There’s A Petition Urging Pauline Hanson To Eat A Halal Snack Pack In Western Sydney

During Channel Seven’s election coverage on Saturday night, bigot and recent addition to the Australian Senate, Pauline Hanson, became very upset when ALP Senator Sam Dastyari offered to take her out for a delicious Halal Snack Pack. As Junkee‘s Alex McKinnon said in our election live blog: “It’s funny until you remember that she and her fellow mad racists are in the Senate for the next six years, most likely.”

Hm.

Hanson’s vehement protests that she “doesn’t believe in it” are definitely disturbing; watching her froth and redden as attempts to spit out as much dangerous and depressing racism from her pie-hole as she can possibly muster, will turn your blood cold. But the upside is, the people are fighting back. Pauline Hanson is unwilling to accept Australia’s love affair with the Halal Snack Pack? She thinks she’s too good for a box of delicious meat and hearty chippies? This is unacceptable.

Luckily, some young entrepreneur called Alex Tas, has started a Change.org petition calling for Pauline Hanson to share a HSP with Sam Dastyari in Sydney and to “produce facts to support her unpopular statistic” that 98 percent of Australians do not support the halal certification. Facebook’s 147,000 strong Halal Snack Pack Appreciation Society are also less than thrilled about Hanson’s pronouncement, but they’ve had a lot of fun making memes about it at least.

This is all good and well (maybe Hanson’s racism could be cured by a mouthwatering HSP — stranger things have happened!) but we have to remember that Pauline Hanson’s deep racism should not be trivialised. We can laugh at this woman, but we can’t forget that what she stands for represents the worst and most discriminatory aspects of Australia. It’s going to be a long six years.

Australian Muslims now have to face Pauline Hanson in the senate, who has this as official party policy pic.twitter.com/oAu6lk8hC2

— Susan Carland (@SusanCarland) July 2, 2016