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I wish that was all that it was, a lot of those marches were pretty heavily coopted by some incredibly racist people though and they're pretty tarnished as a result. The neo Nazis showing up in force sorta drove that point home.
I think that our immigration rate is too high, but those protests in particular didn't really contain themselves to just that issue.
The “neo Nazis” were told to fuck off in most of the marches, actually. No one wanted them there. I believe it was only the Sydney one that let one of them speak, and the organisers were rightly derided for doing so.
Just because some bad people try to co-opt something it doesn’t mean that they were bad people protests. The overwhelming majority of people there were there for the stated reasons, none of which were racist or “neo nazi”.
That’s not how it works when the march isn’t for Nazis and wasn’t about Nazi policies. If Nazis tag along and try to co-opt it then unless they’re breaking any laws there’s nothing you can do other then ask them to leave.
Btw how many Nazis does it take jumping into a march that isn’t about them and their policies before everyone magically turns into a Nazi? 1? 5? Is it a fixed number or a percentage? What other terrible groups does this apply to? Hamas supporters? Pedos?