Marcia Langton’s comments about criticism of the Voice to Parliament have been likened to Hillary Clinton’s description of Trump supporters as “deplorables”, a description that arguably cost her the 2016 election.
that “every time the No cases raise their arguments, if you start pulling it apart you get down to base racism… or sheer stupidity”.
Sky News host Paul Murray has equated comments from Voice architect Marica Langton to Hillary Clinton's"basket of deplorables" comment during the 2016 Presidential election. Picture: Sky News Australia. The Sky News host also likened Langton’s attack on the No campaign to a comment then-shadow treasurer Chris Bowen made during the 2019 election
Yes campaigner Marcia Langton told a Bunbury forum that criticism of the Voice was"based in racism". Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman The Sky News host singled out Professor Langton’s comments that “the majority of the ex-judiciary” had told Australians that the Voice proposal was “safe, sound, robust, and also practical”.
According to Murray, Australians “do not like when the chief protagonists in a political conversation either becomes so personal about the people whom disagree with them or so dismissive of anyone who disagrees with them.”Video footage of Professor Langton’s comments was aired on Sky News Australia on Tuesday night by Sharri Markson, leading to the Labor MP who uploaded the footage to Facebook to quickly take down his post.
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