The one simple question race 列／漕ぐ／騒動 上院議員 should have been able to answer - but her reply will shock you

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Greens 上院議員 Mehreen Faruqi has 辞退するd to 答える／応じる when asked outside her hate speech 審理，公聴会 if she considered all white people to be 人種差別主義者.?

上院議員 Faruqi is 告訴するing 上院議員 Pauline Hanson for $150,000 in 損害賠償金 over online comments the One Nation leader made in September 2022,?telling Sen. Faruqi to 'p*** off 支援する to Pakistan' after the Green made a disparaging comment に引き続いて the death of Queen Elizabeth II.?

The Greens 副 leader took to X to say she 'cannot 嘆く／悼む the leader of a 人種差別主義者 empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples'.

上院議員 Faruqi was approached by 独立した・無所属 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Chris De Bruyne outside the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 in Sydney?this week where she gave a surprisingly 非，不，無-committal answer to what should have been an easily refutable proposition.

'Are all white people 人種差別主義者?' Mr De Bruyne asked.

上院議員 Faruqi shook her 長，率いる and replied 'no comment'.?

'That's not a no,' Mr De Bruyne 押し進める d.

上院議員 Faruqi's solicitor then advised her not to 答える／応じる and the pair walked away.

上院議員 Mehreen Faruqi outside 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 this week replied 'no comment' when asked 'are all white people 人種差別主義者?'

She is 告訴するing Pauline Hanson (pictured with her lawyer 告訴する Chrysanthou) for $150,000 in 損害賠償金 over what she （人命などを）奪う，主張するs was a 人種差別主義者 tweet 目的（とする）d at her

Sen. Faruqi has （刑事）被告 Sen. Hanson of beaching section 18C of the Racial 差別 行為／法令／行動する which 禁じるs 行為／法令／行動するs that 感情を害する／違反する, 侮辱 or humiliate a person based on their race, ethnicity or 国籍.?

She told the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 this week that 言葉の attacks on white people cannot be considered 人種差別主義者 because the 概念 is 'tied to 力／強力にする' and that '力／強力にする ... is held by white people' in Australia.

'It is tied to who 持つ／拘留するs the 力／強力にする and who has the 当局 to （罪などを）犯す 人種差別主義 and 抑圧する people,' Ms Faruqi said when asked about comments her son, 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Osman Faruqi, had made criticising white people.?

'And in this country, the 力／強力にする of that is held by white people.

In his の近くにing submissions in the 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 on Wednesday, Ms Faruqi's barrister Saul Holt KC labelled 上院議員 Hanson a 'a high-profile purveyor of hateful speech' against people of migrant 遺産.

'The words published (in her tweet) were a 見解／翻訳／版 of a 井戸／弁護士席 known, anti-migrant, 人種差別主義者 phrase 'go 支援する to where you （機の）カム from',' he said.

'And they were plainly 的d (at) a brown, イスラム教徒, migrant 上院議員.'

上院議員 Faruqi was born in Pakistan before migrating to Australia, where she became Australia's first イスラム教徒 上院議員 in 2018.

Mr Holt argued the words sent 'a （疑いを）晴らす message' of 'the idea of banishment' and that 上院議員 Faruqi was 'of a lesser status' because of her 民族の origin.

'存在 told ... not to bite the 手渡す that 料金d you, is really to be told to shut up and stop engaging in 議論の的になる speech because you're a migrant,' he said.

The 法廷，裁判所 was told 上院議員 Faruqi had experienced psychological 外傷／ショック and 'extreme 苦しめる' after receiving her 上院 同僚's tweet and the 'bluntly sickening' flood of tweets that followed.

Sen. Hanson's 主張 thjt she should have 'taken it on the chin' 明らかにする／漏らすd the 'myth' that public 人物／姿／数字s are 'inoculated' from the 影響s of public 批評, Mr Holt said.

