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Some of the very same people that rallied to attack Carlton's theme song because of it's black face origins, seem absent and silent on Magda's past simply because it doesn't seem to suit the current agenda.

Let's not even discuss the Newman incident, which as I recall was also part of a comedy sketch.

Fat white wealthy lesbian leftist angel of mercy, versus the ageing privileged wealthy white middle aged man in lycra demon racist!

I'm not sure I could find a better or more definitive examples of both "hypocrisy" and "arbitrary" in a such acts, and I'm not sure you'll find a better example of the plasticity of reporting in a post-truth world! It's so plastic some have bent over backwards far enough to kiss their own clacker.

Yet they expect, actually they demand, to be taken seriously! :o

I'll never understand how people can maintain face while adjusting rules of judgement dependant on the target.

Yes Stephen Hagan has been remarkably silent about Magda’s blackface.  He was the only person promoting the spurious racist origins of our club song and he clammed up when his tenuous argument was ridiculed by by one and all.

Of course, Dr Hagan may have had something to say when Magda’s blackface was an issue three years ago.  I don’t really recall.  Magda’s honesty and ownership of her wrongdoing at that time meant that the issue died fairly quickly. 

That’s in stark contrast to Sam Newman who still maintains that he did nothing wrong and is still defended by his accomplice, Eddie McGuire. 

I’m not sure that Newman’s blackface skit could be called comedy.  He was attempting to deride Nicky Winmar for his anti-racist activism and it wasn’t humorous at all. Not that humour excuses racist stereotyping and parodying, whether it’s done by Magda, Newman, Alice Kunek or Justin Trudeau.