Letter

In response to Confected outrage

Graffiti is a hate crime too

Jerry Cartwright thinks pro-terrorist graffiti is a trivial matter. Imagine if, after the Bali bombings, similar messages supporting those who killed many Australians were sprayed around our cities?

Perhaps Cartwright would find it confected outrage if messages supporting domestic violence and killing of women were painted near his home, or support for child sexual abuse. Would that elicit “confected outrage” too?

Here’s a truth bomb – it’s only people who will never experience antisemitism, Islamophobia or racism who dismiss vilification as trivial.

— Simon Tatz from Melbourne