Boy, is this one ever a doozy.
“I’ve seen people calling me a bogan, calling me a racist pig, all off one photo. A woman on the radio called me a toothless, tattooed freak.”
“Well okay, great, if she wants to pay for me to get my tooth fixed then that’s great, I’ll shake her hand, because I’m in the waiting line to have it done.”
Paterson’s attendance at the rally was largely based on his own frustrations at being unable to secure permanent Government-funded housing, and illustrated his grasp of racial and socio-political divisions thusly.
“At the rally I was chanting Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi, which is something every Australian chants at sporting matches against other countries, so is every Australian a racist now?”
To further ram that point home – the point being that he is not a racist – he pointed out the fact that he is familiar with the Bangladeshi owner of the local kebab shop he frequents.
“I don’t actually know his name, I call him Bangladesh, he’s my mate from the gym.”
Nathan Paterson discusses the reaction to him becoming the face of the Reclaim Australia rally in Cessnock. pic.twitter.com/2RPWESB5kW
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The real kicker, though – the one that’s really going to put some wrinkles in your brain – is when he protested about people looking down on him simply due to his appearance.
“People judge you just for the way you look, without knowing anything about you, which I think, that’s not fair.”