"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right."
This is a World Heritage (fairly meaningless, I know) site, most trafficked by backpackers and other tourists. NO ONE calls it K'gari. No one, except the very most "woke", and the money-grubbing Aboriginal "traditional owners" of the area, who are such a tiny minority that they shouldn't even have a say, here.
Make no mistake, this is significant. No referendum. No "election promise". No public consultation. And the intersectional "feminists" are more than happy to quite literally erase the name of one of their forebears...
The left, and their useful idiots in "controlled opposition", like Sky News here, are already treating this as a "fait accompli". They think they've won.
But this is more than that. This means renaming a vast section of the Qld coast. It means potentially millions of dollars in lost marketing, and loss of name value. It means a loss of identity, and a loss of connection between the MAJORITY Australian population, and that island.
Make no mistake, this is a culture war, and they think they've won.
I should also add that these people do this ALL THE FUCKING TIME, over here. Every week there's a new "renaming". Every week, another recognised "product" disappears off the shelf, for being "offensive" to someone. This never ends. Never.
And that's why people like me fucking hate them. Both the screaming "Activists" who cause this, and the unelected bureacrats, the politicians, the fucking media, and the useful idiots on Twitter and other social media most of all. Literal ahistorical race traitors, the lot of them.
In New Zealand they are renaming the country as "Aotearoa" in government records and even a prominent pro-Maori politician was against it saying it was divisive , and wokeness will tear the country apart and no one asked for it .
We used to make fun of Eastern Europeans for not using enough vowels, so can we now make fun of the Pacific people for not using enough damn consonants?
Please do. I had a (supposedly) Maori white girl try to slap me, and kick me out of a house party, for pronouncing Maaaaooooowwwwwrrrriiiii wrong, once. In Australia.
Like, if I move out of my apartment, the next tenant is supposed to invite me over every week and thank me for living there before?
Maybe in Australia it's more straight forward, but in Canada any given piece of land had changed hands dozens or even hundreds of times before Europeans arrived. Who's the traditional owner? All of them?
The worst part is, the SJWs don't even bother to learn the history of the place. For example, in southern Ontario everyone "acknowledges" the Mississauga tribe but they hadn't even occupied the land for 80 years. Before them, the Huron fought the Iroquois and were driven north, at which point the Iroquios went south and left the land empty and the Mississauga sort of wandered in.
After the American Revolution, the British bought the land from them to give it to their Iroquois allies who had lost their "traditional" land to the Americans (monstrous, I know).
So yes, thank you Mississaugas for squatting on empty land and getting paid for it (instead of being driven off, like any other native tribe would have done), we will sing of your exploits at every official ceremony until our country dies of fart inhalation.
I'm assuming they aren't changing things so more profit from tourists goes to the "traditional owners" or anything like that. It's kind of great, how shallow yet damaging their activism is. Like a concert raising awareness about pollution, and then the next day the field it was held in is completely covered in trash.
I don't think it will really change much. Ayers rock is still known as Ayers rock. Anyone who says the native name will be met with "what?" unless they already included that they meant Ayers rock. It should still be pushed against, though.
I also think an important distinction, here, is that we don't call the Southwest NT the "Ayers Rock region" (well, some people might), whereas Fraser Island quite literally sits on the Fraser Coast (Region), which is a gazetted, formal, official, nationally-recognised name, not just a tourist thing...
This is a massive change, make no mistake about that. Like Frobisher's Bay, as Rat points out. Or the Queen Charlotte Islands (also Canada).
I had the staff at the fucking resort try to kick me out for calling it that. I'm not joking.
Amongst the whiteys who were there, like me, to climb it? Sure, your point holds. But if you think the woke left doesn't care, or doesn't insist on you using the "correct" name..? You got another thing coming, bruh.
I even had a white American girl yell at me, and end my friendship with her, for even daring to ASK whether she considered climbing, when she went prior to me. That's the kind of environment this shit brings, now...
Slight correction, it's over 180 years of history, under that name, that is being erased. Wow, just... Wow.
