Moira Deeming kicked out of her political party because of Wikipedia lies
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 9:50 am
I noticed one thing that happened recently, where I live here in Australia, where a politician by the name of Moira Deeming lost her position in the Liberal Party (one of Australia's two major parties) because Wikipedia wrote lies about her.
This was pretty shocking to me, but Wikipedia didn't care, and to date haven't bothered to fix up their mistakes, and continue to lie about her, which has led to her expulsion from her own political party, as well as lawsuits, all of which was essentially Wikipedia's fault.
Details:
Moira Deeming was elected to the Legislative Council, the upper house of the state of Victoria, Australia (the state equivalent of the Senate) in December 2022 under the banner of being pro-woman and anti-trans. Essentially, she is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, or TERF. She is also a Maori (a Native New Zealander), and is black.
In her first speech in March 2023 she said that she wanted to remove anti-woman laws that let trans women still with d*cks into women's toilets.
She was quite openly anti-trans from the outset, and that was her platform. That was why she was voted in. That was what she was all about. She was a feminist who didn't like trans women infringing on her space.
In April 2023, soon after giving her first speech to great applause, she went to a rally called "Let Women Speak" in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the steps of Victoria's Parliament House. This was arranged by a British TERF called Posie Parker. They self-described it as a women's rights rally.
Some trans rights activists (TRAs) decided that it was secretly an anti-trans rally and was discriminatory. They put in a complaint to the human rights commission, who assessed it and said that it wasn't. It wasn't an anti-trans rally at all, they proved, because it didn't say that people didn't have the right to be trans, only that they should not infringe on women's rights in their activities. That is not anti-trans. While some of the people involved might have been anti-trans, most of them were not.
A group of neo-Nazis appeared at some point towards the end of the protest, and made some Nazi salutes. Amongst them was the son of a prominent police officer, who was in attendance. They claimed to have been invited there by the organisers of the protest.
The neo-Nazis unleashed a banner which said "Kill Paedo Freaks".
The organisers of the protest were horrified, as were the TRAs (the "counter protest"), each of whom blamed the other for the Nazis being in attendance. The Nazis, for their part, claimed to be there on invitation from Posie Parker herself.
Wikipedia has claimed that Posie Parker is a Nazi. Posie Parker has been photographed with Nazis. But she said that she didn't know that they were Nazis. Wikipedia has made no such distinction.
Indeed, Wikipedia has been full of trying to accuse all of these TERFs who are involved in women's rights of being Nazis.
So, following the protest, the Victorian premier, and leader of the Labor Party, Daniel Andrews, decried the act and called for Moira Deeming to be removed. He said that even if they hadn't invited the Nazis in, that TERFs are bad and he demanded for her to be removed from the Liberal Party.
The leader of the Liberal Party of Victoria, John Pesutto, then agreed, and removed her.
I mean, WTF?
The basis of John Pesutto's decision was on Wikipedia's lies about Posie Parker and other people who were at the protest which falsely called them Nazis.
None of them were Nazis.
There was some opposition within the Victorian Liberal Party about this, as the Liberal Party as a whole had a pro-TERF anti-TRA policy, so what Moira Deeming was doing was fine. But the Nazis made it not fine.
So initially she was suspended for 9 months.
But then John Pesutto broke his promises surrounding the suspension, so Moira Deeming threatened to sue him for defamation if he didn't stop calling her a Nazi.
He refused, but claimed he had never called her a Nazi (even though he had).
He then got her banned for making a legal threat!
Isn't that a stupid Wikipedia thing to do? Officially I was banned for making a legal threat that I didn't actually make, and was actually made against me. So now Moira Deeming, in real life, was banned for making a legal threat.
So Moira Deeming is now an independent, and this effectively means that she will probably only see out one term and then that will probably be the end of her political career. A month after her maiden speech and 5 months into her 4-year term, she is banned for life and will probably never do anything again, all because Wikipedia lied about her.
The federal Liberal women's group denounced her ban and demanded her to come back but John Pesutto refuses to do it. He has been widely criticised for it, but he refuses to do it. After all, Wikipedia are always telling the truth, right? Right?
Wikipedia are largely responsible for this, because they lied about her, and their lies led to this major problem for her, and broadly for the Australian Liberal Party, who, in spite of being one of only two major political parties in Australia, don't hold power in any state for the first time in history, and are in danger of being removed as a political party.
