It was only a matter of time, I suppose.
The Murdoch-transmitted bigoted book-banning virus has landed in the Sydney suburbs.
I'm pretty sure the local council doesn't actually have the power to ban books so it's just a bit of performative bigotry, but I'm 100% sure that councillor Steve Christou is about to have 15 more minutes of fame in the Murdoch press and on their misleadingly named 'Sky "News"' channel. That seems to be his grift. 🙄
It seems that councillor Christou is also fine with racism - or at least he was before he lost his job as mayor and began his current grandstanding campaign to try to get the job back:
If I were the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, his desperation might raise a few red flags...
Of course he hasn't read the book. These book-burning fascistic types never actually read the book, do they? It's all about being as performatively bigoted as possible.
Nor do the 'constituents' they claim to be burning the books on behalf of ever materialise IRL. When asked by the journalists, he could only lie, “I’ve received more than five complaints”.
Shame on the Labor Party councillor for voting for the ban too. They need to kick his arse out ASAP.
I mean, the main book-burner's even wearing an actual black shirt in his official photo 🙄
@DyDave What is the significance of a black shirt? Almost all my shirts are black.
His behaviour suggests that he's openly trying to signal to the fascistic types that he's with them, and those guys love their Easter Egg-type symbols, so the back shirt strikes me thus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts
Note: he's also conspicuously wearing an Australian flag lapel pin which is not a common thing here, and these guys are known to do it. He's all symbols, this guy...