Aboriginal Comments NOT ALLOWED on Daily Mail

I’m not a big reader of the British tabloid newspaper Daily Mail, but one thing that I give them credit for, is that they allow readers to post their own comments on almost every article. Other big media outlets often don’t allow it, for example, the ABC, although I do remember a time when they did have comments open on some articles. But obviously, people like commenting. It makes them feel like they can express their views.

On the Daily Mail, you can comment on things like Magda Szubanski’s old sketches where she performed in blackface. You can comment on more serious things like a Turkish husband pushing his wife over a cliff for the insurance payout. You can even comment on Kanye West’s admiration for Adolf Hitler. But one thing I’ve found, the comments are often turned off where Aboriginal people are involved.

Okay, so this is a terrible story about an Australian Aboriginal boy who was killed, so it could be that the comments have been turned off not because it involves Aboriginal people, but due to the seriousness of the crime which involved children. However, it didn’t take me long to find other similar articles where children were involved, but where comments were allowed!

For example, this article talks about the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson in England, and comments were allowed. By the way, I’ve left links for all these articles in the description below. Here’s another article on the Daily Mail about two children in Australia who died from criminal neglect this year, and comments are turned on.

So it begs the question, why are comments not allowed on this article involving the Aboriginal boy? I think my initial suspicion was probably correct, because I’ve seen a pattern of this occurring recently. Publishers are probably afraid that if they let people comment on these articles involving Aboriginal people, that the commenters might write something that inadvertently offends Aboriginal readers, and then the newspaper might be accused of racism. But isn’t that very action of not allowing comments due to it being about Aboriginal people racist? I mean, you can discuss Magna in blackface. You can talk about Hitler and Kanye West. You can talk about two little children who were murdered in England. But you can’t comment on Tony Armstrong when he blasts Australians for not caring about this boy’s death?

Look, I don’t know what the real reason is, but it certainly seems like the Daily Mail doesn’t want people to comment on this article due to it involving Aboriginal people. Perhaps they’re worried it will turn racist very quickly. Am I wrong?

ARTICLES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11360269/Madga-Szubanski-slammed-online-photo-resurfaces-doing-blackface.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11360767/Husband-jailed-life-pushing-pregnant-wife-cliff-Turkey.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11362341/Kanye-wanted-call-2018-hit-album-Ye-HITLER.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11362827/Tony-Armstrong-Cassius-Turvey-Perth-schoolboy-allegedly-beaten-death-pole.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10902367/Child-cruelty-offences-jump-quarter-year-figures-show.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11068163/Second-Adelaide-childs-death-investigated-case-criminal-neglect.html

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