Watching the local (public broadcaster) news last night - during the weather, all geographical place names are no longer listed in English. They're in the Aboriginal conlang they made up, for this place, instead...
Initially it was "English name (Aboriginal Name)". Then it became "English Name/Aboriginal Name". Then the order reversed. Now the English name is not even mentioned...
This happened with Ayers Rock, too. It's one massive step in the erasure of the dominant culture and language. So much so that the mountain I grew up around is now no longer ever mentioned by its English name, in the media, despite Joe Public never really calling it the name they made up less than a decade ago (with the exclusion of the very woke, naturally)...
See also: "Native" >>"Aborigine" >> "Aboriginal" >> "Indigenous >> (in the past year, straight out of Canada) "First Nations", and now, if you don't use the current term, you're a "racist"... FML...
It's the media, man. It's always the fucking media...
And morally weak bureaucrats, politicians and academics, of course...
Symphony Orchestra concerts. Floyd happened in America, of course. Yet, since concerts resumed post-Coof, the local orchestra, at the start of each concert, conducts a fucking struggle session...
Every concert, a member of the orchestra is forced to stand up, and not just "acknowledge country", but also blab on about "white guilt", "sovereignty never ceded", "feel bad, whiteys", etc... And then the audience is made to clap, and if they don't, they are politely "told off" by the ushers...
And then they play 1 hour+ of European (mostly) classical music, with zero Aboriginal people on stage (usually), and very likely less than 10 in the whole audience, ever...
It got so bad that I stopped going. Yet my family laps it right up. Family friends fall over themselves to applaud its "brilliance". It is very much like a cult...
Supposedly, this started because the concerts were being livestreamed, but it is very apparent that they have made it a habitual, performative thing, since that time. And everyone just plays along, or is asked to leave. It is absolutely fucked.
And then in the last year woke musicians (not necessarily classical ones) including people I went to school with, started referring to the city, the city, by its conlang name, which has only existed for... Less than five years. Insane...
So yeah. It's so much worse than you might even have thought. It is literally like a slow, slow takeover, and inversion of the society I was born into, smh...
And then in the last year woke musicians (not necessarily classical ones) including people I went to school with, started referring to the city, the city, by its conlang name, which has only existed for... Less than five years. Insane...
Are you doing badthink about retiring the old badthink names, comrade? That's doubleplus ungood!
More seriously ... Did the aboriginal inhabitants build the city? If not, isn't their appropriation of the name just as bad imposing "Ayer's Rock" on something they themselves named?
Oh, silly me, I forgot whitey is untermensch and must be removed in the name of kindness and fairness.
Yeah, you get what's going on here, just as I do...
Hell, if they didn't have utter, bald-faced hypocrisy, they would have nothing. Which is, perhaps, where I began to smell something... Rather fishy, about the whole thing...
It's remarkably similar to what happened in parts of (now) Poland and the Czech Republic/"Czechia", after the fall of the Nazis and the expulsion of the Germans... Also "Kaliningrad"/Königsberg, of course...
Also India and China, post-whitey. India, I guess, is the most similar, given that places like Calcutta, Goa and Bombay were founded by le evil huwhite males...
However the difference here is that it is whitey doing it, at the behest of these minority activists. In a place that is like... 95%+ white. To appease less than 2% (!!) of the local population...
That... "Self-own", if you will, is remarkable. You don't really see that very much, outside the Anglosphere, lol.
NZ, Canada, Greenland and Alaska are worse than current Aus, though I think only two of those have actually started "renaming" cities, so in that sense, I guess we are "behind" the eight ball...
shivers I really don't see this ending well. For anyone...
Re: the concerts. ha. At least Midnight Oil walked the walk with having a one-armed, digiri-doo player with them on tour (fundraising thing for drought-stricken farmers, that got delayed a day or two because of a flood on Nullarbor Plain. I went to this, wish I had a video. 1995.) They even let him do a solo, it was pretty awesome. Why don't these struggle session guys do that?
It does seem to be about sending a message: this is not your home any more.
Yep. It's felt like that for a while, too, ngl...
Watching the local (public broadcaster) news last night - during the weather, all geographical place names are no longer listed in English. They're in the Aboriginal conlang they made up, for this place, instead...
Initially it was "English name (Aboriginal Name)". Then it became "English Name/Aboriginal Name". Then the order reversed. Now the English name is not even mentioned...
