Osman Faruqi

Osman Faruqi (born c. 1990) is an Australian journalist, formerly for Junkee and for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He is the son of politician Mehreen Faruqi, a member of the Greens, and has himself run as a one of their candidates.

Quotes

• Mediocre white people: they should be in the bin but instead they own everything and are every fucking where.
  • 26 December 2016 as reported 20 November 2017 by ABC

• The white people are getting fucked Yas, it's happening
  • 28 July 2017

• it's time for white people to take a back seat. Politics has moved on. Step back.
  • 11 November 2016, as reported 31 October 2017 by The Guardian

• This case has always been about reaffirming the principle that all Australians should be able to participate in public debate without being denigrated and accused of supporting heinous crimes like terrorism because of their background
  • "Mark Latham agrees to pay damages to ABC's Osman Faruqi in defamation case", The Guardian (Australia, 26 November 2018)
  • Former Labor leader Mark Latham, who became a member of Pauline Hanson's One Nation – New South Wales in November 2018, had agreed to settle after being sued for defamation by Osman Faruqi.

• I feel so sad. We begged you to stop amplifying and normalising hatred and racism. But you told us we were 'politically correct' and 'freedom of speech' was more important. The more you gave the far-right a platform, the more powerful they got. We begged you.
  • Tweet (14 March 2019)