Labor senator Kim Carr’s ‘Hitler youth’ Nazi slur to Liberal senator
A LABOR senator has compared the Young Liberals to the “Hitler Youth” in a fiery exchange in a parliamentary hearing in the Senate this morning. WATCH THE VIDEO
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A LABOR senator has compared the Young Liberals to the “Hitler Youth” in a fiery exchange.
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Veteran senator Kim Carr lashed out at Liberal senator James Paterson — the former Young Liberal president — in a parliamentary hearing this morning.
After Senator Paterson made a joke about the Russian Revolution, Senator Carr hit back saying: “You’d know that, those in the Hitler Youth would understand that only too well.”
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The Liberal senator said that was “seriously offensive” and “outrageous” and demanded the comment be withdrawn.
But an angry Senator Carr said Senator Paterson was “a poor petal” and that he was “being facetious”.
“You just threw a bucket of s--- at me, and you’re going to suddenly say you’re offended, for God’s sakes,” the Labor senator said.
in which education #estimates goes from Russian revolution > Hitler youth > Nazis > "bucket of shit" > "poor petal" in a wild 50 seconds between Kim Carr and James Paterson (calmly mediated by Lucy Gichuhi) pic.twitter.com/vvywDJr4kr
— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) March 1, 2018
Senator Carr then withdrew the comment, later saying he apologised for the remarks and “we’ll move on from there”.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said his comments were “grossly offensive”.
“It has become far too frequent and common to use the Holocaust for sloganeering and I do hope that there will come a time when public figures will realise that using inappropriate and painful analogies to Hitler in order to score a political point and generate headlines are misguided and insensitive,” he said.
It follows an angry clash in Senate estimates yesterday when government minister Michaelia Cash bizarrely threatened to air rumours about young women who worked for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.
Originally published as Labor senator Kim Carr’s ‘Hitler youth’ Nazi slur to Liberal senator