Imagine if he did this to a left wing MP?
Pere Huriwai-Seger is a Te Pāti Māori candidate. He saw Casey Costello in a foodcourt and proceeded to berate her.
Casey politely said “We’re not going to agree, so just move on”. But this guy then seats herself down at her table so he can continue to harass her. Once someone has asked you to leave them alone, it is harassment.
He then said “Of course you’re gonna get it”.
The amazing thing is this bloke who harassed a female MP thinks he is the wronged party.
Imagine if say an ACT Party candidate went up to the female Maori Green MP at a foodcourt and started berating them, and then refused to leave them alone, sat down at their table and told them “you’re going to get it”.
We would have headline after headline about how it is not safe for wahine Maori MPs and that the ACT Party candidate must be thrown out of the party. The usual suspects would do pseudo-academic reports about how this is all the fault of the online right etc.
Now watch how the media report this, if they even do. I bet you they will frame it with Costello as the wrongdoer or just ambiguous headlines such as “NZ First MP in fracas” rather than the correct “NZ First MP harassed by TPM candidate in food court”.
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