Over the weekend, Connolly became an internet hero after cracking an egg on the head of Australian Sen. Fraser Anning,who faced widespread denunciationafter blaming themass shootings at two mosques in New Zealandon the Muslim faith and Muslim immigration.
“I would have knocked that kid cold,” Cain, 52,wroteon Twitter after watching the video of the incident, despite acknowledging Connolly is a child.
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“He was protesting against a horrible racist man who blame(d) the death of those 50 people on them and their religion,” one social media userwrote in responseto Cain’s tweet.
However, Cain’s opinion of Connolly didn’t change. “You break, you buy,” Cainsaid backto the Twitter user.
The two proceeded to go back and forth asthe woman tweeted“That makes no sense” to Cain.
He thenwrote back“You perpetuate violence upon someone, you will reap the repercussions.”
Other users chimed in to slam Cain with one commentator tweeting “So you would rather have a racist than an egg throwing boy? That’s really disgusting.”
“I’d rather have neither,” Cainresponded.
Another user went as far as calling Cain out for supporting a “white supremacist,” which Cainvehemently denied.
“Dean, do you realise you are supporting a white supremacist that would probably despise you for being racially 3/8ths Japanese? Do you understand that he would hate you simply for being born the way you are? He is a Nazi and YOU ARE PART OF THE ILK HE HATES,” the user expressed.
“I give him ZERO support,” Cain fired back.
In addition to the internet’s support, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison also slammed Sen. Anning, telling reporters “The full force of the law should be applied to Sen. Anning,” according to NBC News.
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Supporters of Connolly have alsolaunched a GoFundMepage to raise funds for the boy’s legal fees.
According to the fundraiser, the money raised will go to “legal fees and more eggs.”
As of Monday, the page raised over $50,000.
Connolly has instead decided to send the donations to the victims of the Christchurch attack, according to the GoFundMe page.
“Those views have no place in Australia, let alone the Australian Parliament,” Morrison said.
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was even more pointed,according to theWashington Post, calling Anning a “disgrace to the Senate.”
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Anning, who has a history of extremist Islamophobic politics, made sure to note in his initial statement that he is “utterly opposed to any form of violence within our community, and I totally condemn the actions of the gunman.”
But the remainder of his lengthy statement attacked Islam and Muslim immigrants in startling terms.
“Let us be clear, while Muslims may have been the victims today, usually they are they are the perpetrators,” he said, describing Islam as “the religious equivalent of fascism.”
“Just because the followers of this savage belief were not the killers in this instance, does not make them blameless,” he concluded.
New Zealand authorities say 50 people were killed and dozens more were injured in two shootings at mosques in Christchurch on Friday afternoon.
Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian man, has been charged with murder.
At least part of the shooting was live-streamed on social media.
An email sent to Sen. Anning’s office on Friday seeking further comment was not immediately returned.
source: people.com
