Anthony Mundine has been dragged to hell and back for suggesting gay people should be hanged in an attempt to deter homosexuality, and for stating the push for equal rights is encouraging paedophiles to strive for their own protections.
Speaking to News Corp after his exit from I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, the former boxer said “if we were to live in a society, just like in Aboriginal culture, that homosexuality is forbidden and you do it and the consequences are capital punishment or death, you think you are going to do it? Or think twice about doing it?”
When pushed on whether he meant really gay people should be executed for their sexuality, Mundine said he was “mainly” referring to paedophiles.
“Hang them suckers and let’s see if they have the balls to do it again,” Mundine said.
Those comments extend from his previous comments on homosexuality. Prior to entering the South African jungle for the show, Mundine said homosexuality is “confusing to society” and argued that gay people shouldn’t appear on television at all.
His latest comments have quite rightly drawn intense criticism, with commenters taking issue with his hate, intolerance, and homophobia. Some have also decried Mundine for claiming that his culture gives a license to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation:
Can someone tell Anth*ny Mundine to stop hateful bigoted and violent rants to make himself relevant. There are young black kids who contemplate and/or suicide over this shit, we don’t need our own encouraging it.
— brokeblak mountain (@NayukaGorrie) February 9, 2018
If there are still black people defending Mundine then fuck you. You don’t care about all black people. You don’t care about black women or black queers. I’m black and queer and if I’m fortunate enough to be given a mic I try my best to leave no one behind.
— brokeblak mountain (@NayukaGorrie) February 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/nakkiahlui/status/961770471371886592
Anthony Mundine is vile human and his comments should be condemned.
Using our culture as a basis for his harmful opinions is disgraceful.
Women and LGBTI people are your equal Anthony, you’re not better than anyone. Educate yourself.— Casey Conway (@caseyconway_) February 8, 2018
Tim Campbell, husband of I’m A Celebrity 2016 contestant Anthony Callea, called Mundine a “vile, gutless homophobe.”
So a pathetic little ferret like #CelebAnthony Mundine couldn’t cope in the jungle, is a quitter, yet is “the man”?
I guess that makes my #CelebAnthony husband, who could face the challenge and battled it to the end, a much stronger “man” than that vile, gutless homophobe.— Tim Campbell (@TimCampbellTwit) February 8, 2018
When you make public statements about the call for capital punishment against LGBTI people, you deserve no respect and every piece of condemnation against you. https://t.co/e5RYvAGS8L
— Tim Campbell (@TimCampbellTwit) February 8, 2018
Mundine is slated to appear on The Project tonight. Don’t expect that one to dodge the bigot in the room.