RIP Vasco

I don’t suppose Mary Leunig is too bothered by the passing of her big brother somehow, given the abuse allegations she levelled against him years ago. To be honest, there was always something about Michael Leunig I never liked even though I could never pin down what, but his later antivaxxer statements were a kind of final straw, and whatever good he may have done and however I may have even agreed with some of his positions was kind of undone by that…

For example, here’s an item from 2015, so it’s not even from the Covid era when this bullshit really took off. And then there was this… interesting reaction to the SSM plebiscite in 2017:

This is actually the first I’m discovering this, and it’s… not endearing me any further to him, let’s put it that way. I also found him commenting in more detail here, where he seems to be trying to say that his problem is with the institution of marriage itself and he can’t understand why gay people want to engage in something so awful, but even so.

So yeah, never really a fan. Still, he was a cultural icon for a lot of years and a lot of people liked him even if I was always dubious, so I suppose I should acknowledge him leaving us, even unkindly…