A shocking video of a tram traveller cursing at another passenger who was reading a book on China’s Chairman Mao has surfaced online.
Social internet video shows a guy holding a can of raspberry cider while yelling at the Sydney bookworm about political correctness after learning how to say the name of the iconic Communist.
“Do you imagine there are 50 different genders?” The guy with the hat mocks the reader. Mao may be recognised as a dog, right? Oh, woof!
The passenger doesn’t seem to be phased by him and chooses to ignore him by remaining silent in response.
The boisterous commuter adds, “And if you say anything against it, you’re a f**king racist, homophobe,” as other commuters attempt to tune him out. 50 million different genders.
The spray is interrupted by a little youngster in a stroller making animal sounds.
Before having an apparent change of heart, the ranter then seems to threaten to hit the commuter in the head: “I’ll punch your skull in when we get off, dude.”
“God bless you, man. God bless you. You may believe anything you want, but my family and I have experienced it. Communism is ineffective,’
The reader then sets down his book, Mao’s Great Hunger—a nonfiction work on how the Communist revolution caused famine and bloodshed in China—in order to pick up his phone.
The cider-wielding passenger persisted in complaining that book readers were “privileged.” Because we are white, we will make socialism work, he continued.
Many people who saw the original video online were absolutely perplexed and commended the book reader for maintaining his composure.
Another person said, “(This) man is simply not even replying to him, not giving him the revenge he wants.”
You think (the reader) is flexing his right calf to show off and establish dominance? One more joked.