Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: ‘No one’s feeling safe’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/06/indigenous-australians-racist-social-media-messages-ntwnfb
Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: ‘No one’s feeling safe’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/06/indigenous-australians-racist-social-media-messages-ntwnfb
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Why is it so fucking hard to just leave people alone? I don’t know about you, but I’m too busy worring about actual fucking life to be going out of my way to hate on anyone.
It’s not just indigenous it’s happening with the queer community as well.
They feel empowered to hate.
People are just fucked in the head.
Someone makes a choice to do something bad (like the racists), then call them fuck heads and a cancer on society.
Someone born a particular way (race, gender, sexuality) then just fucking leave them alone unless they make a bad choice like above. But only call them out on their bad choice, don’t bring other shit into it.
Seems like hate speech laws don’t actually cover the obvious hate speech happening to Australians 😰.
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But when one dares to say that Australia is racist, Australia asks “why would you say that???”
Yes it’s awful, but racism worse now than ever?
Bit of a stretch there
Sure social media means it can be easier to see/hear but real world used to be far different.
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Literally every post on facebook depicting Indigenous Australians has awful, terrible comments. It might just be a kid who has won an award or something. It’s disgusting.
It’s fucked
Sadly there are just people out there who derive some sick sense of enjoyment out of making people feel miserable.
They find any opportunity & exploit it, be it race, religion, ethnicity, height, weight, gender, sexual orientation, anything really, it’s fucked that we can’t just treat people with decency.
Block them and don’t use a single brain cell thinking about them. Though I’m not sure why a lot of Australians hate aboriginals..
The comments you see online with anything involving aboriginals are horrible, but
>Lidia Thorpe says racism has ‘never been this bad’
this is clearly ridiculous. While I’m sure there’s an uptick with the recent rise of the far-right, and the visibility is more than ever now due to social media and anonymous comments, the idea that we’re more racist now than when we didn’t even recognise them as part of our population, they couldn’t vote, we were stealing their children and literally massacring them, is a bit silly.
I can see from her perspective it’s probably worse than ever for her as a public figure who is regularly receiving these messages and facing threats, but I don’t think it’s a reasonable pronouncement of the overall state of things. Perhaps it’s a poor selection of quote from the Guardian to lead with though, as in the article she seems to mostly be talking about her personal situation.
It’s a national shame. We love you, we see you, we’re here fighting with you ❤️
We Aussies are a bunch of racists, to be honest. I doubt anyone in these comments has ever been to the NT, let alone remote communities, but it’s appalling how they’re expected to live. Our society has absolutely failed blackfellas across the board, yet every whitefella froths at the mouth about how privileged they are. It’s disgusting and embarrassing.
It also makes mob not even bother engaging in good faith.
In a recent thread, there was a discussion about how toxic patriarchal rules in Aboriginal culture can be. I spoke about how it changes from group to group and mine is matriarchal. More than one decided to try to challenge me on this, calling me a liar.. it was just weird.
Unfortunately the Voice debate and the rise of One Nation, and their racism based ideology, has increased the willingness for these dickheads in being vocal online.
So I can’t be bothered engaging, it’s tiring and draining and what’s the point. I wont ever change their bigoted mind so why bother. So I laugh at them instead.
With the public education system failing and more public money used to fund private schools, sadly I can’t see this getting better.
Educating future generations is the key to changing these disgusting attitudes.
I’m living in the Shire and at one stage it had a bad reputation with the Cronulla riots and I think nobody much wants to remember that. Most Shire people now are very decent and I haven’t noticed any bad behaviour or racist nonsense that could hurt anybody. For some reason Trump seems to think that Australians are less than human. And everyone suffers because of his reactionary attitude to others, I think, whom he feels are beneath him.
At my job we have to ask if callers are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. The amount of people who reply ‘no I’m normal’ is fucking shocking.
They dont even hide it they say all these racist things and on their profiles its LNP/ONP support badges and posts.
This is happening on every single indigenous related post for years.
Do we have to wait until thousands more people commit suicide over it before we act?
I think people forget how recent the stolen generation really was.it didn’t end until the 70s. I’m 22 and my mum was born 76, im not indigenous myself but I’d I was and she was taken as a baby it’s only one generation removed. There are people in their 50s onwards that were directly impacted by this and can remember it. Intergenerational trauma is a real thing, it’s why many youth don’t trust social workers, government and police because look at what they did to their parents/ grandparents/ great grandparents. They represent 37% of incarcerated people in our prisons despite only being 3% of the population, they struggle with alcohol because they never had access to it until the Brits came and then many fell into using it to cope with trauma, it’s not their fault.