“Send these A-holes to set up their coffee shop in the middle of Syria!!”
A blackboard sign in a beachside cafe has sparked online controversy for its “anti-Australia Day” message.
The sign was put out a day before Australia Day on January 25 at Mister Jones Espresso Bar in Bermagui, and was first uploaded to the hugely successful Facebook page Meanwhile in Australia.
In the days that followed, the post got thousands of likes and over 3,000 shares. The admin for the page told BuzzFeed News they uploaded the photo because they were upset with the statement.
“I live locally and was upset that the two men who own the business had the audacity to put that statement out the front of their business the day before Australia Day,” she said.
Facebook: MeanwhileInAustralia
Thousands of comments racked up on the post, ranging from outrage to approval, but the incident seemed isolated and destined not to travel further.
Facebook: MeanwhileInAustralia
However, the photo was eventually picked up by another Facebook page: Aussie Infidels. Aussie Infidels has a much smaller, but still active and engaged audience than Meanwhile In Australia.
The page mostly shares anti-Islamic content, as well as news stories about military veterans getting in fights with foreigners and posts insisting the Australian government ban the burqa. They took the image of the sign and encouraged their 10,000-strong audience to give bad reviews to the Mister Jones cafe on Tripadvisor.
The wave of attention saw the Mister Jones Facebook page inundated with negative reviews, forcing them to close their page (it has since been re-opened).
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