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