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...
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...
I'm fairly sure those white activists simply do not regard themselves as the same population as you, and that, left unchecked, this will manifest itself in far worse ways than merely renaming places.
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?
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...
I'm fairly sure those white activists simply do not regard themselves as the same population as you, and that, left unchecked, this will manifest itself in far worse ways than merely renaming places.
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?