Australian white supremacists surrounded and harassed an Iranian-born lawmaker at a pub in Melbourne on Wednesday, calling him a “monkey” and a “terrorist,” as they filmed the encounter for their Facebook page. Footage of the incident recorded by members of the white supremacist group Patriot Blue showed that the lawmaker, Senator Sam Dastyari, refused to take the bait. “Honestly, I think you guys are a bunch of racists,” Dastyari told them, “I don’t have time for you.”

With what the Australian politics observer Sean Kelly called “the self-satisfaction of a 5-year-old who’s just learned the phrase ‘I know you are, but what am I?'” one of the men then asked the senator again and again, “What race is Islam?” After the men followed Dastyari back to his table and continued to ask him, “What race is Islam?” the senator’s friend and fellow legislator, Tim Watts, leaned into the phone of one white supremacist and replied, “What race is dickhead?”

I must have watched Tim Watts saying "what race is dickhead" a dozen times and it hasn't stopped being funny yet pic.twitter.com/hDnOV1uLkg — Josh Butler (@JoshButler) November 9, 2017

Tonight will always be the night that we got harassed by cowardly white nationalists & @TimWattsMP yelled “what race is dickead” #strayamate — Sam Dastyari (@samdastyari) November 8, 2017

Watts’s rejoinder was removed from Facebook along with the rest of the white supremacists’s video, but it was preserved online and by several media outlets. The member of parliament from Melbourne was widely praised for the comeback on social networks.

imagine feeling so entitled to owning the idea of what it is to be Australian that you would ambush someone in a pub and film yourself yelling at them #whatraceisdickhead — Abby Pinskier (@abbypinskier) November 8, 2017

Stomach drops watching this. Hard to reconcile that attitudes like this exist. @samdastyari handled it like a champion but I’m staggered he has to deal with it at all. #WhatRaceIsDickhead https://t.co/V7tEi8oysQ — Kyle Pollard (@KylePollard) November 8, 2017

“This type of extremism, this white nationalism, this is what leads to Charlottesville in the U.S.,” Dastyari told Sky News on Thursday. “This is what leads to the problems they have in America and frankly, the far-right in Australia, yeah, do feel empowered at the moment.”

.@samdastyari: There is no room for extremism in Australia. This is what leads to Charlottesville. MORE: https://t.co/WSZsuZspMw pic.twitter.com/kNxiD3NE8b — Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) November 8, 2017

At another stage in video of the incident posted on Dastyari’s Facebook page, one of the white supremacists can be heard proclaiming himself an “original Australian. Proud of it.”