If you think that Wikipedia don't meddle in politics, this is a big one.
This was pretty shocking to me, but Wikipedia didn't care, and to date haven't bothered to fix up their mistakes, and continue to lie about her, which has led to her expulsion from her own political party, as well as lawsuits, all of which was essentially Wikipedia's fault.
Details:
Moira Deeming was elected to the Legislative Council, the upper house of the state of Victoria, Australia (the state equivalent of the Senate) in December 2022 under the banner of being pro-woman and anti-trans. Essentially, she is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, or TERF. She is also a Maori (a Native New Zealander), and is black.
In her first speech in March 2023 she said that she wanted to remove anti-woman laws that let trans women still with d*cks into women's toilets.
She was quite openly anti-trans from the outset, and that was her platform. That was why she was voted in. That was what she was all about. She was a feminist who didn't like trans women infringing on her space.
In April 2023, soon after giving her first speech to great applause, she went to a rally called "Let Women Speak" in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the steps of Victoria's Parliament House. This was arranged by a British TERF called Posie Parker. They self-described it as a women's rights rally.
Some trans rights activists (TRAs) decided that it was secretly an anti-trans rally and was discriminatory. They put in a complaint to the human rights commission, who assessed it and said that it wasn't. It wasn't an anti-trans rally at all, they proved, because it didn't say that people didn't have the right to be trans, only that they should not infringe on women's rights in their activities. That is not anti-trans. While some of the people involved might have been anti-trans, most of them were not.
A group of neo-Nazis appeared at some point towards the end of the protest, and made some Nazi salutes. Amongst them was the son of a prominent police officer, who was in attendance. They claimed to have been invited there by the organisers of the protest.
The neo-Nazis unleashed a banner which said "Kill Paedo Freaks".
The organisers of the protest were horrified, as were the TRAs (the "counter protest"), each of whom blamed the other for the Nazis being in attendance. The Nazis, for their part, claimed to be there on invitation from Posie Parker herself.
Wikipedia has claimed that Posie Parker is a Nazi. Posie Parker has been photographed with Nazis. But she said that she didn't know that they were Nazis. Wikipedia has made no such distinction.
Indeed, Wikipedia has been full of trying to accuse all of these TERFs who are involved in women's rights of being Nazis.
So, following the protest, the Victorian premier, and leader of the Labor Party, Daniel Andrews, decried the act and called for Moira Deeming to be removed. He said that even if they hadn't invited the Nazis in, that TERFs are bad and he demanded for her to be removed from the Liberal Party.
The leader of the Liberal Party of Victoria, John Pesutto, then agreed, and removed her.
I mean, WTF?
The basis of John Pesutto's decision was on Wikipedia's lies about Posie Parker and other people who were at the protest which falsely called them Nazis.
None of them were Nazis.
There was some opposition within the Victorian Liberal Party about this, as the Liberal Party as a whole had a pro-TERF anti-TRA policy, so what Moira Deeming was doing was fine. But the Nazis made it not fine.
So initially she was suspended for 9 months.
But then John Pesutto broke his promises surrounding the suspension, so Moira Deeming threatened to sue him for defamation if he didn't stop calling her a Nazi.
He refused, but claimed he had never called her a Nazi (even though he had).
He then got her banned for making a legal threat!
Isn't that a stupid Wikipedia thing to do? Officially I was banned for making a legal threat that I didn't actually make, and was actually made against me. So now Moira Deeming, in real life, was banned for making a legal threat.
So Moira Deeming is now an independent, and this effectively means that she will probably only see out one term and then that will probably be the end of her political career. A month after her maiden speech and 5 months into her 4-year term, she is banned for life and will probably never do anything again, all because Wikipedia lied about her.
The federal Liberal women's group denounced her ban and demanded her to come back but John Pesutto refuses to do it. He has been widely criticised for it, but he refuses to do it. After all, Wikipedia are always telling the truth, right? Right?
Wikipedia are largely responsible for this, because they lied about her, and their lies led to this major problem for her, and broadly for the Australian Liberal Party, who, in spite of being one of only two major political parties in Australia, don't hold power in any state for the first time in history, and are in danger of being removed as a political party.
If you think that Wikipedia don't meddle in politics, this is a big one.