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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

From masterchef to master race eh

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

This shit though: "I look forward to studying all of the symbols that have ever existed and research them thoroughly before posting"

What a load of horseshit - it may as well say "oh, how can those picky (((critics))) expect me to know which symbols are Nazi emblems?!"

That symbol was a bit niche, but still quite recognisable... And then a fucking terrorist proudly displayed it before killing 51 people in a cowardly attack of Christchurch's Muslim community. There's really no excuse not to be aware of what it is now.

And "true history of Germany" indeed. Fucking dipshit.

He's married to New Zealander Nicky Watson too... I wonder if her brain is infested with the same worms now? She was always on the "ditzy" side, but in my experience was actually a nice and pretty genuine person.

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

The original caterpillar and butterfly cartoon was an innocuous one (the butterfly is a monarch with orange wings: just google “caterpillar butterfly meme”), so if he actually wanted to post a simple message about personal growth and change, he absolutely could have done so. He chose the version to which someone had added a MAGA cap and the Sonnenrad, symbols with very specific meanings. My only real question is the extent to which he understands what he’s doing and is just being disingenuous and smarmy with his disclaimers (they do come off as highly smarmy, particularly the little passive-aggressive dig about having to research all possible meanings of symbols as if it were an impossible expectation), and the extent to which he’s being used by much more cynical and self-aware neo-Nazis who encourage him to post this stuff, telling him it’s innocuous and anyone who criticises it is unreasonable.

Either way what a dickhead.

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Pete seems to be rapidly travelling through Abbie Richards' Cornucopia of Conspiracy https://twitter.com/abbieasr/status/1312512066071060480. It's more of a descent than an ascent.

He started at "Leaving Reality" (paleo diets are pseudo-science) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx0pOGVMntM out to "Science Denial" (his COVID/5G stuff) and now he's out past "The Antisemitic Point of No Return" (sonnenrads and holocaust denial).

Antisemitism and racism (i.e. Nazism) are the black hole of conspiracism where it's all connected and hateful. Once you're over that "event horizon", it's pretty hard to come back into the light since that involves owning the shame of what you've said and done.

For someone like Pete who craves celebrity, there's often too much invested to quit - it's akin to a narcissistic addiction at that point. And as David sadly notes, there is an audience for this stuff.

I'm reminded of my favorite line from Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago:

"Oooh,I'm a star, and the audience loves me... and I love them. And they love me for loving them and I love them for loving me. And we love each other. And that's because none of us got enough love in our childhood. And that's showbiz... kid."

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

Fuck. This reeks of the same sort of mock ignorance proclaimed by the Mercy Picture fuckwads. 'It's just a symbol. If you break it down it's just colours and shapes and nothing bad can come from those". No, just no.

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

I know very little about cooking, even less about cooking in Australia, but that ‘are we the baddies’ clip is from one of my favourite shows, so now I’m dying to know have you watched Peep Show? (The UK version of course not the horrible US spin off)

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

I feel that, before sharing something with really obvious symbols, you can just have a quick google search or a flick over the ADL's Hate Symbol database which would allow you to not post something racist accidentally, and if you did, deleting and apologising for not knowing would be the thing to do.

Since Pete clearly didn't do any of these things and in fact doubled down on the nazi stuff and then posted an incredibly passive aggressive "apology" post, I can only assume we'll see more and more overt nazi stuff from him.

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

I feel like Pete is somebody who hasn't heard the word "no" often enough. I'm glad he's hearing it now, at least a bit. It is a shame that he will use it to try and spin a story of martyrdom.

As always, thanks David for making our terrifying reality somewhat more fun and interesting!

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

I love the internet so much but I hate the internet so much.

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

I stupidly read the comments on his social media last and I still haven't come down from reading -that the people who are saying what he posted was shit are worse than Nazi ideas / no one is harmed from seeing a Nazi symbol / people upset about the symbol need to get off the hate train.

'Love is all there is! Love one another', yet supporting that.

Brain explodey! Coming to terms with the fact that people happy to ignore an attack but really can't stand a response back or working to protect from more attacks. Hurts the head and heart

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

The apology was a pathetic excuse of an apology and so disingenuous. I can't decide if it is cynical (these controversies and conspiracies drive traffic to his oils, resorts, books, products etc) or whether he believes he is a truth spreader/heeler or whether it is something else. What is sad is that I believe that in the COVID age one thing we could be talking about more is immunity and being healthy and how that can help you fight COVID..... and there is a place for healthy recipes and yummy food in doing this.

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

wonder where he got the neo-nazi version of the meme? A reverse google image search doesn't turn it up, but I guess the nazis hang out somewhere a bit more underground

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

Also had a laugh that someone APPROVING of the post said 'symbolism will be their downfall'.

For once qanon person was accidently right.

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Nov 17, 2020Liked by David Farrier

OMG he is revolting. I might be super dumb, but I'm confused by that meme... is he saying that Nazi's have transformed or that MAGA peeps should transform in to Nazi's? or that Nazi's weren't that bad in the first place? It's all pretty dark and hard to stay compassionate and understanding. Fascism is alive and well it seems. How many times do we have to go through this before we learn?

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From the low-fat fry-up into the firing squad to-do list.

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I've had a problem with Pete Evans since he started spreading dangerous nutritional advice. I can't believe it's taken so long for his publisher to drop him. I hope others (like Coles?) have also dropped him. As for his snarky "sorry not sorry" apology, that, like many other things he does makes my blood boil.

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