Pauline Hanson Tried To Expose “Anti-White Racism”. It Went Very Badly
"I went through a tunnel and couldn't access Triple M for about 3 minutes and 42 seconds #AntiWhiteRacism"
Even by the standards of widely ineffective Australian politicians, Pauline Hanson is not very good at her job.
She can barely manage her own party, a group of far-right demagogues who spend their time smearing blood on doors and slurring one another in the press. Nor does she have much luck passing or creating legislation.
In fact, she spends most of her time in parliament embarking upon hateful and misguided attempts to court the press’s attention, staging elaborate stunts that are so tiresome and regressive that they’re not even worth listing here.
Well, now even Hanson’s media stunts are misfiring. Her latest, an attempt to expose ‘anti-white’ racism, has come crashing down upon her, resulting in thousands of tweets dunking on her claim that Caucasian “victims” of discrimination “remain silent” for fear of inciting an angry mob.
It all started when Hanson attempted to hijack a Twitter hashtag that users had created to share stories of racism. Claiming that there were attempts to “deplatform” her, Hanson instructed her followers to share their own stories of anti-white racism, in the hope that the silent majority would come to her aid and prove the existence of discrimination that simply doesn’t exist.
A twitter mob is trying to get me deplatformed. I think we can turn their hashtag into a force for good. Anti-white racism is often ignored because victims remain silent but it is important the truth get out. Use #WakeUpToRacism to share your experiences of anti-white racism.-PH
— Pauline Hanson ?? (@PaulineHansonOz) August 15, 2019
Within minutes, Twitter users were taking the opportunity to royally dunk not just on Hanson, but the concept of anti-white racism altogether.
mocked by flight attendant for crying during airplane viewing of hunt for red october
— henno (@jrhennessy) August 15, 2019
every time i go out in public covered entirely in mashed potatoes — as is my culture — i am cruelly harassed by various sea birds!!!! #WakeUpToRacism
— ?
?Patrick Lenton??? (@PatrickLenton) August 15, 2019
lost my job at Full Time Mummy due to discrimination
— Lucy Valentine (@LucyXIV) August 15, 2019
The other day the grocery store was out of mayonnaise, and when I told them my cookout needed a full complement of condiments the manager failed to call the other local branches to have a jar delivered urgently. #WakeUpToRacism
— Daniel Summers (@WFKARS) August 15, 2019
I’ve never once been pulled over by a cop who assumed that I must’ve stolen my car #WakeUpToRacism
— ?Katherine of Tarragon (@katticus28) August 15, 2019
Growing up as a white child in Australia in the 1970’s, watching B&W TV was very confronting. I liked the white bits on the TV screen but I was deeply traumatised by all the grey and black bits. Thankyou Pauline Hanson for encouraging me to speak of my pain! #WakeUpToRacism
— Peter Murphy (@PeterWMurphy1) August 15, 2019
I was living in a share house and someone nicked my entire season 6 box-set of Star Trek: The Next Generation and season two of The West Wing #AntiWhiteRacism
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) August 15, 2019
I went through a tunnel and couldn’t access Triple M for about 3 minutes and 42 seconds #AntiWhiteRacism
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) August 15, 2019
As for Pauline, she’s suddenly gone very silent on the whole issue of anti-white racism since her tweet took off. Where is she to defend the mayonnaise-lovers and Star Trek boxset-deprived martyrs of the world?
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