From today's ABC News site 19 July:

A NSW councillor has posted a public apology on
Facebook after making an offensive(?) domestic
violence analogy during a council debate about a
koala reserve.

Cr. Wolgamot apologises for domestic violence remark during debate.

Coffs Harbour Councillor Scott Wolgamot made the
remark while speaking against a motion to increase
the City of Coffs Harbour's engagement with the
state government's proposed Great Koala National Park.

"This is one of those things you get asked like, 'Are
you still beating your wife?', where you can't say
yes and you can't say no", he said.

Wolgamot said he "used a very old conundrum in
relation to finding the correct answer — there was
no ill-intent in citing that... I deeply abhor domestic
violence, I do not condone it in anyway whatsoever".

Fellow councillor, Tegan Swan, said she did not hear
Cr. Wolgamot make the remark at the meeting,
(of course not, she didn't attend, even although it
was her duty as a councillor to do so), but was
subsequently made aware of it  by her mother(!)
 
I had never heard that phrase before, and it did
alarm and shock me".

         

Despite never having heard that old, common
conundrum, and not understanding what it meant,
poor little "woke" Tegan found it necessary to arc
up, and attack an older, better educated, and more
worldly-wise male—in an attempt to increase her
status on the council and in the headlines it produced.

And of course her ignorance and rabid "wokeness",
of necessity, effectively forced Cr. Wolgamot on to
the back foot and making an unwarranted apology for
something he said understood by 99% of the population—
except apparently by our little Miss Woke.

Checking on this silly young woman, I found that
she'd actually made a run for Coffs Harbour mayor a
couple of years back, after—unbelievingly—being its
deputy mayor.

John Smith wrote on Jul 19^th, 2023 at 6:03am:


LOL... obviously not as much as you John.

Upset enough at my post to make an empty
one-liner response?   Tsk, tsk.

Nothing intelligent to say about this "woke"
pandemic that's engulfing the population,
following in its wake like the rats of Hamelin?

Or do you like to think of yourself as woke?

AusGeoff wrote on Jul 19^th, 2023 at 6:59am:





see, more squeeling

John Smith wrote on Jul 19^th, 2023 at 7:04am:


It's all going down, Smith - first the 'voice' - now a US court has thrown out affirmative action and we are sure to follow at some time ... first we'll clear the Cheers, then the sheilas, then we can get down to the minorities.... drain each stinking swamp one at a time.

Once the voice is dead, cremated and buried - the Australian people are going to start demanding what their money is doing for these people who never move except backwards, and backwards against our type of government as if they retain that right.  They want their lore and law installed alongside the rest - well - so do I want mine..... I want any person who falsely accuses someone of racism to be imprisoned for twenty years.

I want your Brittany Higgins' of the world to be charged with fraud and RICO'd of their gains gotten by lies.

I want politicians and senior public servants guilty of wrongdoing to be stripped of everything they ever earned or accumulated in the job.

And I want ridiculous Queer flags removed from public buildings... the Abo flag on SHB is as far as I was prepared to go so you can stick the rest in the dark place.

John Smith wrote on Jul 19^th, 2023 at 6:03am:


I'd say it was Tegan Swan was the one that was triggered.

You on the other hand are just a spent cartridge...

you should try reloading with decent powder.

I don't like the use of "woke" as a pejorative.

Most of the MAGA idiots in America who use it have no idea what the word actually means.

But anyway, this woman does appear to be an idiot.

An ignorant idiot.

There was no need for an apology, FFS.