McCarthiest America 1950′s style is a ripe subject for ridicule. It’s perverse witchhunting in the name of freedom is highly laughable if not funny. But it’s unfunny and contradictory memory was lost on a lot of Australians when comedians and skit writers here starting parodying xenphobes in the eighties. They simiply didn’t get the joke when the term ‘Un-Australian’ was thrown around as a catchphrase only to be heard from an imbecile’s lips. Instead they adopted it. Like shock-jokes with a new whipping boy the perennially dumb now seem hell bent on whipping themselves into an onanistic frenzy trying to find a friend who cares.
Psst…. It was a joke. An it still is ! The only thing that is ‘unaustralian’ is giving a pigs arse about patriotism.
