The Festival Of Dangerous Ideas describes itself as a festival that “brings leading thinkers and culture creators from around the world to the Sydney Opera House stages and online to discuss and debate the important ideas of our time“, which seems like an extremely generous way to describe whatever contribution Andrew Bolt could possibly make, given that they’ve decided to put him on the lineup.
Do you think you are welcoming any Aboriginal people by programming someone who has committed racial vilification? @IdeasattheHouse #FODI
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 5, 2016
What’s the point of having Aboriginal art on the Opera House during #Vivid when you open your doors to Andrew Bolt? @IdeasattheHouse #FODI
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 5, 2016
By giving platform to Bolt, youre legitimising his hate speech & closing your doors to those he vilifies. That is DANGEROUS @IdeasattheHouse
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 5, 2016
Don’t jump to hyperbole of “silencing”. When talking about a columnist, argument of silencing is redundant. @ImMylesMorgan @IdeasattheHouse
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 5, 2016
This is the basic logic of people who justify hate speech (which bolt was found guilty of) and black face. https://t.co/d1UnjQsFvs
— Nakkiah Lui (@nakkiahlui) July 5, 2016
BOLT: my dangerous idea is that racism is … good?
[golf clap]— Colley (@JamColley) July 5, 2016
Really glad the white people who run FODI get off on Andrew Bolt targeting minority races to get people “excited”.
— Osman Faruqi (@oz_f) July 5, 2016
Festival Of Dangerous Ideas:
Will Middle-Class White People Pay For The Novelty Of Seeing Racism Up Close?— Colley (@JamColley) July 5, 2016
I hope Henry Rollins’ talk at FODI is just him head-butting Andrew Bolt and Neil Strauss
— chris (@garflyf) July 5, 2016
Bolt might be ‘silenced’ if you took away his newspaper column and blog. Even then, he’d be no more ‘silenced’ than the rest of us. #FODI
— Unpopular Mechanical (@Hippopeteamus) July 5, 2016