If we could have one week go by where someone doesn’t do something super racist that would be absolutely fucking amazing, but, apparently, since this is Australia, that’s just too much to ask.
Between some fuckhead throwing a banana at Eddie Betts and some bizarrely misinformed mum deciding proudly posting on Facebook about putting her kid in blackface would be a super great idea, it has already been a pretty grim month for racism in the country.
Now some dickhead has decided to take to Wi-Fi names as a new and interesting format for racism, singling out Indigenous people that hang out around the corner of Smith and Stanley Street in Melbourne‘s Fitzroy.
Thanks to the sheer number of Wi-Fi networks in the area they’ve not been able to determine who it is, but the shitlord in question thought it would a laugh and a half to name their network “BoongCorner” – using an offensive term for someone of Aboriginal descent.
The area is important as a meeting place for members of the Indigenous community and has has served for a meeting place for people who have nowhere else to go.
Indigenous woman Jody Beeton says she was shocked things like this still happen:
“It breaks my heart that in this day and age this type of thing is still happening. At some point you’ve got to hope that human beings will unite.”
Victoria Police are working to try and locate the offending wireless router, hopefully someone decides to go after the asshole responsible using section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act before the Libs have it repealed.
Source: The Age.
Photo: Google Maps.
