Aboriginal Memes Facebook
The page claimed it was meant as a joke and therefore isn t to be considered racist.
Aboriginal memes facebook. Shut down aboriginal memes. March 29 2020 in briefings publications we first tackled online racism against indigenous australians back in 2012. The page titled aboriginal memes features photos of aboriginal people alongside.
A facebook page funnyabomemes id 534831416587129 was promoting racist content in the form of aboriginal memes and racist statements from the administrator. Shut down aboriginal memes. Aboriginal memes on facebook.
Details are on ohpi s facebook page. Facebook removed the content from the aboriginal memes facebook page on wednesday after a barrage of complaints were lodged with the social network the australian communications and media. It seems some people just don t get it.
Facebook is facing a barrage of criticism in australia over a page that many users see as overtly racist. If you want to put a stop to it please report the page. A forum for discussing issues surrounding racism in social media.
Labeling something as humour does not give it an exemption from being racist. Images of a race of people who are proud custodians of the earth s most ancient culture. 9 336 likes 141 talking about this.
The aboriginal memes 2014 facebook page was created on january 9th 2014 and was unpublished by facebook on january 27th. 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. A forum for discussing issues surrounding racism in social media.
Current status updated 24 august 8 30am melbourne time a new aboriginal memes page was created on august 23rd the day before the launch of australia s national anti racism strategy. Most importantly some of these memes became the catalysts for people to begin to engage and take a deeper look at indigenous issues in australia. There was a period from around 2012 to 2016 when most of these memes were born and really sent aboriginal facebook pages like blackfulla revolution into overdrive.
