. Hard to shout convincingly through a megaphone when you’re bruised and bloodied. (For the record, the emphasis remains on class struggle.)<\/p>\n

But either way, wage theft is bAd, mmmkay<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Andy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update (June 25, 2021) : A Public Letter to Annamarie Jagose, A group of concerned students from within the Gender and Cultural Studies Department, Honi Soit, June 25, 2021.] Dear All, A couple of years back, while I was in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,29,16,14,9,17,893,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-anti-fascism","category-broken-windows","category-media","category-sex-sexuality","category-state","category-student-movement","category-thats-capitalism","category-war-on-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-czU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48354"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48421,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48354\/revisions\/48421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}