You know the old saying: “Sticks and stones are virtually harmless and relatively easy to dodge (especially if you know how to barrel roll), but words can crush your soul and make you incapable of functioning in society.”
Mehreen Faruqi will launch federal court action against Pauline Hanson under the Racial Discrimination Act, after the One Nation founder told the Greens senator to “piss off back to Pakistan” in an ugly social media clash following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Faruqi wants Hanson to make a $150,000 donation to charity and to publish a new tweet saying she had used offensive language. The New South Wales senator said she chose to escalate legal action over the September 2022 tweet after a complaint through the Human Rights Commission was terminated.
“I’m drawing a line in the sand and saying enough is enough. Doing nothing will just keep hate afloat,” Faruqi said.
The inaugural speech from when the parasite got her job
Action has been filed in the federal court over Hanson’s tweet. Guardian Australia understands Hanson was served with the notice on Wednesday afternoon.
Hanson was approached for comment. A spokesperson declined to immediately comment.
On 9 September, the day of the Queen’s death, Faruqi tweeted: “I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.”
Hanson quote-tweeted that post to her own followers, replying: “Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.”
The Greens moved a censure motion against Hanson in the Senate, but amendments from Labor and the Coalition leaders saw Hanson’s name and her comments removed from the motion, instead replaced with a general call for respectful debate.
In her own speech on the motion, Hanson refused to retract her tweet and doubled down by saying she would “take [Faruqi] to the airport”.
Faruqi later complained to the AHRC, claiming she had been subjected to racist hate speech from others on social media after Hanson’s tweet. However her office said the complaint was terminated on 8 March.
Faruqi’s office said a delegate of the AHRC’s president believed there was no reasonable prospect of the matter being settled by conciliation, in terminating the complaint.
The AHRC was approached for comment.
On Wednesday, Hanson was served with legal papers over Faruqi’s court complaint, as the dispute was escalated to the federal court.
“This court action is about holding her accountable and using the Racial Discrimination Act to prevent her from engaging in bigoted conduct that hurts people in the future,” Faruqi said.
Faruqi’s office said she would seek remedies including Hanson being forced to make a $150,000 donation to a community organisation chosen by Faruqi, and undertake anti-racism training. Faruqi also wants Hanson to remove the initial tweet, to pin a new tweet to her Twitter account stating she had committed unlawful offensive behaviour against Faruqi, and to be barred from using similar language in future.
The funny thing is: legislating against racial animus increases racial animus exponentially, and everyone knows that. Especially if you’re like, extorting people for hundreds of thousands of dollars because they said something mean to you. That turns frustration into hatred.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think they were doing this on purpose.
It certainly looks like they are trying to get Australians to lash out, which will result in a further crackdown.
Furthermore: telling a whiny foreigner to go back to their own country is a very reasonable statement. If someone was a guest in your house making outrageous demands, you would obviously ask them to leave.
There has never been a functional multicultural society, and there is precisely zero data on how these new multicultural societies that are being implemented in every Western country are supposed to function. The question is not even allowed to be discussed. You can be sanctioned for simply asking: “Do you have data supporting the theory that a functional multicultural society is possible?”
The one example they have is Singapore, and that is basically Chinese people living next to the British in a very small and heavily regulated – not to mention very wealthy – environment. Every example involving either groups other than the Chinese and Whites, and even those two groups at scale, resulted in catastrophic failure.
Ask these people why India was partitioned. Those people were the same race.
This is a Pakistani in Australia. Pakistanis proved incapable of living in peace with Hindus – people of their same race – because of religious differences. They partitioned the country.
This is all just total nonsense, and it should be offensive to all people with basic critical thinking skills.
This woman has been based for a long time