That's almost 80% of the history OF THIS COUNTRY, being erased, just like that. Just because of a screaming, tiny minority, and a cultural, leftist "elite" that is flexing its muscles...
Fuck. Where do "we" even go from here..? This is... Fucked.
In port of Spain Trinidad they renamed a historical British park from "king George V Park" to "Nelson Mandela Park" even though Mandela had fuck all to do with this country's history.
This comes at the same time as The Greens announce multiple "trans" candidates, for election, in my state, and the media falls over itself to say how wonderful that is... (In addition to what you have already seen, re coof, of course).
This country is fucking broken, and I just... I don't know what to do. No one around me is willing to fight. I... Every day is a blackpill, here.
As I do not think aborigines are really politically active, this blatant racial separatist bullshit likely caused by impure mongrels who are mostly white along with outright pretendians.
Oh, you mean Quick-tuck-a-look, Equally-oot, or whatever the fuck they call that place, now, lol...?
Fucking unpronounceable bullshit, innit?
I heard a band from there at a folk festival (in fucking Canberra), once. They did throat singing in fucking Inuit, or, as I'm gonna continue to call it, Eskimo. It was fucking bizarre...
"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right."
This is a World Heritage (fairly meaningless, I know) site, most trafficked by backpackers and other tourists. NO ONE calls it K'gari. No one, except the very most "woke", and the money-grubbing Aboriginal "traditional owners" of the area, who are such a tiny minority that they shouldn't even have a say, here.
Make no mistake, this is significant. No referendum. No "election promise". No public consultation. And the intersectional "feminists" are more than happy to quite literally erase the name of one of their forebears...
The left, and their useful idiots in "controlled opposition", like Sky News here, are already treating this as a "fait accompli". They think they've won.
But this is more than that. This means renaming a vast section of the Qld coast. It means potentially millions of dollars in lost marketing, and loss of name value. It means a loss of identity, and a loss of connection between the MAJORITY Australian population, and that island.
Make no mistake, this is a culture war, and they think they've won.
I should also add that these people do this ALL THE FUCKING TIME, over here. Every week there's a new "renaming". Every week, another recognised "product" disappears off the shelf, for being "offensive" to someone. This never ends. Never.
And that's why people like me fucking hate them. Both the screaming "Activists" who cause this, and the unelected bureacrats, the politicians, the fucking media, and the useful idiots on Twitter and other social media most of all. Literal ahistorical race traitors, the lot of them.
In New Zealand they are renaming the country as "Aotearoa" in government records and even a prominent pro-Maori politician was against it saying it was divisive , and wokeness will tear the country apart and no one asked for it .
How the fuck is that even pronounced?
We used to make fun of Eastern Europeans for not using enough vowels, so can we now make fun of the Pacific people for not using enough damn consonants?
Please do. I had a (supposedly) Maori white girl try to slap me, and kick me out of a house party, for pronouncing Maaaaooooowwwwwrrrriiiii wrong, once. In Australia.
Not kidding.
Oh - you can claim to be maori like elizabeth warren did?
Are there any benefits?
its pronounce as AO(like "aw") , TEAH (like the yugioh character) and then "RORA"
Yeah, look, I can't even be bothered trying at this point...
Chewbacca noises just don't do it, for me, tbh... shrug
WTF is a "traditional owner" anyway?
Like, if I move out of my apartment, the next tenant is supposed to invite me over every week and thank me for living there before?
Maybe in Australia it's more straight forward, but in Canada any given piece of land had changed hands dozens or even hundreds of times before Europeans arrived. Who's the traditional owner? All of them?
The worst part is, the SJWs don't even bother to learn the history of the place. For example, in southern Ontario everyone "acknowledges" the Mississauga tribe but they hadn't even occupied the land for 80 years. Before them, the Huron fought the Iroquois and were driven north, at which point the Iroquios went south and left the land empty and the Mississauga sort of wandered in.
After the American Revolution, the British bought the land from them to give it to their Iroquois allies who had lost their "traditional" land to the Americans (monstrous, I know).
