The hypocrisy of the Left never ceases to astonish.

Having created a world where ‘words are literally violence’ and pretty much anything counts as an ‘offense worthy of being sacked’, I find it interesting that those on the social justice side of politics never apply these new language rules to themselves.

Julian Hill, the Federal Member for Bruce, put out a tweet in which he said:

BUDGET REPLY: Dutton dressed as lamb.

Which he followed with a picture of a potato and a lamb.

BUDGET REPLY: Dutton dressed as lamb. ?? #auspol

— Julian Hill MP (@JulianHillMP) May 16, 2024

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a clever pun to play on your political opposition, and had it been made pre-90s when Australia was still a normal, jovial, ruthlessly offensive and yet somehow laid-back country – it would have been fine.

Thanks to Labor, we don’t live in that country.

Our speech is relentlessly policed and soon citizens could find themselves silenced by order of the e-Safety Commissioner for ‘offensive and hurtful’ things said online.

Is Julian Hill’s speech offensive and hurtful?

Objectively, yes. He compared the Leader of the Opposition to both a potato and a lamb, perhaps insinuating a future lamb roast. Maybe he didn’t check with his Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who was upset with random citizens making memes that tugged at his feelings…

I want you to imagine, for a moment, if Dutton had called a female Labor MP a piece of meat – in particular, a phrase used to objectify and degrade the appearance of older women.

He would not have survived it.

Labor would have cried ‘hate speech’ ‘misogyny’ and ‘violence’ while the full force of the billion-dollar ABC press would have descended upon him, re-igniting the lie that the Liberals have a problem with women. ‘Does the minister want women gutted and skewered for an Australia Day BBQ?’ ‘What is this, the 1400s where women are market produce to be eaten by the patriarchy???’ Within hours he would have been accused of not only hate speech, but a hate crime, such is the intensity of the Woke-puritan mob.

But when a bloke says it – when a Labor man says it – nothing happens.

It is even cheered by the same people who want us to furnish their safe spaces with an e-Safety Commission and the Misinformation and Disinformation law.

We are not asking Julian Hill to hold his tongue, apologise, or police his speech.

We are asking the Labor Party at large to stop its entrenched hypocrisy and lay off the censorship of social media – especially when its ministers put out tweets like this.