{"id":191576,"date":"2025-09-01T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191576\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:45:15","slug":"anti-immigration-protesters-slammed-after-dining-at-yum-cha-restaurant-following-sydney-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191576\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-immigration protesters slammed after dining at yum cha restaurant following Sydney rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-immigration<\/a> protesters have drawn criticism after being spotted dining at a yum cha restaurant after the rally.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets for the March For Australia demonstrations in Sydney<\/a>, Melbourne<\/a>, Adelaide<\/a>, Brisbane<\/a> and Canberra<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

One photo shared on social media showed three people with Australian flags seated inside a yum cha restaurant in Sydney\u2019s CBD.<\/p>\n

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The image quickly drew ridicule online.<\/p>\n

\u201cLOL \u2026. Such hypocrisy,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cMulticulturalism has gone too far, pass the soy sauce,\u201d another commented sarcastically.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll take the sweet and sour pork and get out of me country!\u201d a third joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re literally the same as the MAGAs we have in the US Global hypocrisy,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese<\/a> meal and his Chinese-made flag! My man is doing his part for the Chinese economy,\u201d one commenter added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t want immigration you don\u2019t get the benefits of that,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n

\"ProtestersProtesters during the March for Australia anti-immigration rally in Sydney, Sunday, August 31, 2025. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n

But some defended the protesters, arguing it showed they were not opposed to immigration altogether, only to high levels of intake.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is put up as hypocrisy, but backfires because it\u2019s evidence they\u2019re not anti-immigration, just mass immigration, which is what the rally purported to be,\u201d one person argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaying we need to massively slow immigration doesn\u2019t mean you hate Asians. It just means you think Australians should have a chance of getting their own home, before we import more yoga instructors and dog walkers,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see the conflict here. I know Asians who think the immigration levels are off the charts. It\u2019s not black and white,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n

Western Sydney University Professor Gregory Noble said the photo revealed \u201ca degree of irony at least and hypocrisy at worst\u201d, but argued a deeper issue was at play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt reflects a lack of understanding of Australia\u2019s past and its reliance on immigration as a nation- and economy-building strategy since British colonisation,\u201d Noble said.<\/p>\n

He added that while some people may have legitimate concerns about immigration, their voices were overshadowed by far-right groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t clear whether there was a consensus amongst those marching about that they see as the problem and why,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also evidence of the growing public boldness of the radical right in Australia, and their use of Trump-like strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ProtestorsProtestors gather out side Flinders Street Station during the March for Australia anti-immigration rally in Melbourne, Sunday, August 31, 2025. Credit: AAP<\/p>\n

Monash University Associate Professor Ben Wellings said the protest reflected a wider mistrust of established politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe anti-immigration protests appeared to draw together groups and individuals with a wide range of views but many of whom share some sort of mistrust of established politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis anger and disaffection \u2014 sometimes based on misinformation \u2014 can be spread via social media which amplifies outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) said it had \u201cofficially distanced itself\u201d from the March for Australia, claiming the tone set by organisers invited infiltration from extreme groups.<\/p>\n

SPA National President Peter Strachan said he and others were discouraged from attending the rally \u201cbecause of the likelihood that its agenda would be hijacked by a small group of unsavoury and noisy nationalists\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cA survey shows that while most Australians like immigration, they think that the numbers are too high,\u201d Strachan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent pace of net overseas migration at over 350,000 per year is well above the sustainable 70,000 per year that worked well over the four decades leading to 2003.<\/p>\n

The SPA\u2019s concerns focus on the environment, water security, cost of living and the housing crisis.<\/p>\n

It supports reducing the overall immigration intake, but not ending it entirely.<\/p>\n

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