First Australians

[Irrev-Black]

Poor little buggers never had a voice of any sort, and their massacre was a secret till now.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... n-children

And there's more than one way to kill a kid.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... -survivors

[Irrev-Black]

A few hundred more Blak kids in nameless holes.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... new-norcia

[stylofone]

Even in my woke leftist bubble I get glimpses of the nauseating racism which remains deeply ingrained in Australia. Reading the transcript of the Mediawatch summary, including the blatant hatred on talkback radio and social media brought it home a bit closer. In general the concept of the nation state stinks a bit, but Australia is really putrid at the moment. Ask not what you can do for your country, especially after what you country has done to you, or more precisely, what my country has done on my behalf to the indigenous peoples, victims of Australia's greatest crime against humanity. I am honoured to live on the land of the first nations, but to be "Australian" is shameful. Fuck Australia. That's my response, as a non-indigenous Australian, to the racism of the No campaign.

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episo ... /102870788

[Irrev-Black]

Re Senator "Everyone Has A" Price:

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[pipbarber]

I keep hearing that not everyone who votes 'no' is a racist, but all racists will vote 'no.' But through a critical race theory lens, everyone who votes 'no' is in fact expressing, at the very least, internalised racism and that is entirely reinforced by the no campaign's appeal to ignorance through their 'if you dont know...' slogan. It's akin to saying 'i'm not political,' which of course is a profound political statement of acquiescence to the dominant politics. Voting 'no' because you don't know is to maintain the historical silence of Australia's racist genocidal history and as as i'm concerned, that is racist.

Just an observation.

[Irrev-Black]

I don't follow football, but I'm pleased to relay this from the birdsite:

Aaron Dodd, Vote YES.
@AaronDodd
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24m
Not a single Boo from the crowd during the #WelcomeToCountry at the #AFLGrandFinal. Not one.

Eat shit #SamNewman.

#auspol #VoteYes

[wadaye]

I keep hearing that not everyone who votes 'no' is a racist, but all racists will vote 'no.' But through a critical race theory lens, everyone who votes 'no' is in fact expressing, at the very least, internalised racism and that is entirely reinforced by the no campaign's appeal to ignorance through their 'if you dont know...' slogan. It's akin to saying 'i'm not political,' which of course is a profound political statement of acquiescence to the dominant politics. Voting 'no' because you don't know is to maintain the historical silence of Australia's racist genocidal history and as as i'm concerned, that is racist.

Just an observation.

The sentiment rings true but in practice the comeback is that the bedfellow of the yes campaign is Rio Tinto.
https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/trendi ... parliament

Now I know that approaches an adhominem argument except that Rio Tinto is not a hominem, it is a culturally racist institution with centuries of genocide on its hands. Has it learned anything? I don't know.

Its obviously good that they do support the Voice. But they also fund the no campaign at the same time surely

[Irrev-Black]

(SNIP)

The sentiment rings true but in practice the comeback is that the bedfellow of the yes campaign is Rio Tinto.
https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/trendi ... parliament

Now I know that approaches an adhominem argument except that Rio Tinto is not a hominem, it is a culturally racist institution with centuries of genocide on its hands. Has it learned anything? I don't know.

Its obviously good that they do support the Voice. But they also fund the no campaign at the same time surely

Rio Tinto would have to do a huge amount for traditional owners of lands they've exploited to make up for what they have done.

No, it's a cynical exercise that shows nothing except that the company has lots of money to piss around.

[pipbarber]

The sentiment rings true but in practice the comeback is that the bedfellow of the yes campaign is Rio Tinto.
https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/trendi ... parliament

Now I know that approaches an adhominem argument except that Rio Tinto is not a hominem, it is a culturally racist institution with centuries of genocide on its hands. Has it learned anything? I don't know.

Its obviously good that they do support the Voice. But they also fund the no campaign at the same time surely

They're 'culture washing.' They don't see first nations representation to the Australian parliament as a threat because the Australian parliament is not a threat.

[Irrev-Black]

From hairy elephant place:

rwba@aus.social
Ross B is Voting Yes
@rwba@aus.social

Historian, Henry Reynolds has a piece in Pearls and Irritations about David Marr's major work 'Killing for Country: a family story' which, in 450 pages, investigates the roles played by his ancestors in the conquest of north Australia in the second half of the C19th.

The final paragraph of this essay reads as follows:

"At the very end of the book Marr turns his attention to the War Memorial. There is space in those sad halls, he declares, ‘to stand two Australian figures in bronze, a white officer and a black trooper, and engrave on the plinth beneath:

THE NATIVE POLICE

IN CONQUEST OF THIS COUNTRY

KILLED UNTOLD THOUSANDS OF THEM

WE REMEMBER THEM"

I think this country seriously needs Truth Telling to be broadcast to the entire nation. An excellent project for the ABC and SBS, I suspect.

https://johnmenadue.com/will-a-shocking ... -yes-vote/

Oh, those benefits of civilisation...