I find this topic particularly bleak and frustrating...
The closure of Ayers Rock, and everything that happened around that (and yes, I did climb, a month before it closed) was probably my first real big "red/blackpill", when I realised that this was a war, and that my "friends" would throw me under the bus to win woke points...
So this is... Pretty mortifying. Especially knowing that we are powerless. Voting won't work. Protesting won't work (it's very easy to just call any protestors "bigots" and dismiss anything they have to say). Essentially, this is, short of a major change in momentum/politic will, a foregone conclusion. They don't care what we, the voters, think. They don't care what disparate Aboriginal groups think. They only care what the loud, white "Abbo" activists in the cities think, and scream about.
This is, in essence, a true culture war, and "We, the people", are losing... :-(
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.
I find this topic particularly bleak and frustrating...
The closure of Ayers Rock, and everything that happened around that (and yes, I did climb, a month before it closed) was probably my first real big "red/blackpill", when I realised that this was a war, and that my "friends" would throw me under the bus to win woke points...
So this is... Pretty mortifying. Especially knowing that we are powerless. Voting won't work. Protesting won't work (it's very easy to just call any protestors "bigots" and dismiss anything they have to say). Essentially, this is, short of a major change in momentum/politic will, a foregone conclusion. They don't care what we, the voters, think. They don't care what disparate Aboriginal groups think. They only care what the loud, white "Abbo" activists in the cities think, and scream about.
This is, in essence, a true culture war, and "We, the people", are losing... :-(
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.