Romper Stomper, Stan’s newest original series, is already causing controversy months before its release date.
The series picks up on the themes and story of Geoffrey Wright’s groundbreaking and controversial 1992 film of the same name.
The 1992 movie follows a gang of violent neo-Nazis from Melbourne, who attack three Vietnamese Australian teenagers in a tunnel at the Footscray train station. Youths from the Vietnamese community retaliate and an all-in gang war breaks out.
Twenty five years on, the six-part drama follows a new generation of the activist right, their anti-fascist counterparts and three young Lebanese Muslims caught between the conflict.
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In the series, the alt-right group refer to themselves as the “Patriot Blue”.
Essentially, Romper Stomper’s timing and commentary on the state of race relations in Australia is spot on. But unfortunately, the series has already been linked to a disturbing racially-based incident.
Last week, a group referring to themselves as the “Patriot Blue” verbally abused Senator Sam Dastyari at a Melbourne pub.
The group of men called Senator Dastyari a “terrorist” and told him to return to his birth country of Iran during the incident.
