Cory Bernardi Tried To Quote Voltaire, Quoted A Neo-Nazi Pedo Instead

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November 27, 2015

Shortly before beginning to write this article, this is a very true and real conversation that happened between two PEDESTRIAN.TV writers:

Alex: “Wonder what Cory Bernardi’s doing atm.”

Chloe: “Yeah we haven’t heard of him doing anything fucken stupid recently.”

Alex: “Weird.”

Chloe: “Yeah, super weird.”

*2 minutes later*

Chloe: “Oh don’t worry, today he’s tweeted a quote thinking it was Voltaire but it’s actually by a Neo-Nazi with child porn charges.”

Alex: “Oh right, of course.”

That’s right, reader! Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi posted a tweet a few days ago, which he thought was from revolutionary French philosopher Voltaire.

Unfortunately, the quote actually happened to be from a leader of a white supremacy group! A bloke called Kevin Alfred Strom, who – on top of all the violent racism – has also been up on child porn charges! So, just an all-round top bloke, clearly.

Here he is! Say hi to white supremacist paedophile Kevin:

Now, we’re paraphrasing here. Kev reckons he is absolutely, tooootally not a white supremacist. But, he does have this quote (from himself) up the top of his ‘About’ page of his terrifying website:

“Race-formation and separation are essential processes of evolution, which could not exist without them.” – Kevin Alfred Strom

Yeeeeesh. Anyway, Cory Bernardi totally thought that Strom’s quote belonged to a French philosopher, and so Twitter spent all of today misquoting Voltaire to make fun of him. Like, what the fuck else were we supposed to do?

@AdamSpenceAU @joshgnosis @harrypusspuss More #Voltaire gems from Cory Bernardi. pic.twitter.com/me1dyrnEjL

— QC (@ChristineEwing7) November 27, 2015

“Je suis Cory.”
#Voltaire

— ( • )JuliaBulia( • ) (@JuliaEmBee) November 27, 2015

Classic Voltaire. Ping @corybernardi pic.twitter.com/ETPxSY0Csh

— michael hing (@hingers) November 27, 2015

If a tree falls in the forest does the Environment Minister hear it.

#Voltaire

— Order No.227 (@AnthonyCole68) November 27, 2015

“Donate to my Bernardi mocking Pozible campaign” – Voltaire https://t.co/Hgtbw8wXyQ pic.twitter.com/2sgTwetu1U

— Tim Watts (@TimWattsMP) November 27, 2015

“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best ??????” – Voltaire

— Elle Hunt (@mlle_elle) November 27, 2015

“Tell him he’s dreamin’” – #Voltaire

— Regan (@mrschal) November 27, 2015

Abbott loves anal #Voltaire

— Jeff Crisp (@crispy_49) November 27, 2015

Monorail! #Voltaire

— Shavenewok (@Shavenewok) November 27, 2015

“And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids” – #Voltaire

— James of Thrones (@jgwr) November 27, 2015

that thing the dude from the meeting tree said about chet faker last night – voltaire

— max u think (@maxuthink) November 27, 2015

“My name is Cory Bernardi, and I am a racist, homophobic nincompoop of the first order. And I smell funny.” – Voltaire. #auspol

— Lateralist76 (@Lateralist76) November 27, 2015