Yassmin Adbed-Magied does it again with controversial comments

Yassmin Abdel-Magied certainly created outrage on social media over a comment she made on Facebook on Anzac Day earlier this year.

Posting the traditional words Lest We Forget, the former ABC presenter then added in brackets – Manus.Nauru.Syria.Palestine.

The comments caused such a backlash at the time. Her show was cancelled and she left Australia for the UK, claiming she was traumatised by Australia’s hate toward her.

It seems that experience hasn’t stopped her making comments about Remembrance Day. 

Taking to Twitter yesterday she’s made an almost identical comment, instead this time the #LestWeForget only included the extra word Manus, with a link to post from the UN Refugee Agency.

https://twitter.com/yassmin_a/status/929160350414589952

She also go the same response from the world about the comment.

“Absolutely disgraceful. I’m convinced now that your point is to be disrespectful and distasteful,” one person wrote, while others described her as being self-centred and using the comments for a publicity stunt.

The need to be relevant, look at moi… look at moi… #whoareyou??

— Brad Todd (@bradtodd30) November 11, 2017

😮🖕 Clearly you are incapable of learning.

— sᴉɹɹǝℲ ǝllǝɥɔoɹ (@OzEcology) November 11, 2017

Stop making respectless comments and 1s which display a lack of critical thinking which are made with the sole intention of angering many who feel understandably that you are comparing the sacrifice of men in defence of freedom & then playing the victim when you are criticised

— David caplan (@realdavidcaplan) November 11, 2017

Prefer we all forget you.

— Top Un Crypto (@TopUn69) November 11, 2017

With some of the replies Yassmin was also reminded about the apology she made for her Anzac Day comments. She not only amended the post that time but she said it was brought to her attention that what she wrote then was disrespectful, and apologised unreservedly.

https://twitter.com/GidonGoodman/status/929288764379353089

https://twitter.com/YeahTheBuijs/status/929227956743892992

She did have some supporters for her post, but there were even a few who admitted to being on her side previously, weren’t this time.

https://twitter.com/esseeeayeenn/status/929312870554148864

https://twitter.com/TrondheimHatter/status/929340447528329216

What do you think? Should we pay attention to her comments?