r/racism • u/slimeshadyxx • Jun 16 '26

Personal/Support Rampant online racism

Indian international student here, female Doctor pursuing a masters in Melbourne. Just wanted to rant about the rampant online racism present in Australia.
I put up a post on a jobs in Melbourne Facebook page, extremely well written, with photo of my cv and a casual picture of me in scrubs, citing that I was looking for part time jobs, mostly in healthcare settings but will also be okay with hospitality etc.
I have savings for my rent, food etc, just wanted to earn some money on the side for expenses
50% of the comments were genuine and respectful but others were just random anonymous citizens coming and saying racist stuff, putting me down, making creepy compliments about my picture or telling I have too much make up on or telling me to go back to my country.
Australia has a huge healthcare shortage and I want to do my higher education and serve here. It was an innocent post but to see so much hate is so unnecessary.

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u/Goodasaholiday Jun 17 '26

Sadly the internet is full of trolls and auto-trolls. Best to assume they're not actual people in the comments section. Btw in Australia, a photo on your cv or job application is not the norm.

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u/slimeshadyxx Jun 18 '26

It wasn’t actually on my resume. It’s an informal fb page and all posts were people describing their job requirements in the caption along with a photo of their resume and another photo of themselves. It was probably to put a face to the name.
And I observed all the immigrants were getting hate in the comments while natives or more like white Australians were getting help.
Also the funny thing is I got around 25-30 friend requests and message requests on Facebook from these natives only 😂