He argued the 衝撃 of the tweet was 'much more 相当な' on 上院議員 Faruqi because she already feels '除外するd' and 'othered' as a result of 存在 the first イスラム教徒 woman in 議会.

上院議員 Hanson played 'the person and not the ball' by '乱用ing a person versus an idea' in her tweet, Mr Holt said.

Hanson wrote, 'You took 市民権, bought 多重の homes, and a 職業 in a 議会. It's （疑いを）晴らす you're not happy, so pack your 捕らえる、獲得するs and p*** off 支援する to Pakistan'

He 公式文書，認めるd the 上院議員 had not 的d the 議論の的になる message or words of 上院議員 Faruqi's 初期の tweet, but rather attacked her as a person.

'This was a personal 人種差別主義者 attack based on a 返答 to a political tweet,' Mr Holt 主張するd.

'This tweet was (地位，任命するd) because of the fact that 上院議員 Faruqi is a イスラム教徒 woman of colour 同様に as the fact that she happened to be from Pakistan,' Mr Holt said.

'It's bluntly just classical racial 憎悪.

'(上院議員 Hanson) has never given any thought to the 傷つける she might 原因（となる）.'

However, 上院議員 Hanson's lawyer Kieran Smark SC rebutted the 主張s by arguing his （弁護士の）依頼人 had been engaging in political speech.

'You've got two members of the Australian 上院, both making public communications ... and the 支配する 事柄 is the death of the 長，率いる of 明言する／公表する,' he said.

'It's hard to think of a plainer example of 事柄s connected with 政府 and political 事柄s.'

上院議員 Faruqi （人命などを）奪う，主張するd Hanson's tweet 刺激するd a '激流' of 汚い online comments?

Ms Chrysanthou?honed in on social マスコミ 地位，任命するs made by Ms Faruqi's son, 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Osman Faruqi (pictured), which she told the 法廷，裁判所 were 不快な／攻撃 to white people - but 上院議員 Faruqi argued criticising 'white people' was not 人種差別主義者

Mr Smark 明言する／公表するd 上院議員 Faruqi had 'used the occasion of the death of the Queen to 前進する the 指名するd political 原因（となる）s' by 押し進めるing for Australia to become a 共和国 just hours after the 君主 died.

He argued 上院議員 Hanson had 答える／応じるd with a fair 表現 of her own opinion on the 事柄 of public 利益／興味.

When he was queried about the personal nature of the tweet, Mr Smark 答える／応じるd that 政治家，政治屋s often use 'powerful language' to 納得させる audiences of a 見解（をとる）.

'When you're replying to an attack, you may choose to 答える／応じる to the attack or 答える／応じる to the character of the accuser,' he said.

The 法廷，裁判所 heard 上院議員 Hanson had 以前 told another white 上院議員 to go 支援する to where he （機の）カム from, 示すing such 感情 was not based on race.

The 法廷，裁判所 was shown a clip of 上院議員 Hanson on a morning TV show in 2018 telling then-上院議員 Derryn Hinch to 'pack (his) 捕らえる、獲得するs and get on the next 計画（する） out of the country' 支援する to New Zealand.

'Come 支援する when you've got your manners,' she berated her 同僚 on 空気／公表する.

The ビデオ was tendered to the 法廷，裁判所 after 上院議員 Hanson was challenged on Tuesday about whether she had ever told a white person to go 支援する to their birth country.

Mr Smark will continue his の近くにing 声明s on Thursday after 宣言するing 上院議員 Hanson has 'no 義務／負債' に向かって the Greens 副 leader.

The 法廷，裁判所 heard 上院議員 Faruqi was not 捜し出すing 通貨の 刑罰，罰則s, but rather an order for 上院議員 Hanson to 寄付する $150,000 to Sweatshop Literacy Movement charity, …に出席する anti-人種差別主義 training and publish an 陳謝 tweet.

Both 上院議員s have 部分的に／不公平に 基金d their 合法的な 料金s through （人が）群がる-基金ing 壇・綱領・公約s.