The Australian Minister for Defence, Stephen Smith, recently castigated several members of the ADF for homophobic slurs against serving personnel and civilian staff on departmental social-networking sites.
Note that he did not take them to task for being homophobic or sexist — he took them to task for “misusing social-networking sites in a manner liable to bring the Department [of Defence] into disrepute.”
So, Aussie military boys and girls, you can be as homophobic as you like, you can rape ‘lezzos’ (or any of your female colleagues really) to “put ‘em in their place,” you can bash ‘poofters’ ‘cos they’re not ‘real men’ (http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/06/the-dark-side-of-mateship-in-australian-military-ranks/) — just don’t go putting hate-speech up on websites where it could get us, your bosses, sued.
Remember, boys and girls, if you can’t be good, be careful. Above all, don’t leave any evidence — when you do do the sexual assault or even just the hate-speech thing, you can rest assured that your conduct will be whitewashed, because we, your bosses, will be the ones running any inquiry and we don’t want the departmental budget crippled by compensation payouts either.
That’s right folks. It’s never about rights, dignity or even safety — like all issues in capitalist society, it’s all about money.
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