Australian Greens Remain As Committed As Ever To Isolating Their Party From Normal People

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Just months have haemorrhaging 75% of their sitting Parliamentarians in an election bloodbath, the Australian Greens are back doing what they do best:

That is, joining social media pile-ons that appear to be the number one topic of concern for a very highly engaged Twitter audience, but end up weirding out normal people.

This week, they are wading into SPORT. Something that they have long argued gets far too much airtime in Australian politics.

The AFL is facing criticism from faceless people on the internet for aligning themselves with a US rapper known as Snoop Dogg, who is considered one of the most popular recording artists of his generation, because he used homophobic and misogynistic lyrics about 40 years ago.

Calvin Broadus Jr, known professionally as Snoop Dogg is a 53-year-old American rapper, record producer, and actor, who started his career as a high-octane gangster rapper from the streets of LA in the early 1990s.

After nearly 40 years in the public eye, Snoop Dogg survived the gang shootings and Federal racketeering cases of the 1990s, to eventually moderate his public profile into a family-friendly ‘crazy uncle’ persona – much like that of Willie Nelson before him.

From cameos in Ben Stiller films, to voicing cartoon characters in animated kids movies, Snoop Dogg has long stopped rapping about fierce gang rivalries and his ghetto marital woes – and has now evolved into a fully fledged cultural institution.

He has previously performed at both the US Super Bowl and the Paris Olympics. However, there seems to be something about Snoop Dogg that just rubs Australians lefties the wrong way.

The Greens have today joined a not-growing chorus of noisy commentators in calling for the AFL to cancel their decision to book US rapper Snoop Dogg as the halftime entertainment at the 2025 Grand Final, with one senator describing the reformed gangster rapper as a “slur merchant”.

The Greens say that this scary black man makes them quiver in the boots, and are demanding that he be immediately replaced by a morally pure artist that is absolutely squeaky clean.

Examples of appropriately puritan musicians includes previous halftime performers like Robbie Williams, Katy Perry and Meat Loaf. Or the choir boys from Cold Chisel, INXS or KISS.