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...
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...
"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.