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Wong-Tung, who is Chinese-Samoan, subsequently received a barrage of criticism on social media. A prominent comment on the Facebook page of the National Party Meme Working Group, which is the page that originally posted the anti-Ardern memes, compared Wong-Tung to an “ape.”
Collins Tuesday morning didn’t seem concerned.
“These things happen. We don’t worry about it,” he told the media.
When asked if social media was getting out of hand and if the attacks were getting too loud, the opposition leader let others judge.
“People will draw their own conclusions about it, they will draw their own conclusions. I don’t deal with them.”
She said she was not interested in talking about her family and was instead focused on her work. Collins also reiterated that he would not have shared the photos that Wong-Tung had.
“Those are not my actions and I would not have done it. I’m sure you will understand.”
On Monday, the National Party leader described her husband as “one of the least sexist people” she knows and who “gets tired of people standing up to him and me.”
“He’s married to me, how could he be sexist?
“He’s an adult, he’ll make his own decisions and you know, let’s put it this way: I don’t have to answer for him because I haven’t been able to control him for 41 years.
“If you have the secret of how you can control a man who is 64 years old, used to play a lot of rugby and was a policeman, good luck let me know.”
Before sharing the memes, Wong-Tung, who is normally kept out of the limelight, was probably best known as the director of Oravida.
