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The Herald Sun is Melbourne’s leading trash tabloid newspaper. With headlines like “Chinese Virus Panda-monium”, they were stoking racist sentiment long before

The Herald Sun is Melbourne’s leading trash tabloid newspaper. With headlines like “Chinese Virus Panda-monium”, they were stoking racist sentiment long before Trump did. Another example of how openly racist they are is when they published and defended this cartoon of Serena Williams: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e062f6c7325e5b96b12c306e91e1e25e?width=1024 https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/e062f6c7325e5b96b12c306e... And just today, the Daily Telegraph (the Sydney paper with the same owner) reported the closing of the Victorian border with the headline “Mexicans Shut Out” (Victoria sits on the southern border of New South Wales): https://twitter.com/echewy/status/1280285466521034752 https://twitter.com/echewy/status/1280285466521034752 Definitely view their content from this frame of reference.

lachstarx 6y ago
None of those things are racist... It's part of Australian culture to have a laugh and poke fun at things. You need to view these things in an appropriate cultural context. Painting an entire group of people as racist makes you kind of a bigot tbh. Not a good look.
hnick 6y ago
The papers are trash but complaints against the last one seem misguided. The phrase itself is just a reference to 'south of the border', and I've heard people in both states use it as a light-hearted joke to refer to Victorians. It has been used for many years in a non-racist context as a play on words. Though it does straddle the line a bit, I think it was worth clearing up that it's not just a reference to shutting borders.