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Netflix’s decision to remove several of Chris Lilley’s sitcoms from their catalogue is reportedly the last straw for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, after a scary week of watching unruly blacks destroy statues dedicated to historical figures of white supremacy.
Dutton says he’s had to draw the line, after learning that he was no longer able to watch Chris Lilley dress up as women and teenagers every single night.
“Removing that sort of content from online or from our television sets, I just don’t think it makes any sense,” he said.
But it’s not just the fact that blackface is no longer considered appropriate that has the Home Affairs minister worried, but also the protestors tearing down of statues of slave masters and vicious colonials.
Dutton says Australians won’t embrace “ripping pages out of history books” – especially the pages that have been carefully written so to avoid all of the genocide and slavery that the Prime Minister is now claiming never existed.
However, it seems his biggest concern is not related to the terrifying prospect of oppressed people being given license to reform Australia’s revisionist history books – but more so, the precedent it sets.
Dutton says if Australia stops worshipping British colonisers and other controversial figures of unbridled white supremacy – then where does that leave his legacy?
“I’ve heard whispers that a couple of Liberal Party branch members from the Dickson electorate were preparing to unveil a statue of me at Strathpine Shopping centre”
“Which could easily become a target. Simply because of how historians like to view history”
“This new culture of toppling statues is a slippery slope”
“I mean if the Captain Cook statue gets put in a museum simply because some people view settlement as invasion, what does that mean for something who gleefully detained war-wear children on sweltering hot island prisons until they began drinking shampoo and cutting themselves”
“I think this new cancel culture could easily end up descending into a leftie hysteria where only scientists, war heroes and humanitarians are allowed to be remembered in bronze”
“I mean, if the statue of a Belgian slave master gets toppled, anyone can!”
