A #reactionary #crypto #techbro (but I repeat myself) has self-funded his own unofficial #NoCampaign for the upcoming Australian referendum on the #Indigenous #VoiceToParliament. To that end, he made various online video ads fearing an algorithmically-generated person of colour expressing their concerns about listening to #Aboriginal people when they say they want to be listened to.

Faced with the predictable backlash (and #FreePublicity, who would have thought it?), his response (only slightly translated): "how could you possibly think my ads opposing listening to Indigenous people would depict an Aboriginal person? Don't you realise that I'm targeting people who *don't* want to hear from Aboriginal voices? Why would I pick a fake Aboriginal person to make a #fearmongering claim about people falsely claiming to be Aboriginal? And anyway, I can always tell at a glance with 100% accuracy whether someone is Aboriginal or not, can't everyone?"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/07/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-campaign-ai-facebook-ads
#auspol #racism #VoiceReferendum #voice #SockPuppet #AI

If you had good arguments, you wouldn't need dirty tricks like this, would you?

"Indigenous man condemns voice no campaign for claiming he is Vincent Lingiari’s grandson

Stewart Lingiari says he’s ‘humiliated’ after Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine misidentify him as grandson of the land rights leader to promote no campaign"

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/16/indigenous-man-condemns-voice-no-campaign-leaders-for-wrongly-using-his-image

#TheVoice #NoCampaign #VoteYesOnTheVoice