Wiradjuri man Stan Grant has announced he is leaving his job as host of ABC’s Q&A program after receiving “grotesque racist abuse” which he said escalated after he hosted a discussion as part of the ABC’s coverage of the king’s coronation recently. He said he felt unsupported by the ABC in the wake of the abuse, now getting an apology from the ABC.

Stan Grant’s resignation comes less than a year after being made the permanent host of the talk show Q&A. Are some of the criticisms of Stan Grant fair (he's very opinionated) or are we simply looking at racist abuse? There are some very rude people out there.

Thanks for the post Nathan. I'm trying to write an essay on the issue and I'm trying to find examples of the racism that Stan complains about. I'm having trouble finding anything serious. And that's after searches on Twitter, and reading comments on The Australian, which Patricia Karvelas accuses of holding racist comments.

There's bits about his tan. And that he's used his Aboriginality to get places. The worst I could really find was someone asking why he left his aboriginal wife (who they said was pregnant at the time) for his "white girl" (this is how they described Tracey Holmes his current wife). While I find this a very distasteful characterisation it doesn't seem to me to be enough to justify his actions. The tan actually seems relevant to how he reconciles his European and Aboriginal heritage, and the accusation about using race for preference not even vaguely racist.

So I'm looking for examples, and opportunistically using Nathan's thread to do it.

He’s lining up politics via the Voice me thinks ! The feigned racism concerns are part of a smoke screen to garner support via sympathy !

I was reading Mr Grant's outpouring of what amounts to grief.
It is full of passion.
But even though his conclusions are heartfelt, mistakes are obvious throughout the text.
This is because he has a distorted view of the incidents he is describing?
His reality has little in common with the truth?
One might be justified in concluding that he is extremely stressed?
Time for him to talk with those who have a more ordered and logical view of life?
I remember making a somewhat similar comment about three months ago.
Straws in the wind...

With the Voice debate hotting up, the shock troops, the so called journalists of the extreme right wing media, the Murdoch mob are at the head of the parade, are out in force to discredit people like Grant for their advocacy on the issue.

Grant said; "I’m not walking away for a while because of racism, we get that far too often. I’m not walking away because of social media hatred, I need a break from the media. I feel like I’m part of the problem. And I need to ask myself how, or if, we can do it better.” I think he is wrong in feeling he is "part of the problem", the problem lies fairly and squarely with the bigotry and racism of the hard right media.

"Wiradjuri man Stan Grant...."

Oh.. I thought he was Australian.