After the most recent bit of flogging by Murdoch vehicle The Australian, Yassmin Abdel-Magied has put her money where their mouth is.
In a sterling example of lemonade-making, she’s pledged to donate to the Human Rights Law Centre, an organisation dedicated to protecting human rights through legal action and advocacy, every time The Australian prints something about her.
Okay I’ve decided for every word the @australian prints on me I’m going to donate to the @rightsagenda – who’s with me? pic.twitter.com/6juyvCLVjh
— Yassmin Abdel-Magied (@yassmin_a) June 22, 2017
Her decision comes after The Australian published yet another article hounding the Muslim writer and engineer, this time for (supposedly) “slamming our system of democracy“.
They’re referring to a moment during a panel at the Australian National University leadership forum in Canberra, when Abdel-Magied said the following:
“The traditional parliamentary system, I mean look at the photo of the House of Representatives. It does not represent anyone.”
She went on to say that in order to run for political office, “I have to go through all these other systems which for women and for people of colour are actually biased.”
Which The Australian has interpreted to mean she’s anti-democracy.
For context, this is the photo of the House of Reps she’s talking about:
Members of the House of Representatives pose for a photograph pic.twitter.com/Oh65nn9Tnb
— andrew meares (@mearesy) June 20, 2017
Thos people are overwhelming rich, white, old, and dudes. She’s right: they don’t represent most of Australia, and it is due to a traditional system that privileges certain people over others.
Hasn’t stopped bloody Eric Abetz effectively telling her to love it or leave it, obviously.
Still, offering to donate for every splittle-flecked word of right-wing rage is a real big move, and we’re here for it. Your turn, News Corp.
Source: The Australian.
Image: Facebook / Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
