Sonia Kruger Backs Her Muslim Ban Stance With The ‘As A Mother’ Defense

If you say all adherents of a millennia-old religion should be flat-out banned from entering the country while on national television, you can sure as hell expect to hear some counterpoints. 

They certainly came thick and fast at Sonia Kruger, following this morning’s statement that Muslim migration to Australia should be halted. The majority of respondents, understandably, claimed her ideas are just a lil’ bit totalitarian.

If you’re one of many who have a problem with her Trump-like assertion, we’ve got some bad news. Kruger has come through with a slam-dunk counterpoint that validates her entire worldview: she’s a mother, guys.

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— Sonia Kruger (@SoniaKruger) July 18, 2016

Yes, Kruger did indeed wheel out that classic piece of rhetorical solipsism to justify the total ban of Islamic peeps into our nation. 

It’s the kind of argument that is weaned / pried away from us early on thanks to a lil’ thing called empathy, and using it to justify discriminatory action against others (including mothers!) is… well, as primal and reactionary as advocating the ban in the first place. 

Twitter users haven’t taken too kindly to this comment either, with many pissed at her assumption people who ain’t mothers don’t care about lives lost to religious extremism:

@SoniaKruger this may be news to you but non-mothers care about kids too. It’s not a free pass for promoting hate.

— Rachael Lonergan (@RachaelHasIdeas) July 18, 2016

.@SoniaKruger and not stupidly stereotype him on the basis of his religion.

— ??? (@shenmaxiu) July 18, 2016

@SoniaKruger As a father, I reckon saying racist stuff is a bit shit. #asafather

— Nick Names Nuts (@nicknamesnuts) July 18, 2016

@SoniaKruger being a mother doesn’t give you the right to presume guilt on over a billion people for their faith alone

— Phil (@Superchair14) July 18, 2016

Source: Sonia Kruger / Twitter.
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