Satire is having a hard time keeping ahead of reality, these days. Within scant hours of One Nation MP Mark Latham putting up a satirical Facebook post asking why Paul’s “Smarter White” Milk hadn’t been cancelled, professional whinger Dr Stephen Hagan announced his new bitch’n’moan campaign.
You guessed it…
An indigenous rights activist who succeeded in having the Coon cheese brand scrapped will now campaign for Pauls to rename its ‘Smarter White’ milk.
This whining pest calls himself a “social justice consultant”. Which apparently means spending every waking hour looking for something new to be “offended” about.
‘Aboriginal people are saying that there’s an inference that it’s for smart, white people, not for smart, black people,’ Dr Hagan told Daily Mail Australia.
‘There’s a lot of Aboriginal people who take offence, who don’t drink that milk because of the inference that it’s ‘smarter white’.’
Name them, then. Margaret Thatcher famously skewered journalist George Negus for using the “people say” cop-out. She challenged him to name these “people”. Of course he couldn’t, because the reality is that these imaginary “people say” are nothing more than a false mouthpiece for an individual’s own shoddy opinion.
And, of course, he’s a soy-boy.
The soy milk drinker said lots of Aboriginal people had raised the matter with him.
‘I recall having conversations with people who don’t buy that because of the connotation ‘white people are smart’,’ he said.
‘A lot of people have raised it with me.’
Again, name them. Or just admit that it’s your opinion only.
At least one Aboriginal person is “saying” that Hagan is full of something else that cattle are notorious for producing in copious amounts.
Indigenous Alice Springs town councillor Jacinta Price described the call to rename Smarter White milk as ‘utter nonsense’.
‘I don’t know a single Indigenous Australian who is offended at all by milk being called ‘Smarter White’,’ she told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Indigenous Australian have far greater issues to be concerned with than the name of a brand of cheese named after its founder or what’s written on a carton of milk.’
Ms Price, who ran as a Country Liberal Party candidate at last year’s federal election, said affluent activists ‘whose lives are easy’ were inventing issues to feel like victims instead of addressing family violence and sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities.
‘I’d advise anyone who chooses to be offended by such a ridiculous proposition to assess their priorities,’ she said.
‘The victim mentality is unhealthy and completely unhelpful in attempting to address the real issues.’
As for Mark Latham, clearly not learning from his earlier effort at satire, he is daring the offenderati to go even further.
New South Wales One Nation leader Mark Latham described the campaign as idiotic and pondered as to whether cows would have to be killed for producing white milk.
‘Kill all the cows for producing white milk? When he invents black milk he’ll be smarter too.’
Yet more “people say” are going on the record saying that they think Hagan is ridiculous.
Peter Russell-Clarke, a former ABC-TV chef who fronted Coon commercials during the early 1990s, last month slammed Saputo’s decision to kill off the cheese name that debuted in 1935 under Kraft and the Fred Walker food company.
‘I think it’s ridiculous,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
‘Are we going to change the name of the raccoon, do you think?
‘Should we cut off the beaks of cockatoos to make sure the black beaks aren’t offensive to the white of the cockatoo?’
Russell-Clarke said Coon’s owners should be more concerned about maintaining the quality of their cheese than ditching an 85-year-old name to ‘suit the whim of the time’.
And Aboriginal activists should be more concerned about addressing the appalling levels of violence and child abuse in their communities rather than fussing over a non-offensive brand of milk.
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