There are #AfricanGangs and they are NOT groups, they're f'ing #AfricanGangs! And calling them out is NOT racist, its FACT!
Sky News host Cory Bernardi says "when academics start accusing each other of racism, you know the lefties are starting to devour their own".
"It happened this week in response to a study pointing to high levels of violent crime in African-born youths - predominantly South Sudanese - in Melbourne," he said.
"The study, by Dr Stephane Shepherd, who just so happens to have African ancestry, concludes that the higher rates of African-Australian youth imprisonment were likely due to an increase in violent activity rather than because of police profiling.
"The author noted that the 'vast majority of Sudanese Victorians are law-abiding' but the report has predictably been condoned as racist by those whose livelihoods are dependent on seeing racism everywhere."
In their response, the editors defended the publication of the study, saying there was no basis to claims the study was lacking in academic rigour or unworthy of publication.
"Welcome to the brave new world where anything that activists don't like or contradicts their narrative about race repression, is instantly labelled racism," Mr Bernardi said.
"If you think you have it bad, just last week, the fact that most robots had white paint was labelled racist white supremacy. I guess if they were painted black, the makers would have been accused of slavery."