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Adding to this top piece from @taliaualiitia — in journalistic OPSEC, the "foreigness" of a surname is a vector that fringe communities use to target journos. Here& #39;s an example of where it happened to me... https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1276661248562622464">https://twitter.com/abcnews/s...
I saw it unfold in real-time. I write a story about egregious behavior related to One Nation. That report is posted in closed-networks. Third comment is about how my Vietnamese heritage means I vote Labor. They start to look me up...
They find an opinion piece I wrote for @junkee about racial politics in Western Sydney. They find a front-facing FB profile I use for work and start sharing screenshots. Then one man — bio says he attended "University of Life: School of Hard Knocks" — sends me a private DM...
It& #39;s colorful, to say the least. Starts off professional and critiques my articles and then ends with how I should be deported. I finish work, pour myself a glass of whiskey and beginning writing an epic response. But then I get depressed 400 words in. It& #39;s so fucking exhausting.
I didn& #39;t see this happen white reporters who wrote about the same event. Maybe we can write it off a one off unrelated to racism... the first time. But it keeps happening. Only last week my colleague& #39;s photo, a WoC, was shared as a meme underneath social posts of her BLM story.
It& #39;s not & #39;bout our "feelings". At a fundamental level, it& #39;s poor editorial standards — I get reamed if I spell a location wrong. But mistakes happen. I get it. But if you& #39;re not making an effort with our names because it& #39;s "too hard" or "too complex" what about everything else?
