"Cyber racism" is a term used to capture the phenomenon of racism online. The term encompasses racist rhetoric that is distributed through computer-mediated means and includes some or all of the following characteristics: ideas of racial uniqueness, racist attitudes towards specific social categories, racist stereotypes, hate-speech, nationalism and common destiny, racial supremacy, superiority and separation, conceptions of racial otherness, and anti-establishment world-view.[1][2][3][4][5] Racism online can have the same effects as offensive remarks not online.[6]