Christ almighty.
In the film Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen’s clueless reporter deliberately annoys a group of feminists by stating his belief that all squirrels have a bigger brain than women.
While Borat’s views are clearly tongue in cheek and used to get a laugh, it appears that a Polish MEP has actually taken them to heart.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke – an independent MEP with his own political party – is facing repercussions after he said that women “must earn less than men because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent” during a recent debate in the European Parliament.
Given that there are rules in place that prohibit any defamatory, racist or xenophobic language or behaviour being used, Mr Korwin-Mikke will likely be suspended or fined.
After the remarks were made, Socialist MEP Iratxe Garcia-Perez instantly fired back at him by saying that she is “here to defend European women from men like you.”
This isn’t the first time that Korwin-Mikke has done something outrageous in European Parliament.
In 2010, he made a Nazi salute in the chamber and he has also recently compared Europe’s influx of migrants to “excrement”.
Here’s the incredibly heated debate between both politicians.
An argument erupted in European Parliament when a lawmaker made sexist remarks during a debate about equal pay https://t.co/m8m1S1sh9W pic.twitter.com/FTGubJk7mj
— CNN (@CNN) March 3, 2017
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