People love to get mad on the Internet, usually for reasons that don’t reeeeally matter that much. Today is not one of those days.

As you may already be aware, today is White Ribbon Day, which endeavours to raise awareness about the severe domestic violence problem we have in Australia.

77 women have died from male violence, and there was over 100,000 protection orders enabled due to domestic violence. Most of the perpetrators were men.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton wanted to make it known that he was in support of White Ribbon Day, and that he is someone who publicly denounces violence against women.

Unfortunately, he also happens to be the bloke who effectively sentenced a bunch of women and children to mandatory detention centres where sexual assault, rape, and violence against women runs rife.

From the multiple reports of abuse, rape and sexual assault, to the awful treatment of pregnant rape victim Abyan; it seem increasingly obvious to the general public of Australia (as well as the recent United Nations Human Rights forum delegates) that Nauru and Manus Island are not safe places.

Sending women and children to harmful and dangerous detention centres means you’re kinda okay with horrendous acts of sexual assault and violence against women, and are more or less part of the problem – otherwise you’d stop it happening, right? Which makes Peter Dutton a big fat hypocrite.

And so, it makes sense that the responses to Dutton’s tweet were a little more aggressive that he’d probably hoped for. And there’s a lot of them, too. These are just some:

@PeterDutton_MP unless you have any affiliation with boats. — Kirsty Webeck (@KirstyWebeck) November 25, 2015

@PeterDutton_MP your job is literally to oversee abuse and torture of women and children who seek asylum — Winnie Blues (@BinnieWridie) November 25, 2015

@PeterDutton_MP a bit hypocritical Pete in view of yr narrow minded policy on refugees on Nauru/Manus, don’t u think? Or colours matter 2 u? — Roz (@myofoz) November 25, 2015

@PeterDutton_MP You, who have real power to do something for women choose not to, and we all know it. — Anne Smith (@samemniktom) November 25, 2015

My friend was sexually assaulted in Nauru, brought to Aus for medical, taken to jail in dead of night b4 sent back to #Nauru @PeterDutton_MP — Shane Bazzi (@shanebazzi) November 25, 2015

Your hypocrisy is astounding. You make me sick @PeterDutton_MP. — Shane Bazzi (@shanebazzi) November 25, 2015

Why then @PeterDutton_MP do you send women & children to a place you know is not safe, where the risk of sexual violence is real? #Nauru — Tom Clarke (@TomHRLC) November 25, 2015

Except if its in a detention centre, paid for by Oz, then no problem at all @PeterDutton_MP. LNP went after whistleblowers who exposed it — choosing (@ch150ch) November 24, 2015

.@PeterDutton_MP Mandatory detention of them is state-sanctioned violence. Put your policy where your mouth is. — Trepanning For Gold (@reubenacciano) November 25, 2015

@PeterDutton_MP Is this some sort of sick joke? — Ningbojoe (@ningbojoe) November 25, 2015

@PeterDutton_MP peter was warned sending women and kids to nauru would increase their risk of sexual assault….he sent them anyway. — iz (@izzism) November 25, 2015

@PeterDutton_MP says the man who locks women and children up in overseas prisons. On ya mate. — Ombu (@Ommbuu) November 25, 2015

Unless the woman is seeking asylum, then you return her to persecution. You enable #GenderViolence, no #WhiteRibbon for you @PeterDutton_MP. — Sarah George (@sarahgeorgewa) November 25, 2015

And so we conclude another segment of ‘Why Politicians Probs Shouldn’t Have Twitter’. Ahhh, Internet. Ain’t it lovely?

via Twitter.

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