#AsAMother trends as Australia decides motherhood is ** excuse for bigotry
 

#AsAMother trends as Australia decides motherhood is ** excuse for bigotry
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Turns out, motherhood is **t always the best excuse.

On Monday, Australian television presenter Sonia Kruger an**unced her support for ending Muslim migration into Australia on the breakfast show Today, immediately provoking plenty of backlash and outrage.*

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After her comments were met with heated discussion on social media, much of which called her out for being racist, Kruger responded using motherhood to justify the diatribe.*

"Following the atrocities of last week in Nice where 10 children lost their lives, as a mother, I believe it's vital in a democratic society to be able to discuss these issues without automatically being labelled racist," she wrote. Read more...


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