Pakistan

Journalist shuts down Shaan Taseer spectacularly over anti-feminist comment

Things became ugly when Tahir took offense at Taseer's comment and accused him of not paying his workers

News Desk April 13, 2016

Shaan Taseer. PHOTO: http://pakistanforall.org/

Shaan Taseer, the son of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, landed himself in an unsavoury battle of words with journalist Madiha Tahir on social media, going as far as calling her a "lower class guttersnipe”.

It all began when Taseer posted a news article on Facebook regarding a protest held at Lahore’s Beaconhouse National University (BNU) against the stigmatisation of menstruation and further proceeded to comment, "Unbeknownst to these inbreds less than a per cent of Pakistani women use pads or speak English. This only highlights the class apartheid of a country that these bourgeois are on the top-end of."

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While calling on him to check his privilege, Tahir accused Shaan of neglecting to pay his employees at the Daily Times, founded by his father and published by his brother Shehryar Taseer.

"A Taseer - excruciatingly privileged, buoyed in part due to stolen wages of Daily Times workers - has suddenly remembered class! And just in time to chide women about protests. Irony is dead," she commented.

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Tahir shared screen shots of her conversation with Taseer, who at the end of their back-and-forth,deleted his post.

https://twitter.com/Madi_Hatter/status/720178024109490176

Tahir said that Taseer deleted her comment and then proceeded to post under her photos.

"Madiha you stupid b****. I'm sorry you had to be born to the gutters you were but can I please request you not spew class envy on my wall. Ask your mummy and daddy to teach you some manners," Taseer posted.

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The verbal onslaught did not end there, with Taseer going as far as to call Tahir a "third class filthy disgusting pitiful lower class guttersnipe".

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"I am lower class and have no problem with it. Can you handle it Richie Rich," Tahir retorted.

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Tahir claims that she was treated to such language simply because she had pointed out that the Taseers had neglected to pay their employees.

"Because I pointed out Taseers haven't paid workers after he accused feminists of "class apartheid" & called them "inbred"," she tweeted.

https://twitter.com/Madi_Hatter/status/719982724367454209

COMMENTS (24)

samunder | 8 years ago | Reply Another day another rich feminist protest, ask these girls how they treat their maid servants? are not even allowed to sit on the same table.

Ramiz | 8 years ago | Reply If Madiha is right, why did she disable her account?

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Anti Feminist | 8 years ago | Reply Extreme form of feminism is equal to terrorism.FEMINISM IS EGOISTIC.Asian/Brown feminists try to follow the footsteps of White women,who already have rights equal to men in the United States,and now they want to surpass it.For instance,in every music video of American female singers like Lady Gaga or Christina Aguilera they brutally harass men,and then they claim that men have more rights from them.That`s insane.Proud to be an Anti Feminist.

Hasan | 8 years ago | Reply A case in point that a son's deeds do not necessarily equal the good of his father; time for the gentleman to do some self-reflection. As for the lady, more power to self expression; for no one has the right to silence another. You don't like what someone has to say, walk away.

S. Khan | 8 years ago | Reply This feminist posted something about 'the cool people that make isloo light up', that appears to have triggered shaan to anger. She appears to show signs of some obsession or hate towards the rich. Like all rich people are corrupt and falsely claim to be 'privileged'. What a way to paint everyone with the same colour. It is because of this fear that many well-to-do people are leaving this country away from the infuriated and jealous sadists like Ms. Tahir.

omar | 8 years ago | Reply its Taseer who shut down this stupid women rather then other way round.

Muhibullah | 8 years ago | Reply All of these people come off as utter turds, including the snotty rich girls with the idiotic sanitary pads "protest".

Pakistan Zindabad | 8 years ago | Reply @Mujtaba: Elites sneezes. Make news.

Pakistan Zindabad | 8 years ago | Reply @Bystander: I think the same way..

Pakistan Zindabad | 8 years ago | Reply As a general opinion. It was not good. But for specific people and reason, i am with Shan.

Ahmed | 8 years ago | Reply Got to agree with Shan here. People who think it's "cool" for women to exhibit their "mensturation pads" in public, need therapy. Why don't they go out and defecate in public -- it's a perfectly natural process. All the animals do that, why can't we? There are some things you just don't do in public. Putting up mensturation pads, is one of them!

SaneVoice | 8 years ago | Reply Not a fan of FemiNazis, but i'll back Madiha here. Shaan is outright rude and insolent, he is only a depiction of how this so called "privileged class" view it self, thinking how they are better than every one else is how they go around in their sordid lives.

Haji Atiya | 8 years ago | Reply @Parvez: Exactly. Instead, and as they say in German: "Backpfeifengesicht", a face in need of a good punch.

Sana | 8 years ago | Reply Ok I know shaan is highly intolerant of anyone's views but his own and he sounds like an ignorant person who fights like a 2 year old. But how is this Facebook fight news? No one cares about the garbage that leaves his mouth. Maliha probably took this way personally and used her contacts in press to take this fight to another level. Can u 3 year olds please act like grown ups?

Parvez | 8 years ago | Reply Shaan Taseer learned little from his father.....or did he learn too much......either way it has not helped him, he should have come across as the bigger person....sadly he did not.

Really? | 8 years ago | Reply Both parties are wrong - just like all of us Pakistanis. Don't understand what was reason behind this protest. Also, why Taseer had to get involved. Can Tahir list where in the canonical text does it say that female periods are a disease? Finally, why a banter between two folks is worthy of national news? Seriously immature news media. Why did I even read it. So, I'm actually at fault. LESSON LEARNED :(

ShamelessPakistanis | 8 years ago | Reply Two idiots fighting!

ssh | 8 years ago | Reply They have both proven themselves to be from lower middle class upstart background, no class.

Ali | 8 years ago | Reply @Mujtaba I think stories like these are very relevant because the members of the Taseer family regularly run for public office and we need to know their real personalities. The fact that he can refer to a woman in such a way because she is not as rich as him is unacceptable. @UK: Couldn't agree more. I don't support rich families using loopholes to avoid paying taxes to the government and salaries to their staff.

Brainy Bhaijan | 8 years ago | Reply Popcorn time..

UK | 8 years ago | Reply Taseers have always been extremely corrupt family, in their business dealings as well as in politics. This behaviour is just an extension of their corruption. Salman Taseer's murder was wrong and can never justified, but now that his killer is hanged, and justice served. Its time to take "victim" privilege away from this family and expose how corrupt they are.

Bystander | 8 years ago | Reply Sorry but Shaan is right

Ali Rizvi | 8 years ago | Reply But there is nothing wrong with what Shaan Taseer said. He only stated facts.

Mujtaba | 8 years ago | Reply How did this even qualify to being a news? I do not approve Shan's behaviour at all. But somebody explain this to me that how does this qualify to be a news? Slow news day?

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