“Reverse racism” is sometimes used to describe situations where white people believe they are negatively stereotyped or discriminated against because of their whiteness – or treated less favourably than people of colour.
“Reverse racism” claims have surfaced in the current debate around the Voice to Parliament referendum. “The concept looks racist to me,” wrote Sky News commentator Kel Richards last August.
Such views misrepresent the Voice as preferential treatment of First Nations peoples, falsely suggesting it would somehow weaken the political say of non-Indigenous Australians.
