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Trolling the AFL with racism and misogyny
June 23 2016: WIN! This page has been removed, but additional problems exist. For an update on this story, see our AFL Memes Update. The AFL Memes page (ID: 258629594224050) has been around since March 2012 and currently has 196,334 supporters. It’s address is https://www.facebook.com/TrollAFL1 clearly identifying it as a trolling page. Trolling occurs in social media…
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Responding to Racism and Vigilante Justice
Senator Nova Peris OAM is an Indigenous Australian, a Senator for the Norther Territory in the Australian Parliament and an Olympic gold medalist. We’re hoping we listed that in the order she would consider most important. It is worth noting she was also the first Indigenous Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal. A few days ago she…
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Blackface and Social Media
Over the last few hours the picture below of what appears to be a couple of Indigenous Australians in traditional dress has been causing serious outrage on social media and started to be picked up by the news media. The reason for this outrage is that neither of the people pictured are Indigenous, further, their…
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Survivor Island 3: What can we learn from the incident
Last week, racism against Aboriginal Australians in digital spaces plumbed new depths as news came out of an online game included killing of Aboriginal Australians as a game plotline, awarding the players for successfully killing them. The game has since been removed from Apple and Google Play store but not before a huge backlash in the…
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Report Hate against Indigenous Australians on Twitter
Hate against Indigenous Australians is rife on Twitter. Here we share some examples of abusive and hateful comments made against the Indigenous Australian communities. Under the garb of humour, they present Indigenous Australians as unintelligent, drunk and incite violence against them. We share the link below each example. Please report them to Twitter and to…
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Report racist video “Flubba Bubba noonga”
In this briefing, we draw attention to the YouTube video Flubba Bubba noonga that is promoting racist stereotypes of Australia’s aboriginal community. The video is a rap song by two performers. Both the get-up of the singers and the lyrics of the song seek to humiliate Indigenous Australians and deny them their right to human…
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Where do trolls come from and how do we stop their cyberbullying?
The Online Hate Prevention Institute has been fielding a number of media questions about online trolling and abuse in recent days. We’ve discussed the issue on radio this week with 3AW’s Tom Elliott and K-Rock’s Hunter McLeod. There are number of types of online trolling we deal with at the Online Hate Prevention Institute and…
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Report YouTube video “Noonga Talk”
“Noonga Talk” is a racist YouTube video promoting hateful stereotypes of Aboriginal Australians. It was uploaded on July 5, 2009 and has been viewed 3,720 times. The video makes a thin pretence at humour but given its racist premise is insulting and offensive to the Australian Aboriginal community. The stereotypes promoted by the video include…
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Report “Adam Goodes for the Flog of the Year” Page
The controversy around the persistent booing of Adam Goodes has dominated the AFL championship this year. Naturally, this is reflected on social media where we can see Facebook pages both supporting Adam Goodes and vilifying him. In this briefing, we examine some of the arguments used by supporters of anti-Adam Goodes pages to justify their…
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Success! OHPI gets hate removed
On Harmony Day, March 21, 2015, we initiated a social media campaign asking our supporters to report three hateful images on Facebook. One was antisemitic, another anti-Muslim and the third image was anti-Aboriginal. A big thanks to all our supporters who participated in the campaign by reporting the images to both Facebook and to our…