'Third world scumbags,' from a member of parliament, with the label worn proudly.
Lowe posted that he doesn't want “third world scumbags who have broken into our country allowed to freely roam our communities,” adding that if that makes him a far-right bigot, “I'm proud to wear that label.”
'Scumbags' attaches to migrants as a class, with no act named, and the sentence's demand is about their movement through public space.
The closing line anticipates the objection and embraces it, which tells you the label was the point.
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"I do not want third world scumbags who have broken into our country allowed to freely roam our communities. If that makes me some far-right bigot, then I'm proud to wear that label."
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