I agree with you, by the way. You should see some of the comments that "Aboriginal activists" and self-flagellating white people, are posting on Facebook, about this, in response to ANYONE who dares object to it...
It's hate speech. Racist, vile hate speech. But they're "on the right side of history", so it's ok.
Some of it is straight out of 1984, some of it is straight out of literal struggle sessions in Maoist China. I'm not sure how we reached this point, but it's very scary that it has come to this.
And sure, we can say: "This is online. People wouldn't behave like this in real life."
Last year, they smashed up the car of backpackers who dared to climb "their" mountain, even before the official closure. There's been death threats. There's been assaults. And now this.
Tell me again who the "good guys" are..?
We're genuinely not far off the NSW state government endorsing these Abbo goons to go and smash up whitey for wrongthink. That's where this is headed.
Luckily these people must be the minority (3% of the population...), no matter how many self-hating whites play along. But still, shit gon' get messy...
The majority has been objecting to progressivism forever. Organized minorities will always the dominate the majority. Opinions of the masses are only relevant in so far as they give hope that this trajectory towards the zombie apocalypse could easily be averted after an absolute regime change.
I’ve always meant to look up the relationship between aboriginal people and the original British colonists in Australia. Any recommendations? Non biased books? So they have activists who clamor endlessly about oppression like we do here? One of the funny things here are black people in their 20s or teens who grew up in nice suburbs but to hear them talk they have suffered more than any slave ever did. Same with some women and whatever other “marginalized” group.
Hope things get better. Ive always wanted to visit down there.
Keith Windschuttle is generally the sole "dissenting" (non-woke) academic voice on that particular topic.
But I would also recommend "The Secret River" (fiction) and "Arthur Phillip: Governor, Soldier, Spy" (non-fiction) for good early historical context...
Also, the classic, "For the Term of His Natural Life", which, while mainly focussed on the convict story, naturally touches upon some of this, too...
Robert Hughes' "Fatal Shore" is also probably a key book to start with. And maybe "The Cotton Papers" (about Tasmania), if you can find it.
Finally, Quadrant (https://quadrant.org.au/) and the Australian Spectator (https://spectator.com.au/) have both long-form essays and lists of "recommended readings", so that should be a good start.
For a centrist take, Griffith Review (https://www.griffithreview.com/) is ok. Sometimes a bit too "left wing", for me, but they do the job.
Left wing sources are ubiquitous, if you wanted those. The Conversation is at least academic (if very biased), and The Monthly... Well, at least it pretends to have academic rigour, if nothing else.
Aus Geographic is relatively not bad. It's "drier" than Nat Geo, so there's that. Occasionally they'll touch on these issues. Older editions are, naturally, going to be better. I assume they're available online.
Hope that gets you started!
If you ever do get down here - if you stay away from the capital cities (and especially inner city/wealthy areas), generally it gets much less woke, and more tolerable.
There's plenty to see here, still. It's just that, as you can see here, our "social betters" are utterly determined to take away anything they can, at every given opportunity!
We've only seen this sort of thing, with this sort of language, in national parks, since they did the same thing with Ayers Rock, in the last five years or so.
It's been getting more and more extreme. Much like Canada and parts of the US. But yeah, this is an outlier, even by those standards, unfortunately...
I would love to let these people be free of western infrastructure like they want. I don’t know Australian politics or policy but this seems crazy
I agree with you, by the way. You should see some of the comments that "Aboriginal activists" and self-flagellating white people, are posting on Facebook, about this, in response to ANYONE who dares object to it...
It's hate speech. Racist, vile hate speech. But they're "on the right side of history", so it's ok.
Some of it is straight out of 1984, some of it is straight out of literal struggle sessions in Maoist China. I'm not sure how we reached this point, but it's very scary that it has come to this.
And sure, we can say: "This is online. People wouldn't behave like this in real life."
Last year, they smashed up the car of backpackers who dared to climb "their" mountain, even before the official closure. There's been death threats. There's been assaults. And now this.
Tell me again who the "good guys" are..?
We're genuinely not far off the NSW state government endorsing these Abbo goons to go and smash up whitey for wrongthink. That's where this is headed.
Luckily these people must be the minority (3% of the population...), no matter how many self-hating whites play along. But still, shit gon' get messy...
The majority has been objecting to progressivism forever. Organized minorities will always the dominate the majority. Opinions of the masses are only relevant in so far as they give hope that this trajectory towards the zombie apocalypse could easily be averted after an absolute regime change.
I’ve always meant to look up the relationship between aboriginal people and the original British colonists in Australia. Any recommendations? Non biased books? So they have activists who clamor endlessly about oppression like we do here? One of the funny things here are black people in their 20s or teens who grew up in nice suburbs but to hear them talk they have suffered more than any slave ever did. Same with some women and whatever other “marginalized” group.
Hope things get better. