Two high-profile senators are embroiled in a social media feud over ‘pro-Nazi slogans’.
Controversial One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has taken a swipe at Greens MP Sarah Hanson-Young for her vitriol over ‘It’s okay to be white’ posters plastered in front of her Adelaide electorate office earlier in the week.
Senator Hanson-Young shared a photo of the poster to social media on Wednesday, slamming the banners as ‘vile racism’.
But the One Nation Leader disagreed, replying a day later to insinuate the Greens Senator was unnecessarily upset.
MP Pauline Hanson (pictured) is embroiled in a Twitter feud over ‘It’s okay to be white’ posters
She wrote a message to Greens MP Sarah Hanson-Young, offering to send her tissues
Sharing a picture of a tissue box on top of an express post satchel, Senator Hanson wrote a personalised message for Senator Hanson-Young.
‘I heard that you were very upset and wanted to help so I had my office send these over to you,’ she wrote alongside the tissue box.
‘I do apologise though, I could only find them in white.’
Senator Hanson signed off the tweet with ‘best wishes’, much to the delight of her supporters who praised her ‘brilliant troll’.
But Senator Hanson-Young didn’t agree with Ms Hanson’s attack, likening her to a ringworm and calling her a disgrace.
‘Pauline, I don’t think that fanning racism is funny or something that as politicians we should do,’ she wrote.
The Greens MP hit back, likening Senator Hanson to a fungus and calling her a ‘disgrace’
Sarah Hanson-Young (pictured) first got involved in the feud after ‘It’s okay to be white’ posters were hung in front of her electorate office in Adelaide
‘Australians deserve better than this. You are a disgrace.
‘You are like the tinea that grows between the toes of the nation, irritating but just need good dose of anti-fungal cream.’
The Greens Senator said she referred the poster to the police, writing: ‘Pro-nazi slogans like this are not welcome in Adelaide. Go back to the rock you crawled out from and stay there.’
The posters are a reference to a controversial bill Senator Hanson tried to pass in federal parliament.
The posters are a reference to a controversial bill Senator Hanson tried to pass in the Senate
Earlier in October, the One Nation leader attempted to pass a motion in the Senate to force them to acknowledge that ‘It’s okay to be white’.
The motion was defeated 31-28 by opposition who deemed it a racist slogan from a white supremacist movement.
But Senator Hanson justified the bill by saying anyone who watched the news or social media would have seen increased attacks on western civilisation and the prevalence of anti-white racism.
‘It is indeed OK to be white. Such a simple sentence should go without saying but I suspect many members in this place would struggle to say it,’ she told parliament.
Though the motion failed to pass in the Senate, many members of the government voted in support, including indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion.
Senator Hanson borrowed the phrase from right-wing activist Lauren Southern, who wore the words on a t-shirt when she landed in Australia for a speaking tour in July.
Flyers with the words written on them have been around for almost two decades and was featured as a motto for a Ku Klux Klan faction in 2005.