2134/16521
Shani Burke
Shani
Burke
Simon Goodman
Simon
Goodman
‘Bring back Hitler’s gas chambers’: asylum seeking, Nazis and Facebook – a discursive analysis
Loughborough University
2014
Accusations of racism
Computer-mediated communication
Discourse analysis
Nazis
Race talk
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
2014-12-19 12:05:41
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/_Bring_back_Hitler_s_gas_chambers_asylum_seeking_Nazis_and_Facebook_a_discursive_analysis/9472934
In this article, we explore how talk about Nazis is used in Internet discussions regarding asylum seeking, and the issue of whether or not opposition to asylum seeking is racist. Discursive analysis was conducted on discussions about asylum seeking from the social networking website Facebook, where references to Nazis were made. Three strategies were identified: (1) people supporting asylum seeking accuse asylum opponents of being racist by referring to Nazis; (2) opponents of asylum seeking deal with such accusations by arguing that the debate is being suppressed because of references to Nazis; (3) in the final, and most striking, strategy, opponents of asylum draw upon ideas associated with the Nazis and Hitler to bring about their anti-asylum position. These findings are discussed in relation to how the link between Nazis and racism is emerging in the asylum debate