Politician calmly handles confrontation with far-right ‘racists’

Again, some people are unkind.

Australian politician Sam Dastyari, who is of Iranian descent, was confronted by men at a Melbourne pub on Wednesday. The men claimed to be from a far-right group called Patriot Blue, and continually harassed Dastyari, all while captured on camera.

“You terrorist. You little monkey,” one of the men can be heard saying in a video uploaded to Patriot Blue’s Facebook page. 

The men continually ask if Dastyari if he is a Muslim, and tells the politician to “go back to Iran you terrorist.”  Read more…

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