Australian Cinemas Ban “A Super Progressive Movie” Mocking Left-Wing Politics Over Fears of Offense
Parliament House in Australia has blocked a last-minute screening of a movie trailer for A Super Progressive Movie, saying it could offend some people.
The party had booked the Parliament House theatre almost six weeks ago, on October 16, and planned to show the trailer on Tuesday. Party leader Pauline Hanson told SkyNews.com.au that people had flown in from across Australia to attend.
At the last minute, the screening was cancelled. A spokesperson for the Department of Parliamentary Services said the decision was made according to Parliament House’s events policy. “These considerations include the requirement … of not being likely to cause offence to any part of the Australian community,” the spokesperson said.
Senator Hanson expressed frustration over the timing. “I strongly suspect they left it until the last minute to maximise our inconvenience,” she said. Hanson also criticized the decision as a failure to respect free speech.
“Our movie may very well offend some people. Offending people is an inevitable consequence of free speech, a fundamental principle of Australian democracy. No-one has a right to be unoffended, contrary to what the ‘super progressive left’ believes,” she told SkyNews.com.au.
The film’s creators, Mark Nicholson and Sebastian Peart of Stepmates Studios, described the movie as “a good old fashioned p***-take.” The story follows four progressives living in a protected bubble in Melbourne, called the “Naarm Bubble,” who are forced to face a real Australia where Pauline Hanson is Prime Minister.
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“It’s a hero’s journey, where these crazy lefties must venture into the real world to reclaim their ideology’s most powerful weapon: the Victimhood,” Peart explained. He added, “We wanted to take characters that are utterly ridiculous and put them through a serious philosophical and ideological arc. It’s silly, but it has something to say. We’re really proud of it.”
Hanson argued that Parliament House was ignoring the basic principles of democracy by preventing the screening. “Parliament is supposed to be the seat of Australian democracy and a forum for frank and fearless speech and debates of national importance. It doesn’t exist to protect people from being offended. It’s an insult to Australians to even suggest they need to be protected from a movie trailer,” she said.
Hanson also confirmed that the cancellation would not stop the screening. “Luckily, Parliament House is powerless to stop us from screening the trailer elsewhere and we’ve secured an alternative venue. We won’t allow Parliament’s fear of free speech to prevent us from exercising it,” she added.
Hanson said the move could even draw more attention to the film. “This sort of censorship, based on the fear of the free speech principles Parliament House obviously doesn’t understand, only promotes the material being censored,” she said.
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