‘Australian hero’ shuts down right-wing influencer’s race question in viral clip
An Aussie sports fan has been praised for “shutting down” a right-wing influencer with a very colourful response to a question about race.
An Aussie sports fan has been praised for “shutting down” a right-wing influencer after delivering a very colourful response to a question in a viral street interview in the UK.
The unidentified young man was quizzed by “Hermes”, a self-described independent journalist from Miami who is currently on a “Save Europe Tour” travelling to various cities to film anti-immigration videos.
Hermes, who has nearly 90,000 followers on X and 44,00 YouTube subscribers, is known for conducting street interviews where he asks people loaded questions about topics like race, immigration and crime to elicit a viral response.
“Would you rather have an all-black national soccer team that wins, or an all-white English national team that loses?” he asks the Australian man in the video, filmed outside Mary D’s Irish bar near Etihad Stadium in Manchester.
“I mean, as an Aussie, it is what it is,” the moustachioed man replies.
“You get the win, you get the win. Ain’t about colour, boys, it’s all about getting the win, mate.”
“Do you think a black guy can be English?” Hermes prods.
“Of course, mate, yeah,” the man says.
“I’ve only been here two months and most English fellas I’ve met, they’re black fellas, mate, like, they’re good boys. It is what it is.”
“What about Indians? Can an Indian become an Australian?” Hermes asks.
“Yeah of course — we got heaps, mate, you ever been to Sydney?” the man replies.
He then sums up his philosophy in a typically eloquent Australian manner.
“This is my analogy, right?” he says.
“If you’re a good c**t, you’re a good c**t, if you’re a s**t c**t, you’re a s**t c**t. Doesn’t matter about skin tone, mate.”
The video has been viewed more than seven million times on X, with many praising the Aussie’s response.
“Easily the best and most Australian analogy ever,” wrote Omar Sakr, a Lebanese-Turkish poet and author, praising the man for “shutting down” the YouTuber.
“This fella is an Australian hero,” added Australian journalist Martin Flanagan.
“He has just articulated our national ethic.”
Scores of similar comments echoed those sentiments.
“Made my day,” one user wrote.
“Aussies are a civilisation of honest people,” another added.
Many took aim at Hermes’, with one person claiming that was “not the reply he was hoping for”.
“He’s made you look like a right nob,” another said.
“This is literally what it’s like when a brain poisoned Twitter ghoul tries to have a conversation with a normal person who isn’t on this app,” a third wrote.
“Do you ever get the answers you want or is everyone you interview normal?” one asked.
Not everyone agreed, however, with some taking the interviewer’s side.
“A national embarrassment,” one person said.
“The same talking points by the elite wealth that is destroying nations for profit and power. He feels as though he is being a ‘good’ person but is just spewing social programming that was formulated in an elite think tank.”
In another video from his tour, Hermes interviewed UK commentator Lucy White from GB News, who called for “mass deportations” as the country faces growing protests over the migrant hotel scandal.
“Right now as we’re sitting here I can’t see really any English people … and this is our homeland, it’s just awful,” White said.
“I think people are waking up to it because it’s everywhere. The issue is some people are OK with it.”
White added that even the left-wing Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer was “now calling for deportations”.
“Eventually they are going to have to be serious on mass deportations” she said.
“People are angry. People are very angry … Of course we need remigration. We need mass deportations. We need to start by, at least the last 10 years, looking at all the asylum seeker applications that were granted, visas, citizenship, and ask who was granting those and why, because there have been cases of corruption.”
White highlighted the case of former Home Office worker Imran Mulla, 39, who was jailed in June for abusing his position to grant asylum applications in return for cash.
“There’s been so much corruption in terms of who’s been let into our country, but also so much incompetence,” she said.
The UK’s population grew by 755,254 (1.1 per cent) in the year to June 2024 to a record 69.3 million people, according to the latest official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released last week.
Nearly 98 per cent of that increase was from net migration.
More than 1.2 million people immigrated to the UK in the year to June 2024 while 496,536 were estimated to have emigrated, putting net migration at 738,718.
Reform UK, the rising right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage, has floated a plan to deport thousands of both legal and illegal immigrants and cut off routes to obtain citizenship.
Mr Farage said last week his plans would target the “Boriswave” of legal migrants who arrived in the UK after Brexit under rules established by former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
On Sunday, Mr Starmer blasted the plan as “racist” and “immoral”.
“It is one thing to say we’re going to remove illegal migrants, people who have no right to be here. I’m up for that,” he told the BBC.
“It is a completely different thing to say we are going to reach in to people who are lawfully here and start removing them. They are our neighbours. They’re people who work in our economy. They are part of who we are. It will rip this country apart.”
Earlier this month, up to 150,000 people took to the streets of central London for a “Unite the Kingdom” rally organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson to protest mass immigration and perceived crackdowns on free speech.
“It’s an invasion,” 28-year-old Ritchie, who only gave his first name, told AFP of the record levels of immigration in recent years, including tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving annually on small boats across the Channel.
“They don’t understand we want our country back.”
Around 5000 people turned up to a “Stand Up to Racism” counter-protest nearby, with a number of clashes erupting as police battled to keep the two groups separate.
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