I work as the social media producer for Q+A and have seen the things some of you write about Stan Grant. If you knew what your relatives and close friends are saying behind the comfort of their screen, you would be horrified, writes Neryssa Azlan.
Politicians and public figures call out Twitter and call it a cesspool, but for the hundreds of vile comments that appear on Twitter, there are thousands more on Facebook and YouTube and other platforms.
Or maybe the algorithms that keep people in their bubble, especially ones like Facebook where there's hardly any accountability since it's not so public-facing. Sometimes the people who commit acts of racism are people you love — and isn't it a true testimony of how much you care for a person when you support them to become better people instead of enabling or ignoring bad behaviour?Some people have this idea that racism is a thing of the past because they don't see the aggressive kinds of racism or segregation happening at the same scale.
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