Aboriginal Memes
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Aboriginal Memes on Facebook
We first tackled online racism against Indigenous Australians back in 2012. At that time, the problem was on Facebook – as a number of pages had been created encouraging the creation and sharing of racist memes targeting Indigenous Australians. After a bumpy start, Facebook has got far better at tackling this problem, but the issue…
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Racism Against Indigenous Australians on Instagram
Instagram not only hosts racist content, but entire accounts dedicated to sharing racist memes and which encourage others to do the same.
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Campaign on Racism against Indigenous Australians
Through March 2020 the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) will be running a campaign tackling racism against Indigenous Australians. While we’ve been working on this problem since we were established 8 years ago, this is the first month long campaign proactively tackling the problem. Join us by taking action! You can help the campaign in…
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Emboldening those promoting bigotry
Yesterday we warned that a bill introduced to the Senate on Wednesday by the Government was seeking to water down Australia’s laws against racial discrimination to promote the interests of those who want bigotry to be more lawful in Australia so they can abuse vulnerable minorities without consequence. Our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, previously told the Parliamentary…
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Update on AFL Memes
Following our briefing on AFL Memes and our e-mail to Facebook, the two worst examples from the page were removed on June 3rd. Ten day’s later the page itself was closed. The same people, however, have another AFL Memes page with another Adam Goodes meme is still online. The page is Troll AFL [ID: 395819680601992] and has 21,923…
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NRL Memes
On May 31st the NRL Memes page (ID: 349532781801156) which has 196,542 supporters posted a meme using a picture of a gorilla with the message R.I.P. Sam Thaiday. The Gorilla is Harambe from Cincinnati Zoo, who had just been shot and killed by the Zoo as part of an effort to rescue a child who fell into the…
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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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OHPI attends RDA@40
OHPI attended the conference RDA@40 in Sydney on February 19 and 20, 2015 organised the Australian Human Rights Commission. The conference was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the passing of the Racial Discriminate Act (RDA), and was a part of year long celebrations being planned by the Commission. The conference looked at both…
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Racism against First Nations
OHPI stands against racism. You can see a detailed list of all our publications on online racism here. However, we take a particular interest in campaigning against online hate against First Nations. Below is a list of our publications and campaigns documenting, reporting and highlighting instances of online hate speech against First Nations. You can…
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Racism
One of the most significant forms of hate speech that OHPI combats is online racism. The Macquarie Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2013) defines racism as: noun 1. the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule…