Australia Day & Controversy… (Aka peson who thinks Indigenous Australians should get over genocide)
TW: Talks on Genocide, apologism, racism, ableist language, white people who miss the plot, Australia
i-like-physics:
On the 26th of January, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Botany Bay, i.e. Sydney aboard the HMS Supply with many ships following his path. This was known as The First Fleet. This was the official Colonisation of Australia.
On this day, Australia was ‘owned’ by the British Monarch, despite the fact that for 40,000 years, Aborigines had lived in Australia.
There is so much problematic, privilege denying, racist shit to filter through here. Good lord where do I begin.
First of all- When the First Fleet came, not only did members of that crew introduce a disease similar to small pox that wiped out 1200 members of the surrounding Indigenous communities at the time- they also deliberately infected the waters these communities used, getting the disease to spread. You do realise this is an act of genocide yes?
At first, the soldiers were peaceful, yet stern to the natives of Australia, as they posed no serious attacks upon the new white-man, but as time passed, more and more caucasians arrived from the UK, and sooner or later, things got messy. Aborigines were murdered by the thousands by the hands of the new beings for no good reason. It was genocide. It was a disgrace to morality, ethics and humility, and it is a time that all moral people regret happening.
Like I honest to God do not know how that can be interpreted into ” peaceful, but stern” behaviour (which also sounds condescending as fuck just in case you didn’t notice)
Also, from 1869 to 1969, many ‘half-cast’ Aboriginal children were forcefully taken from their families by the Government, in an attempt to ‘out-breed’ the Aborigine in their genes. This was also disgustingly wrong and immoral. It is also a day that moral Australians regret happening.
Sadly, for a second there- I thought you were going to write out something deep and thoughtful until
The problem today is that modern Aborigines still abuse caucasian Australians for the events that occurred in the past, and people are getting VERY sick of it.
There is not a SINGLE GENERATION of Aboriginal Australians who haven’t suffered from the impact of genocide. Not a single one. We still have that failed intervention going on in the Northern Territory which has only separated more communities, displaced children, and cause rates of substance abuse to increase higher than they already were. Infant mortality is still incredibly high due to Government negligence. Indigenous women are at a higher risk of rape and sexual assault ALSO DUE TO GOVERNMENT NEGLIGENCE. There is still not treaty. There has been very little in land rights. There is near zero representation of Indigenous members in our Political system AND IT HAS ONLY BEEN 40 YEARS SINCE EVERYONE VOTED, YES VOTED, ON ABORIGINALS BEING SEEN AS CITIZENS OF THEIR OWN LAND.
In simple speak, you have no place in deciding on whether these issues are “in the past”- considering that the things that harm these communities are still in action to this day. The people who are “sick of this “are people who were never paying attention or who already benefitted from the system.
Ever since Australia began to urbanise into large cities such as Sydney, Melbourne etc., the native culture of the Aborigine people has been declining VERY rapidly.
THIS IS DUE TO THE 200 YEARS OF GENOCIDE THEY ENDURED. THE GENOCIDE BROUGHT ON BY THOSE “PEACEFUL BUT STERN” FIRST FLEETERS. HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THAT THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. THE DECLINE AND DESECRATION OF THEIR CULTURES AND LANGUAGES IS DUE TO THE GOVERNMENT, COLONIALISM, CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AND PEOPLE WHO WERE’NT PAYING ATTENTION.
The Australian Government issues low-income Australians will ‘free’ support payments known as ‘The Dole’ as long as the receiving person searches for full-time employment. Unfortunately, many Australians abuse this privilege and sponge of the Government by applying for jobs with half-arse resumes and little effort just to ensure they get their payment. The sad part is that when the authorities find out that one is sponging, and ceases their payments, they complain and act like the Government is evil. They do not realise how lucky they are to get ANY support at all considering that 3rd world country citizens get NOTHING for assistance.
Also, massive call out on the irresponsible dialogue of the dole- do your fucking research because not only are you perpetuating negative stereotypes of Indigenous Australians, but also of those who live in low socio-economic areas. And honest to god, “Third World” seriously? Do some fucking research this shit is getting embarrassing.
Now, sadly, by percentage of ‘race’ (race does not exist, but I will use it for simplicity), the Aboriginal population are the highest receivers of ‘The Dole’, as well as filling Australia’s prisons (by percentage).
*In 2008 Aboriginal people represent only 2.3% of the total population, yet over 14% of Australia’s prison population are Aboriginal people.* - Online statistical source
Simple speak now, fuck off. I don’t know what it is about white people and their dismissal of race and how it plays an important role in the way society works and oppression- but this shit needs to stop. Also, you are presenting statistics without any explanation. Maybe you’re blind to it, but racially charged police brutality is a real thing in Australia. The system we have is more inclined to jailing those in under privileged situations than they are of helping them. But you wouldn’t know this because you were so caught up in perpetuation negative stereotypes of Indigenous Australians.
The majority of Aboriginal Australians today, are unemployed and many of them live in hatred of the ‘white man’ for what he did so many, many years ago. They abuse the system, drink heavily and are often some of the most repulsive people to be around.
