Nationals Gronk Barry O’Sullivan Slammed After Casually Dropping A Racial Slur
Shock: Terrible Senator continues to be terrible.
Nationals Senator and king deadshit Barry O’Sullivan has been slammed after casually dropping a wildly offensive racial slur during Senate Estimates on Tuesday.
The Senator for Queensland was speaking about the proposed Biosecurity Imports Levy, which would impose a tax on goods brought to Australia by boat, when he claimed that “there’s a bigger chance of us having a biosecurity breach by some bloody old Chinaman who brings in his favourite sausage down the front of his undies”.
“I’m not opposed to a tax to raise money for biosecurity, but from those that pose a risk,” O’Sullivan added. “So start with the Chinaman.”
The remarks sparked an immediate backlash, with Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan telling SBS News that O’Sullivan’s words were “offensive and insulting to many Australians, including more than 1.2 million Australians of Chinese heritage”.
Tan’s predecessor Tim Soutphommasane also weighed in, tweeting that he was “not surprised to see the casual use of a racist term from Barry O’Sullivan”.
‘Some bloody old Chinaman …’ Unfortunately, I’m not surprised to see the casual use of a racist term from Barry O’Sullivan in the Senate pic.twitter.com/JRdoiGFXw7
— Tim Soutphommasane (@timsout) February 19, 2019
This isn’t the first time that O’Sullivan has been criticised for saying offensive and/or stupid shit. In 2016 he said migrants to Australia should be “quizzed about their religion” in order to weed out extremists, and last year asked if he could identify as a woman so he could use the “ladies’ loo loo”. In December he officially declared he was a woman so people would stop “attacking” him for his opposition to abortion.
On top of all that, O’Sullivan has also been labelled a sexist over remarks he made about Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. In November he claimed there was “a bit of Nick Xenophon in her — and I don’t mean that to be a double reference”. Hanson-Young responded by calling his comments “reprehensible and disgusting”, while Greens leader Richard Di Natale was ejected from Parliament after calling O’Sullivan “a pig”.