I found this thread .As Larry Pickering has been and is unfortunately featurng very strongly in our Political and social media I would like to add to the thread.I realise the article is from last year.Some of Larry Pickerings artwork lead me to look into this
.In the article below it states that on his blog he writes that Aboriginals are the most primitive, under-developed race on earth ... it is not until we understand the extent of their innate primitiveness that we can ever hope to help". He states that scientists are lying about climate change and he declares similar skullduggery afoot in doctors' denials of the health-giving properties of tobacco.
I have heard people refer to him as an intelligent and educated man ...those claims along with the attitude of respect that some seem to feel he is worthy of is imo quite frightening...for those who feel that way about him and what he publishes.
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News Ltd's Double Standards On Anti-Semitism
By Jeff Sparrow
The Australian is all too ready to lambast the Greens or pro-Palestine activists as anti-Semites. What about Larry Pickering, who's been on their payroll, asks Jeff Sparrow
"A fresh wave of racial hatred against the Jewish community, including calls for a Hitler clone and ethnic cleansing, has been sparked by the anti-Israel boycott campaign of the Max Brenner chocolate shop chain."
That was John Ferguson in The Australian on 22 August. To put it charitably, he's twanging a decidedly long bow, because this "wave of racial hatred" consists entirely of several bigoted remarks posted under a YouTube clip. Under normal circumstances YouTube comments are scarcely breaking news, particularly so in this case given the video itself wasn't itself racist and the Max Brenner protesters had no ability to moderate it either.
http://newmatilda.com/2012/08/29/news-ltds-double-standards-anti-semitism
last 3 paragraphs from above
Peter Wertheim suggests that protesters needed to ask themselves why racists commented on their YouTube clips. But that's a question better directed to the conservative movement. There's no mystery about Pickering's politics. Why, then, are so many big names on the Right giving him oxygen, sending him traffic and otherwise helping him build his racist publication?
What does the Executive Council of Australian Jewry make of this? Is Peter Wertheim concerned that prominent pundits seem to have no problem palling around with a racist? If so, will he issue a statement to that effect?
The Australian, in particular, has devoted reams and reams of paper to denouncing the Greens for involvement with the BDS movement, even though no-one from the Greens ever talked about "vanity-driven, thieving Jews". Why, then, won't the Australian devote equal space to condemning the anti-Semite who has been on its payroll and whose work still features on its site?
