Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II there were many voices in the media who suddenly became staunch advocates of free speech, writes Jack Houghton.
It started, most brazenly, with Greens politicians to liken our late Queen as a racist, or at the very least, responsibly for racism in general.
“It is definitely political speech and therefore it should be protect and I think it is absolutely shameful that they have come down on her like this. “What she was doing was expressing her view through social media, and there is absolutely no duty on a person not respect an individual’s role, and I think she was talking about an institutional role here rather than the actual person which is a fundamental distinction I think we have to make.
Patricia Karvelas penned an opinion piece complaining that people criticised an Indigenous twitter account which described the Queen as an architect of colonialism, very soon after her death. Karvelas disliked that O’ Sullivan has been rightly criticised for her commentary and formed this argument.
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