A white refugee supporting karen tries to talks over a melanated man demanding a permanent visa who is explaining why beyond money “What Australian values make you go… I want to live there!”
She is shocked when I tell her “You’re white, know your place”
Having like never felt… https://t.co/VnBBINy4t3 pic.twitter.com/EFbU8iHE1M
— Chriscoveries (@Chriscoveries) August 31, 2024
Immigrants protested in Sydney on Saturday demanding permanent visas for so-called refugees, accompanied by aggressive far-left activists.
A crowd of mainly Sri Lankan protesters gathered in the migrant-majority suburb of Punchbowl in the city’s southwest before marching to the office of Immigration Minister Tony Burke, chanting “free free refugees”.
None of the demonstrators held Australian flags despite wanting to be allowed to stay in the country forever, and like associated rallies in Melbourne and Brisbane in recent weeks the event appeared to be organised and supported by radical leftist groups such as Socialist Alliance.
Sydney reporter Chriscoveries followed the march and spoke to many of the attendees, but when he asked one of the Sri Lankan demonstrators why he chose Australia and what values he shares with Australians, a White Australian female left-wing protester intervened and would not let the man answer.
“Do you support refugees?” the woman, who was holding a sign saying “permanent protection for all refugees now”, demanded to know.
“Let’s not speak over melanated voices, let’s let him speak,” Chriscoveries responded.
“Don’t talk to him,” the activist then said to the Sri Lankan demonstrator, who was holding his three-year-old daughter and had earlier revealed that he had a permanent visa himself but was there to support those who did not.
When the reporter repeated his question, the protester said “that’s okay, leave it there” before the woman again interrupted and said: “If you don’t support refugees, you should not be here.”
Chriscoveries told Noticer News the protest was 80% to 90% Sri Lankan with a few Iranians and a few Whites, that most were economic refugees, and that the White demonstrators were the most disruptive.
“Most of those spoken to could not read the signs they held or speak more than a few words. Those few words were ‘Medicare’, ‘visa’, ‘I pay tax’,” he said.
“Questions such ‘as beyond money why do you want to live in Australia?’ left most shrugging with blank stares, pointing back to their signs and saying ‘it is as the sign is’.
“One Iranian political refugee said there was a vast difference between someone who is economic and someone who isn’t, and that there needs to be a difference in application and processing. We had a great discussion about freedom of speech.
“I had more in common with him than I did with most of the left-wing Whites who were simply there to try and tear down White, Anglo ‘normative’ orthodoxy.”
He added that the Christian Sri Lankans he spoke to shared more of he and his family’s values than any of the “White-hating socialists” who he met at the march.
The permanent visa protests have spread to Sydney and Brisbane from Melbourne, where demonstrators have been blocking the footpath in front of the Home Affairs office in Docklands for weeks, resulting in violent clashes with police and counterprotests by nationalist activists.
Just 12% of the population of Punchbowl had Australian ancestry at the time of the 2021 Census, and the suburb is located in Mr Burke’s electorate of Watson.
That seat is 25.1% Islamic and minority Australian-born, and is set to be targeted by a Muslim voting bloc at the next federal election.
