argumate:

But Mr Katter, who has himself courted controversy with derogatory remarks about homosexuality, defended Senator Anning - including his call for a “final solution to the immigration problem”.

Mr Katter claimed his senator had “absolutely no idea” the term was used in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler to describe the genocide of the Jewish people in Europe.

“He didn’t get to a university to know the significance of all these words,” Mr Katter said. “He’s smart, but he hasn’t read all the history books. He doesn’t know what any of this means. And nor will he spend any time finding out.

“I’m sick of you lily pad lefties coming at us on some absolutely ridiculous technicality that has nothing to do with the issues.”

“he doesn’t know what any of this means” is quite a thing to say about someone that you’re defending.

I mean, “every Anglophone public figure is expected to know and demonstrate fidelity to a Cold War civil liturgy that as we grow more distant is reduced to ‘the Holocaust in negative’” is very much the thing up for contention right now