racism
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Hate on the Rise in Victoria
The Herald Sun today reported on the “Rise of online hate speech” in Victoria. Here’s some highlights from the article and our commentary. As the only charity in the country dedicated to this issue we’d be happy to provide the Herald Sun or any other paper with commentary for any future articles on this topic…
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Understanding the harm in hate speech
The Illinois Times references the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s work when discussing how to combat online hate speech.
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The Far Right on African Youth
Far Right groups have jumped on the bank wagon of anti-African sentiment. Some are expressing it as anti-refugee sentiment, other as pure racism against people with dark skin, while a third group seek to present it as another version of “Muslim extremism”. Here’s a few examples of what we’ve seen: Case 1: Racism The Reclaim…
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How neo-Nazis exploit Instagram to spread antisemitic memes
Religiouseader.org cites our work investigating the ‘antisemitic meme of a Jew’ in the context of Neo-Nazis using Instagram to spread their beliefs.
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It’s Actually Illegal To Be Racist On The Internet
Our CEO Andre Oboler talks to HuffPost about the legality of spreading hate-speech online.
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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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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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Report antisemitic YouTube video “History of Multiculturalism”
It is heartbreaking to find classic racism and antisemitism on the Internet. Scholars around the world have written tomes battling racism from scientific, social, cultural and historical contexts, laws have been coded to expunge them from society, and community bodies have dedicated incredible time and effort around the world to combat them. Yet, we encounter YouTube…
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How to respond to online racism
In today’s The Conversation (a platform for academics to share research on issues of public interest) psychologists Emma Thomas and Anne Pedersen, discuss how should we, as bystanders, respond to racist behaviour. (Both Thomas and Pedersen teach psychology at the Murdoch University). Their article uses the context of the booing of Adam Goodes to discuss why responding…
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Attending the Advancing Community Cohesion conference
On July 16 and 17th, OHPI participated in the Advancing Community Cohesion conference at the University of Western Sydney. The conference was opened by the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. Over the next two days, here’s short description of the speakers and what they spoke about: Associate Professor Anne Aly spoke on violence extremism. She dissected, and rejected as overly…