{"id":2636595,"date":"2026-07-28T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politician-found-guilty-of-racial-discrimination-after-telling-ungrateful-non-native-lawmaker-to-go-home-which-isnt-a-race\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:02:36","slug":"politician-found-guilty-of-racial-discrimination-after-telling-ungrateful-non-native-lawmaker-to-go-home-which-isnt-a-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politician-found-guilty-of-racial-discrimination-after-telling-ungrateful-non-native-lawmaker-to-go-home-which-isnt-a-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician Found Guilty of Racial Discrimination After Telling Ungrateful Non-Native Lawmaker to Go Home (Which Isn&#8217;t a Race)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitician-found-guilty-of-racial-discrimination-after-telling-ungrateful-non-native-lawmaker-to-go-home-which-isnt-a-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2636595&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The content discusses Australia&#8217;s status as a constitutional monarchy where,despite its independence,the British monarch remains the nominal head of state. Notably, Australian politicians like Mehreen Faruqi have criticized the monarchy&#8217;s colonial past, leading to controversy. Pauline Hanson, a prominent populist politician, was recently convicted of racial discrimination after telling a Muslim senator to &#8220;return to Pakistan,&#8221; a statement upheld by a court ruling. Hanson argued her comments were protected free speech, but the court dismissed her appeal, emphasizing that hate speech is not free speech.The article highlights the distinction between race and nationality, noting that Pakistan is a country established in 1947, and criticizes laws that equate offending speech with racism. The piece also emphasizes the importance of free expression in democratic societies and warns against the slippery slope of criminalizing speech based on its content.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fun fact for the day that most of us in America don\u2019t realize: In Australia, the nominal head of state is the monarch of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike us tea-tossing Americans, who told the crown where they could stick it a full two centuries before the Sex Pistols made it cool, Aussies are still technically a monarchy. This seems slightly lame for an island settled by a bunch of criminals, but now that we view the British throne as a benign instrument of reminding the Anglosphere of its d cultural history, some respect is due in countries where the Windsors are recognized as technical heads of state.<\/p>\n<p>When Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, Australian politician Mehreen Faruqi, who was born in Pakistan, ruffled some feathers when she said on social media that she \u201ccannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonized people.\u201d Another Australian politician, Pauline Hanson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australian-right-wing-leader-pauline-hanson-loses-appeal-racial-discrimination-2026-07-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told her<\/a> she could \u201cpack your bags and p*** off back to Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guess who got convicted of racial discrimination?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably not surprised, even though \u201cPakistani\u201d isn\u2019t a race. You also won\u2019t be surprised that her conviction was recently upheld.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2k5v9202wo?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&#038;at_bbc_team=editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Australian populist leader Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against a Muslim senator in a 2022 by telling her to return to Pakistan, a court has said, upholding an earlier ruling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The One Nation party leader had appealed a 2024 ruling that she had breached the racial discrimination act when she responded to a post by Senator Mehreen Faruqi with an \u201cangry personal attack\u201d that was \u201canti-Muslim.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hanson had argued at the Federal Court that political communication should be protected but Justice Melissa Perry dismissed her appeal on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s win is for every single person who has been made to feel that their belonging in this country is conditional,\u201d Sen. Faruqi, a member of the Green Party, said after the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case was always about holding to account racism and holding to account those who perpetrate racism,\u201d she continued. \u201cHate speech is not free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You probably won\u2019t be surprised to learn that Hanson has a history of controversy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/ban-diseased-africans-says-hanson-20061207-gdozpu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going back<\/a> to the 1990s, when she was a loud critic of Aboriginal welfare and unchecked immigration from Asia.<\/p>\n<p>She first came to international attention due to her attempts to ban the burka. When those failed, she got the Australian Senate to be suspended by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/australian-senate-suspended-right-wing-leader-wears-burka-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wearing one in protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Damned if you don\u2019t, damned if you do.<\/p>\n<p>So Hanson is clearly a bit of a firecracker. She\u2019s also gaining traction with the electorate; according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roymorgan.com\/findings\/10293-federal-voting-intention-july-27-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a>, her One Nation populist-conservative party trails only the Australian Labor Party in polling for the next federal election, 27.5 percent to 25.5 percent. (The more staid conservative parties, the Liberals and the Nationals, are at 22 percent total; they\u2019re currently in a coalition.)<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this was the time for a judge to rebuke her, saying that \u201cgo back to where you came from\u201d was \u201ca racist trope with a long history\u201d which \u201cimplicitly\u201d targeted those of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alert-dem-lawmakers-want-first-america-state-commission-muslims-advance-protect-islam-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe ordered Hanson to delete the and pay Faruqi\u2019s legal costs,\u201d the BBC reported. \u201cFaruqi, the deputy leader of the Greens party, took Hanson to court after the was posted, arguing it breached the racial discrimination act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are several problems with this, aside from the fact that your ears should prick up every time you hear a politician in a supposedly free society say the magic words \u201chate speech is not free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unless you want a slippery slope where everything is \u201chate speech,\u201d of course it\u2019s free speech. Ugly, sure. Reprehensible, maybe. But part of the free speech package? Absolutely, unequivocally, and non-negotiably.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it\u2019s worth noting that this is remarkably ignorant as a ruling for an Australian political establishment that loves to paint Hanson as the ignorant party.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani, of course, is not a race. The nation of Pakistan did not exist until 1947, and it did not magically create people who were of Pakistani extraction. Hanson did not particularly call her out on her ethnic extraction (a Pashtun who originally hails from the current state of <a href=\"https:\/\/asianaustralianproject.com\/2022\/07\/02\/mehreen-faruqi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punjab<\/a>). She simply told her that if she didn\u2019t want to be there, she could go back to a country which ceased recognizing the monarchy in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as if she would be a great deal more comfortable there, given her antipathy to the crown. This isn\u2019t a racist thought, merely the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Islam, also, is not a race, as you probably know. Anyone from any race and any ethnicity can indeed become Muslim if they so choose. Naturally, if that choice is made, there are certain cultural aspects of that religion that can be criticized in a free society, including aspects which are non-negotiable tenets of the faith if followed in orthodox fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The same could be said of Christianity, except Christians don\u2019t have the tendency to take people to court and insist that \u201chate speech is not free speech\u201d if you quote Richard Dawkins on social media, say. (We also don\u2019t pursue violent ends if lawfare isn\u2019t available to us, either. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mosque-targeted-shooting-shocking-ties-9-11-imam-supported-october-7-massacre-jewish-civilians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is not a two-way street<\/a>, you may have noticed.)<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, taking someone\u2019s non-racial comment and attaching it to \u201ca racist trope with a long history\u201d should not count as legitimate jurisprudence in a free society. But then, this is the history of every statute which criminalizes speech as \u201chateful.\u201d In the end, it always mutates from a law criminalizing certain behavior to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/victor-davis-hanson-left-used-champions-free-expression-now-not-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime in search of thought criminals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, it\u2019s certainly found one in Pauline Hanson.<\/p>\n<p>No one is pretending that she has an uncontroversial history, but when courts are calling her a racist for a comment which didn\u2019t mention race and cannot be attached, even via the specious and tendentious \u201ctrope\u201d argument, to anything related to race, one can understand why she feels the necessity to stir the pot.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson said she was \u201cdisappointed\u201d in the ruling and would be reviewing it \u201cwith a view to commencing an appeal in the High Court of Australia.\u201d Whatever the case, this should significantly alarm Australians to the point of at least listening to Sen. 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