Apparently Pauline Hanson is planning to move a motion in the senate today that the senate acknowledge:

a) The deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilisation.

b) It is okay to be white.

Pauline Hanson is going to move in a motion in the Senate on Thursday that “it is ok to be white”. pic.twitter.com/4hQ6PxuzL4 — Alice Workman (@workmanalice) September 19, 2018

This might seem strange to any rational thinking person since no one is out there saying that it’s not okay to be white. But if you’re familiar with white supremacist movements, and the racist trolling campaigns of 4chan, then it probably comes as no surprise to anyone that Pauline would do such a thing.

According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) website, ““It’s okay to be white” has a long history in the white supremacist movement. The white power music band Aggressive Force used the phrase as the title of a song that dates back to 2001. Additionally, ADL has tracked white supremacist fliers featuring the phrase since 2005, and Klan groups have used #IOKTBW on Twitter since 2012″

It apparently regained popularity in 2017 after a 4chan campaign suggesting people print out the slogan and post it across university campuses in America. The idea of this, according to one 4chan user, was that, after posting the fliers, “The next morning, the media goes completely berserk.” People would see “that leftists & journalists hate white people, so they turn on them”, this would be a “massive victory for the right in the culture war” and “many more /ourguys/ [would be] spawned overnight.”