So yes, thank you Mississaugas for squatting on empty land and getting paid for it (instead of being driven off, like any other native tribe would have done), we will sing of your exploits at every official ceremony until our country dies of fart inhalation.
I'm assuming they aren't changing things so more profit from tourists goes to the "traditional owners" or anything like that. It's kind of great, how shallow yet damaging their activism is. Like a concert raising awareness about pollution, and then the next day the field it was held in is completely covered in trash.
I don't think it will really change much. Ayers rock is still known as Ayers rock. Anyone who says the native name will be met with "what?" unless they already included that they meant Ayers rock. It should still be pushed against, though.
I also think an important distinction, here, is that we don't call the Southwest NT the "Ayers Rock region" (well, some people might), whereas Fraser Island quite literally sits on the Fraser Coast (Region), which is a gazetted, formal, official, nationally-recognised name, not just a tourist thing...
This is a massive change, make no mistake about that. Like Frobisher's Bay, as Rat points out. Or the Queen Charlotte Islands (also Canada).
Culture war, wooo... :-/
I mean, have you been to Ayers Rock..??
I had the staff at the fucking resort try to kick me out for calling it that. I'm not joking.
Amongst the whiteys who were there, like me, to climb it? Sure, your point holds. But if you think the woke left doesn't care, or doesn't insist on you using the "correct" name..? You got another thing coming, bruh.
I even had a white American girl yell at me, and end my friendship with her, for even daring to ASK whether she considered climbing, when she went prior to me. That's the kind of environment this shit brings, now...
Slight correction, it's over 180 years of history, under that name, that is being erased. Wow, just... Wow.
That's almost 80% of the history OF THIS COUNTRY, being erased, just like that. Just because of a screaming, tiny minority, and a cultural, leftist "elite" that is flexing its muscles...
Fuck. Where do "we" even go from here..? This is... Fucked.
In port of Spain Trinidad they renamed a historical British park from "king George V Park" to "Nelson Mandela Park" even though Mandela had fuck all to do with this country's history.
All you huuuuehyte Australian men just walk into the sea and give your land to China already. This slow self-suffocating is tiresome.
This comes at the same time as The Greens announce multiple "trans" candidates, for election, in my state, and the media falls over itself to say how wonderful that is... (In addition to what you have already seen, re coof, of course).
This country is fucking broken, and I just... I don't know what to do. No one around me is willing to fight. I... Every day is a blackpill, here.
Brutal, man.
As I do not think aborigines are really politically active, this blatant racial separatist bullshit likely caused by impure mongrels who are mostly white along with outright pretendians.
I mean yeah, that's pretty much literally it...
You won't find many pureblood Abos living in that region, anymore, that's for sure...
It's the blonde-haired, blue-eyed "diversity hires" with supposed "Aboriginal ancestry" that I hate the most, personally, lol...
Frobisher's Bay says hi.
Oh, you mean Quick-tuck-a-look, Equally-oot, or whatever the fuck they call that place, now, lol...?
Fucking unpronounceable bullshit, innit?
I heard a band from there at a folk festival (in fucking Canberra), once. They did throat singing in fucking Inuit, or, as I'm gonna continue to call it, Eskimo. It was fucking bizarre...
C'est ça: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerry_Cans
What the fuck even is this: ᐸᐃ ᒑᓚᖃᐅᑎᒃᑯᑦ .
THAT's the language? That?
Makes me almost appreciate that the smashed abbos don't have a written language of any sort, at this point, lol...
Oi, fuck you, throat singing is beyond based. Not sure what Inuit throat singing is like, but Mongolian throat singing is incredible.
A fairly excellent academic take on all of this furore, and cultural destruction/vandalism, while I go off and, I dunno, drink myself to death (?) : https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2020/08/ap13.pdf
Pointless, people use will erase the official name or change it into something else.
Do you remember when then Rasna went into war against Kymee ?
exactly
*Rasna-Etruscans / Kymee-Cumae