‘Bring back Hitler’s gas chambers’: Asylum seeking, Nazis and Facebook – a discursive analysis

Burke, Shani; Goodman, Simon

doi:10.1177/0957926511431036

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“…Critical social psychologists wishing to examine naturalistic discourse about important social topics or matters of public controversy have traditionally sought to capture this through examining media and parliamentary debates (e.g., Every & Augoustinos 2007;Jowett 2014). However, as Burke and Goodman (2012) observe, discussion and debate by "ordinary, everyday" people online is likely to be conducted differently, and often in a less guarded manner, than journalists or politicians whose discourse is under closer public scrutiny. The searchable nature of online discussion archives allows the researcher to capture conversations by ordinary people pertaining to specific issues without the researcher directing the discussion.…”

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A Case for Using Online Discussion Forums in Critical Psychological Research

Jowett

2015

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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Online forums provide a wealth of publicly accessible data and have proven particularly useful for critical psychologists wishing to examine naturalistic data on a wide range of social phenomena. This article begins by considering the use of online discussion forums for critical discursive psychological research and outlines ethical debates regarding their use (particularly in light of past and current British Psychological Society guidelines). To demonstrate how such data can be used in critical psychology I provide an illustrative example of a discursive analysis of a single online discussion thread taken from a diabetes newsgroup that examines anti-social online behaviours in the form of "trolling," "flaming," and heterosexism.

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Section: Advantages and Potential Disadvantages Of Using Online Forummentioning

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A Case for Using Online Discussion Forums in Critical Psychological Research

Jowett

2015

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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“…More recently, discursive researchers have begun to study a countervailing norm, not against prejudice, but against accusations of prejudice and racism (Augoustinos & Every, ; Burke & Goodman, ; Goodman & Burke, ). This research demonstrates how accusations of racism can be criticized for illegitimately ‘playing the race card’ and attempting to shut down reasonable debate.…”

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Race trouble: Attending to race and racism in online interaction

Durrheim

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Whitehead

2014

British J Social Psychol

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This article advocates the concept of Race Trouble as a way of synthesizing variation in racial discourse, and as a way of studying how social interaction and institutional life continue to be organized by conceptions of "race" and "racism". Our analysis of an online discussion at a South African University about the defensibility of a characterization of (black) student protesters as "savages" revealed a number of familiar strategies: participants avoided explicit racism, denied racism, and denied racism on behalf of others. However, the aim of analysis was not to identify the "real" racism, but to show how race and racism were used in the interaction to develop perspectives on transformation in the institution, to produce social division in the University, and to create ambivalently racialized and racializing subject positions. We demonstrate how, especially through uses of deracialized discourse, participants' actions were observably shaped by the potential ways in which others could hear "race" and "racism". Race trouble thus became manifest through racial suggestion, allusion, innuendo and implication. We conclude with a call to social psychologists to study the ways in which meanings of "race" and "racism" are forged and contested in relation to each other.

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“…The swastika suggests that Britain First is portraying Muslims as Nazis. This in turn constructs Britain First as the opposite of Nazis, arguing against a common stereotype that is often invoked about far‐right members (Burke & Goodman, ). Note the Israeli flag, an orientation towards the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and suggesting support towards the Jewish community.…”

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The discursive “othering” of Jews and Muslims in the Britain First solidarity patrol

Burke

2018

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In this paper, critical discursive psychology is used to analyse the Islamophobic discourse by the far‐right party Britain First in its “solidarity patrol” video. Britain First patrolled in Golders Green, North London, to show support for Jewish communities following the ISIS shooting at the kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9, 2015. The Charlie Hebdo shooting and the shooting at the kosher supermarket (as well as other attacks by members of the Islamic State) have led to Muslims being seen as a threat to Britain and exposed to Islamophobic attacks and racial abuse. This presents far‐right parties in the United Kingdom with the dilemma of appearing moderate and mainstream in their anti‐Islamic stance. The analysis focuses on how Britain First used the shooting at the kosher supermarket in order to construct Jews as under threat from Islam. The analysis also includes visual communication in the solidarity patrol video that was used to provide “evidence” that Britain First supported Jewish communities. Results are discussed in light of how Britain First used aligning with Jews in order to appear as “reasonable” in projecting its anti‐Islamic ideology and how critical discursive psychology can be used to show how conflicting social identities are constructed.

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‘Bring back Hitler’s gas chambers’: Asylum seeking, Nazis and Facebook – a discursive analysis

Cited by 73 publications

References 33 publications

A Case for Using Online Discussion Forums in Critical Psychological Research

A Case for Using Online Discussion Forums in Critical Psychological Research

Race trouble: Attending to race and racism in online interaction

The discursive “othering” of Jews and Muslims in the Britain First solidarity patrol

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