Stan Grant quits the ABC’s Q+A.
, is stepping down, citing exhaustion from the torrent of racist abuse to which he has been subjected on social media, especially in the wake of his contribution to the public broadcaster’s coverage of the coronation of King Charles III.
“On social media my family and I are regularly racially mocked or abused,” he wrote in his column on Friday. “This is not new. Barely a week goes by when I am not racially targeted. My wife is targeted with abuse for being married to a Wiradjuri man. While observing that the mainstream media was not without blame for the state of discourse, having “turned public discussion into an amusement park”, he saved his strongest criticism for social media, which he said, “at its worst, is a sordid spectacle. A grotesque burlesque. Lives are reduced to mockery and ridicule.
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