Aboriginals didn't have towns. They didn't even have houses (fucking obviously. Every fourth-grader knows this).
Lonely Planet knows this. They know that statement is factually... Off. But they deliberately put it in there anyway.
Look, you might think this doesn't matter, but these are the same utter freaks who insist that Melbourne "was originally called" naaaaaarrrrrmmm, and still should be (according to them). Same with nipaluna (yes, really), for Hobart, and warrane for Sydney. Even though all of those have existed for less than a decade.
You see this shit everywhere, now. On the news. In the "arts" community. On the TV. Absolutely everywhere. And it started with "woke" students and academics.
Oh, I should add: none of those places existed, pre-whitey. This isn't California. It isn't New Mexico. It isn't even Canada. Our natives were quite literally more primitive than pretty much any African tribe, when whitey arrived...
And yet, I'm told to "call it naarm, not Melbourne". I'm told that "calling Hobart by its colonial name is offensive. You must call it nipaluna (all lower case)"
I'm told that "claiming you are going on holiday to Fraser Island is offensive to the tribes who live there. Call it by its traditional name of K'gaari, bigot! Even the (woke) government recognises that is its "true" name!!"
This shit stinks. Fuck this country. These people are fucking evil.
Lonely Planet was originally founded and headquartered in Melbourne (yes, really). That's an important point. Then it was bought by the fucking BBC, driven into the ground, and bought by a photographer with zero business acumen, who literally bankrupted the company, gutted it (much more than even the BBC had managed to do), and this... Woke carcass is its barely-functioning ghost...
Fucking weird. Same thing happened to Fairfax (once Australia's second-largest media org). Dumb, entitled, "creative" idiots in their twenties, completely ruined and destroyed the business that was handed to them. Funny that...
I did a north american archeology course once. The thing that struck me most was how primitive the Native Americans were. The height of technology before Europeans arrived was having simple copper tools. Fish hooks and needles and such that could be made from raw unprocessed copper that washed up on a shore somewhere. No wheel, only basic wood and skin structures all while China was at the height of the Ming Dynasty and Europe was going through the Renaissance and even the middle East was experimenting with new and creative gunpowder formulas. Meanwhile in America having a crummy raw copper fish hook is a big status symbol. And even then, Australian Aborigines were somehow even more primitive.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
Also the traditional name thing reminds me of when they renamed Barrow, Alaska to something unpronounceable that I can't remember.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
What they fail to understand is that any worthwhile knowledge they had (plants that had analgesic properties, eating fruit to be prevent some diseases during long sea voyages) as long since just been acquired, studied and understood and is part of "our" science now.
Everything else we didn't roll into our own stuff was garbage. So if "ancestral knowledge" now says something opposite to modern science, modern science is most likely the right answer.
Here is the link that leads to: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/melbourne-or-sydney
If you don't get it, you're missing the point.
Aboriginals didn't have towns. They didn't even have houses (fucking obviously. Every fourth-grader knows this).
Lonely Planet knows this. They know that statement is factually... Off. But they deliberately put it in there anyway.
Look, you might think this doesn't matter, but these are the same utter freaks who insist that Melbourne "was originally called" naaaaaarrrrrmmm, and still should be (according to them). Same with nipaluna (yes, really), for Hobart, and warrane for Sydney. Even though all of those have existed for less than a decade.
You see this shit everywhere, now. On the news. In the "arts" community. On the TV. Absolutely everywhere. And it started with "woke" students and academics.
Oh, I should add: none of those places existed, pre-whitey. This isn't California. It isn't New Mexico. It isn't even Canada. Our natives were quite literally more primitive than pretty much any African tribe, when whitey arrived...
And yet, I'm told to "call it naarm, not Melbourne". I'm told that "calling Hobart by its colonial name is offensive. You must call it nipaluna (all lower case)"
I'm told that "claiming you are going on holiday to Fraser Island is offensive to the tribes who live there. Call it by its traditional name of K'gaari, bigot! Even the (woke) government recognises that is its "true" name!!"
This shit stinks. Fuck this country. These people are fucking evil.
Lonely Planet was originally founded and headquartered in Melbourne (yes, really). That's an important point. Then it was bought by the fucking BBC, driven into the ground, and bought by a photographer with zero business acumen, who literally bankrupted the company, gutted it (much more than even the BBC had managed to do), and this... Woke carcass is its barely-functioning ghost...
Fucking weird. Same thing happened to Fairfax (once Australia's second-largest media org). Dumb, entitled, "creative" idiots in their twenties, completely ruined and destroyed the business that was handed to them. Funny that...
I did a north american archeology course once. The thing that struck me most was how primitive the Native Americans were. The height of technology before Europeans arrived was having simple copper tools. Fish hooks and needles and such that could be made from raw unprocessed copper that washed up on a shore somewhere. No wheel, only basic wood and skin structures all while China was at the height of the Ming Dynasty and Europe was going through the Renaissance and even the middle East was experimenting with new and creative gunpowder formulas. Meanwhile in America having a crummy raw copper fish hook is a big status symbol. And even then, Australian Aborigines were somehow even more primitive.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
Also the traditional name thing reminds me of when they renamed Barrow, Alaska to something unpronounceable that I can't remember.
What they fail to understand is that any worthwhile knowledge they had (plants that had analgesic properties, eating fruit to be prevent some diseases during long sea voyages) as long since just been acquired, studied and understood and is part of "our" science now.
Everything else we didn't roll into our own stuff was garbage. So if "ancestral knowledge" now says something opposite to modern science, modern science is most likely the right answer.
That has more to do with ideology; science is falsifiable-- ideology isn't, and that's the crux of the current issue.