This happened with Ayers Rock, too. It's one massive step in the erasure of the dominant culture and language. So much so that the mountain I grew up around is now no longer ever mentioned by its English name, in the media, despite Joe Public never really calling it the name they made up less than a decade ago (with the exclusion of the very woke, naturally)...
See also: "Native" >>"Aborigine" >> "Aboriginal" >> "Indigenous >> (in the past year, straight out of Canada) "First Nations", and now, if you don't use the current term, you're a "racist"... FML...
It's the media, man. It's always the fucking media...
And morally weak bureaucrats, politicians and academics, of course...
One more anecdote:
Symphony Orchestra concerts. Floyd happened in America, of course. Yet, since concerts resumed post-Coof, the local orchestra, at the start of each concert, conducts a fucking struggle session...
Every concert, a member of the orchestra is forced to stand up, and not just "acknowledge country", but also blab on about "white guilt", "sovereignty never ceded", "feel bad, whiteys", etc... And then the audience is made to clap, and if they don't, they are politely "told off" by the ushers...
And then they play 1 hour+ of European (mostly) classical music, with zero Aboriginal people on stage (usually), and very likely less than 10 in the whole audience, ever...
It got so bad that I stopped going. Yet my family laps it right up. Family friends fall over themselves to applaud its "brilliance". It is very much like a cult...
Supposedly, this started because the concerts were being livestreamed, but it is very apparent that they have made it a habitual, performative thing, since that time. And everyone just plays along, or is asked to leave. It is absolutely fucked.
And then in the last year woke musicians (not necessarily classical ones) including people I went to school with, started referring to the city, the city, by its conlang name, which has only existed for... Less than five years. Insane...
So yeah. It's so much worse than you might even have thought. It is literally like a slow, slow takeover, and inversion of the society I was born into, smh...
Are you doing badthink about retiring the old badthink names, comrade? That's doubleplus ungood!
More seriously ... Did the aboriginal inhabitants build the city? If not, isn't their appropriation of the name just as bad imposing "Ayer's Rock" on something they themselves named?
Oh, silly me, I forgot whitey is untermensch and must be removed in the name of kindness and fairness.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!
Yeah, you get what's going on here, just as I do...
Hell, if they didn't have utter, bald-faced hypocrisy, they would have nothing. Which is, perhaps, where I began to smell something... Rather fishy, about the whole thing...
It's remarkably similar to what happened in parts of (now) Poland and the Czech Republic/"Czechia", after the fall of the Nazis and the expulsion of the Germans... Also "Kaliningrad"/Königsberg, of course...
Also India and China, post-whitey. India, I guess, is the most similar, given that places like Calcutta, Goa and Bombay were founded by le evil huwhite males...
However the difference here is that it is whitey doing it, at the behest of these minority activists. In a place that is like... 95%+ white. To appease less than 2% (!!) of the local population...
That... "Self-own", if you will, is remarkable. You don't really see that very much, outside the Anglosphere, lol.
NZ, Canada, Greenland and Alaska are worse than current Aus, though I think only two of those have actually started "renaming" cities, so in that sense, I guess we are "behind" the eight ball...
shivers I really don't see this ending well. For anyone...
Re: the concerts. ha. At least Midnight Oil walked the walk with having a one-armed, digiri-doo player with them on tour (fundraising thing for drought-stricken farmers, that got delayed a day or two because of a flood on Nullarbor Plain. I went to this, wish I had a video. 1995.) They even let him do a solo, it was pretty awesome. Why don't these struggle session guys do that?
Happening in the States. It used to be Mt. McKinnley, tallest mountain in the US. Now its Denali.
Yep, I know.
I ain’t calling it Denali, either…
See also: Mount Cook in NZ.
They would have done Kosciusko (here), but for the fact that it didn’t have an Aboriginal name, and they are yet to invent one, lol…
Oh, and the fact that it is named after a Pole. I’m sure that helps. After all, we know wokies *occasionally claim Poles as “POC”…
"First Nations" isn't new. It's been used for 10 years in the West. Probably less time in the East, though.
In Australia it is…
It doesn’t have cultural crowd here. It was not a thing, two years ago…
Canada ≠ Australia, dude…
We had our own words.
I misread. Thought you meant First Nations was a new term in Canada.