\n\nBut Mr Katter, who has himself courted controversy with derogatory \nremarks about homosexuality, defended Senator Anning - including his \ncall for a \u201cfinal solution to the immigration problem\u201d.
Mr Katter \nclaimed his senator had \u201cabsolutely no idea\u201d the term was used in Nazi \nGermany under Adolf Hitler to describe the genocide of the Jewish people\n in Europe.
\u201cHe didn\u2019t get to a university to know the significance of all these \nwords,\u201d Mr Katter said. \u201cHe\u2019s smart, but he hasn\u2019t read all the history \nbooks. He doesn\u2019t know what any of this means. And nor will he spend any\n time finding out.
“I\u2019m sick of you lily pad lefties coming at us \non some absolutely ridiculous technicality that has nothing to do with \nthe issues.\u201d
\u201che doesn\u2019t know what any of this means\u201d is quite a thing to say about someone that you\u2019re defending.
I mean, \u201cevery 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 \u2018the Holocaust in negative\u2019\u201d is very much the thing up for contention right now
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