I stumbled across a website called “Tolerance is our demise” today, courtesy of:
http://mike-stuchbery.com/2011/09/01/1332/
It perplexed me a little bit, I initially thought that it was a serious, racist, bigoted, rabid right wing rant about the usual topics, you know, multiculturalism, homosexuals, the Greens… but the more I scrolled through the poorly cobbled together diatribe, I began to realise that it was really a very clever troll.
The first paragraph gave me the hint:
Thank you for visiting our new Internet Website. We want to give you the opportunity to contact us to tell us about your concerns, views and opinions as to the way that our country is heading.
“new Internet Website” – I didn’t know that there was any other kind. That phrase kind of reminded me of something that Pauline Hanson would have said, something for which Mike Carlton often parodied her for.
We are hoping to encourage all average hard working Australians to adopt our catch phrase
“Tolerance is our Demise”™
After reading this (and searching ATMOSS to see if there was a trademark for that “slogan”), it really began to twig. There is no trademark, pretending that there was one is another clever part of the troll.
tolerance to “the not so silent minority” who shout out their opinions very loudly and lobby the government to have their minority opinions implemented even though they are not the opinions or wishes of the majority of hard working Australians. But most of all, it’s about tolerance to governments that treat their own people with the greatest of contempt by giving hand-outs to people who arrive here illegally while treating their own people who have worked and paid taxes, who were either born and raised here or came here legally and worked for a better life, as second class citizens!
Now, that paragraph – if you can call it that – is classic BoltJones doublespeak, and so cleverly crafted that you would be forgiven for thinking that these people were actually right wing nutcases instead of some clever uni students parodying the far right extremists.
We believe that those few people who stand on street corners and shout out their views have not helped to create the Australia that most of us have worked hard for. In many instances they are students who have never worked and paid taxes or have mortgages to pay; they are lawyers and a few journalists with self-interest; they are welfare recipients who have not any intention of ever working (and thus contributing through taxation) with a lot to lose. The average hard working Australian is out working and paying taxes to support these minority groups and therefore hasn’t got time to go out to stand on street corners to protest.
The penny drops here – the polarising comments, designed to draw media attention and highlight the hypocrisy of the far right.
Amusingly, there were people with the stickers advertised on these guys website, posted on placards, advertising outside the electoral office of Anthony Albanese he other day

The creators of this website have cleverly parodied those people by claiming that only people for whom we should have no tolerance can afford to take the time off to protest, as your average, hard working Aussie doesn’t have the time to do this.
Brilliant!
We are sick and tired of ordinary Australians who love their country being labelled “red-necks, racists and bigots” for speaking the truth, their only agenda being to keep Australia a great place for future generations. Whilst we are in favour of inviting people from other countries to come to live in our great country, we believe that we should be able to decide who we invite.
A very clever paraphrasing of the famous “We will decide who comes to this country” speech by the darling of the right, John Winston Howard.
It is a clever parody in many ways, particularly seeing as these cunning lefties who have designed this “hate site” know that the lefties that they seek to bait to rail against the extreme right will pick up on the “inviting people from other countries to… our great country” and indulge in a diatribe of their own about the original inhabitants of Australia.
It doesn’t matter where you were born and it doesn’t matter what colour your skin is. If you want to come to this great country and contribute and be a good Australian and live our way of life that our forefathers fought and died for, and not try to change our ideals, principles, standards, morals and ethics which all contribute to our life-style, then please come. You are very welcome! But please don’t bring with you any of the “rubbish” that caused you to want to leave your country of origin. Leave it behind and come to this great country of Australia for a better life. After all, isn’t that what you want to come here for – a better life?
Another very clever troll,
Imagine how the extreme leftists will react when they read the bit about the “rubbish” being left behind. They will moan on and on about small pox, influenza, alcohol and petrol…
They will talk about the destruction of “sacred sites”, the ruining of dreamtime myths, the forcing of Christianity on the indigenous people, the complete disregard for the culture of the people who had lived here for 40,000+ years or so…
This is quite brilliant really.
I think that this website is an extremely clever marketing ploy from the desperate powerbrokers of the ALP.
It is far too accurate a representation of the extreme right to be anything other than a parody.
The Greens do a brilliant job of parodying the extreme left (and actually acting it out), whereas Abbott and co have to exercise a modicum of self restraint.
Old Barnaby, he never holds back, but I strongly suspect that that some troublesome mischief makers on the left are responsible for this website, it is far too hypocritical and amusing to be anything else than a cleverly disguised troll that hopes to boost the flagging support for a flailing ALP.
The only place that they buggered up and gave a hint that they might actually be real right wing extremists was in the mailto link used to contact them – “tolerance” was misspelt as “tolerence” – though this could be another part of the elaborate troll.
Well done to the mischief makers who built this site – the extreme right couldn’t have done a better job of highlighting the dangers of neo conservatism.