Loud, proud and in your face racism is all-too-common in the States, especially when you see the racist backlash in response to <i>The Little Mermaid</i>, <i>House Of The Dragon</i> and <i>Rings Of Power</i>. But racism in Australia can often be more insidious because of its casual nature.
This TikToker Is Explaining Why Australia’s Racism Is So Much More Insidious When Compared To The USA
By this point, we’ve started to see a predictable cycle of racist backlash in response to increased persity whenever a beloved story gets rebooted or adapted to the big screen.
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While these so-called ‘fans’ — better known as toxic trolls — have attempted to mask their racism behind arguments such as “it’s disrespecting the source material” or “it’s too woke”, their negative intentions are all too transparent for the world to see.
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For example, Kelly Marie Tran, the first woman of colour to be cast as a lead in a Star Wars movie, constantly faced racist and hateful messages on the internet, making her leave social media in 2018.
It’s an exhausting cycle of racism that is underpinned by unapologetic white supremacy — or, in the simplest terms: I am better than you and you cannot, and will not, replace me.
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Interestingly, this sort of proud, loud and in your face racism — which is very common in the States — is not as common in Australia. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist, but the way that racism is presented here can often be more insidious because of its casual nature.
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It’s even worse when your parents mistake it for a compliment.
Words don’t have to be used either. It could be as simple as someone clutching their handbag as you approach them or having shopkeepers watch your every move, even though you’ve done nothing to warrant that.
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While microaggressions may seem insignificant to those who have never experienced them, these casual comments and throwaway actions have a huge impact on POCs. Why? Because they are constant and slowly chip away at your self-worth.
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This, combined with the ‘importance’ of upholding Australia’s ‘chill, laidback’ culture, is what contributes to this country’s lack of awareness when it comes to casual racism.
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TikToker Allyssa Ablon explains this in more detail, using Netflix's reboot of Heartbreak High — which has gained a legion of fans for its perse and authentic characters — as a prime example of how racism is practiced culturally in Australia versus the USA.
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The TikToker wrote, “Me simping for how an Australian show didn’t make a big deal about casting an Indian-Australian lead.”
But as Allyssa points out, that sort of loud racist outrage — often seen by the likes of Pauline Hanson — is seen as humiliating and embarrassing in Australia.
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Pauline Hanson is an Australian politician who once wore a burqa to parliament to protest full-face coverings in public. She was widely condemned for her actions.
Racists in Australia would never voice their disapproval of perse casting seen in the likes of Heartbreak High, House Of The Dragon, TheLittle Mermaid and more. Instead, they would rely on these casual and constant microaggressions to communicate their racism, all while maintaining that all-too-familiar chill demeanour that people associate with Australians.
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And if POCs dare to call them out on their behaviour, they are immediately told to “lighten up” or that “it was just a joke”. Because, remember, Australians are chill and some people will do everything in their power to maintain that as a way of masking their racist behaviour and making it harder to call it out.
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Allyssa described the existence of racism in Australia as “subtle” and “covert” and many in the comments of her TikTok agreed with her, with several immigrants noting the prevalence of offensive or backhanded jokes.
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Speaking further with Allyssa, she believes the key difference between racism in Australia and the USA is their underpinning ideologies.
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“The messaging in America is ‘make American great again’ and ‘you will not replace us’,” Allyssa tells BuzzFeed Australia. “These messages demonstrate a yearning for a time in their country’s history of unapologetic white supremacy. These people believe that America was at its greatest when white people overwhelmingly held power and everyone else existed under their rule.”
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“Meanwhile, the underpinning ideology that informs racism in Australia today is a firm belief that racism is either ‘over’, that it was never ‘as bad as America’ or that it never existed here at all. The Australian education system, government and media are very invested in pushing this propaganda that ‘Australia is a multicultural country’ and focusing on that idea without acknowledging past atrocities enough. In the US, it’s basically impossible to acknowledge that slavery didn’t happen.”
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Australians take pride in the fact that they live in a multicultural country — but that self-identity alone has contributed to a superiority complex whereby everyday Aussies genuinely believe that they are somehow better and less racist than Americans.
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This line of thinking not only disregards the attempted genocide of Aboriginal peoples by the Australian government (as well as a long list of other atrocities committed against First Nations peoples), but enables racists to hide under this guise of multiculturalism — in that, Australia is a multicultural place, so I can’t possibly be racist and you can’t possibly be calling me out for racism. We’re nothing like the States!
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As Allyssa puts it, there is a great deal of national pride in this chill, multicultural Australian identity, which, at the end of the day, enables casual racism to thrive.
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“This ‘chill’ culture of wanting to be laid-back and not ‘make a fuss’ allows racists to spew their vitriol under the guise of a ‘joke’. It turns friends or allies into accomplices of racism by enforcing this behaviour of being complicit instead of standing up for your friends of colour.”
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So, how does Australia break the status quo and move past its chill mentality when it comes to racism? There’s no one answer, but Allyssa said that a way forward could be to rebrand casual racism in a way that makes it embarrassing to engage it.
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“For me, a great example of this type of rebrand was calling a ‘King Hit’ a ‘Coward Punch’ because it immediately turns it from something that sounded cool or powerful into something actually shameful and embarrassing.”
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“It could be very cool to see Australians take the ‘chill’ culture that is currently allowing racism to thrive unchecked and use it to call out racial microaggressions with the same level of unbothered ‘chill’ energy.”
If you want to learn more about casual racism in Australia, be sure to watch Allyssa’s TikTok and follow her account for more pop culture breakdowns.
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