Yet Another Young Liberal Has Been Busted for Sexist Facebook Rants

At this point, I’m pretty sure there’s someone at Fairfax whose job it is to trawl Liberal Party-related social media accounts for racist, sexist, homophobic and otherwise ill-advised comments, and then dob those responsible in to their superiors.
Whoever that person is, they’ve certainly earned their bonus this week. 

Today’s episode of Young Liberals Saying Dumb Shit On Facebook comes to you from Swinburne Uni, where the vice president of the Liberal Club has just stepped down after a ream of sexist and homophobic abuse came to light in … you guessed it, The Age.

This time around, screenshots emerged of an utter charmer by the name of Tim Dark, who is also vice president of the Keysborough branch of the Liberal Party, laying into “butchy lesbians” and “faggots” in a comments thread.

”Lesbians are misandrists and the homosexual like yourself could be considered misogynistic,” he said “If you are into stereotyping.” Boilerplate bullshit about how gay marriage will tear apart the fabric of society and how being a lesbian is a lifestyle choice also followed.

Dark clarified later in the rant that he does not “want all homosexuals dead”, though. Which is nice. 

“I sincerely apologise for any offence that I may have caused,” he said upon stepping down from his post in the Liberal Club. “Any comments were off the cuff remarks which were not to be taken seriously.”
This comes little more than a day after Young Liberals at Melbourne University were caught out talking about “sluts” and “third world degenerate c—s” on Facebook.

Somewhere, there is a very sad Young Liberal whiteboard with “0 Days Since An Embarrassing Social Media Clusterfuck” written on it.

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