Their hatred for the white man is legitimate, because the people who have been harming them for all this time have been white men. These white ment hat you speak of with such sorrow are the same ones who thrive off their oppression. If you were paying attention, you’d also realise that the white man still maintains a system which oppresses the Indigenous community. IT IS ONGOING. THE SYSTEM ABUSED THEM. THE ALCOHOLISM IS A GIFT THAT BRITISH COLONISERS LEFT FOR THEM BECAUSE ABORIGINALS WE’RE PERCEIVED AS HUMAN ENOUGH TO EARN MONEY. THIS WAS GOING ON TILL THE 1950’S. SERIOUSLY, DID YOU EVEN GOOGLE THIS SHIT BEFORE TYPING UP THIS APOLOGIST PEICE OF CRAP?
I am not racist. I am simply stating true fact. I have nothing against anyone of any skin colour. I have Arabic, Japanese, Aboriginal and Kiwi friends as well as caucasian friends and I love them all, but this is a big problem in Australia. Now do not think that I am saying that ALL Aborigine people are ‘dole bludging slobs’, because I am not. I know a fair few hard-working Abo’s whom are also great, great people and role models
First off, the term Abo is incredibly racist, which says a lot about you.
After that little gem, in all honesty, I can see is racism. And If your only reason for befriending people of other ethnicities was so you could legitimise your racist bullshit, then I honest to god hope that they ditch your ass. Seriously, quit tokenising others so you can legitimise your bullshit.
Now that I have explained the history and situation, I will rant.
Also, you have not explained the history at all. You have only distorted it and presented us with a painful, inaccurate lie.
To ALL the people, be you white, black, 50/50, retarded, Kiwi, ANYTHING, if you protest against the Australian Prime Minister etc by throwing rocks, eggs, shit etc at their car just because of their job, or you acuse a caucasian of ‘stealing your/their land’, FUCK..YOU.
Did you even read into how the fuck the riot started today? Are you even aware of what our leaders did? Seriously, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are fine in their tax payer funded world of privilege denial.
I mean it, FUCK YOU.
Cry me a river
It was inevitable. Yes, the discovery of this huge fucking island was bound…to…happen. So if you insult someone who is a descendant of British ancestry for being born here, thus seemingly taking on ALL the shit events in the past, done by people in the past, then fuck you.
Well, this place was founded 40,000 fucking years ago, but your statement does say a lot about yourself if you think the inhabitance of Indigenous Australians means little. Then again, you have demonstrated this before. Also, read your history, read your current politics- the oppression isn’t in the past.
I am SICK of all the Aborigines, half-casts, whites etc saying we owe them more, and more and more over something done long ago. Fuck, if Australia was never found until say, 1944 by the Nazis, I bet my bottom fucking dollar that Hitler would have ordered the extermination of every non-white & non-christian person walking this island.
Hold up, a while back you said you weren’t racist, but now you’re being racist oh wow. I mean seriously, you seem like a rather vile individual. If anything, the Australian public haven’t been giving enough to this community. I all honesty- barely anything has been done for the Indigenous community. Also, shame on you for the Nazi comment. How dare you suggest that Aboriginal Australians should be grateful that it wan’t the nazis. Do you not understand what genocide means? 200 years worth of genocide? Seriosuly, shame on you
It is 2012 for fucks sake. Shut the hell up about the shit that went on, and live life. Do not harbour hatred. I love my Abo mates, my Kiwi mates etc., but if you keep being pessimistic dick-bags about it, then you are wasting you time, and pissing people off.
1. Cut it with the abo talk- it’s racist and you’re point is pretty much dead right now.
2. I feel sorry for your friends, I wonder if they even consider you a friend from the way you speak of them.
3. It is 2012 and the NTER is still running, infant mortality and sexual assalut rates are still incredibly high AND NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE TO FIX IT. THIS SHIT I GOING ON. THE PROBLEM IS HAT YOU HAVE BEEN IGNORANT AS FUCK ABOUT ALL THIS. This community and their allies will continue talking until shits like you get the fucking point. IT IS NOT OVER. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE. THE WAY AUSTRALIA HAS TREATED THEIR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY IS AN INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE.
PEOPLE ARE ANGRY BECAUSE THIS SHIT IS HAPPENING.
Bottom line: Bad shit happened. Some of it had to happen, sadly, but what’s done is done and NOTHING can change that. Live in the present, pursue the future, learn from the past, but do not dwell upon it.
Bottom line: Bad shit will continue to happen because people like you are all talk bu never pay attention. Bad shit will happen because you will thrive off this oppression. Bad shit will happen because shits like you seem to think Genocide had to happen- and I pray that some where in your privileged little existence, you will learn how fucked up you were for thinking like this.
If anything, it is you who have learnt nothing from the past. Your denial has blinded you of the crimes the government is committing now. The nerve of you, a person who has never experienced anything close to this oppression or racism, to tell a group of people who are suffering to this day is a crime in itself, and it’s fucking appalling knowing that I live in a country full of people who think like this.
DONE.
Go fuck yourself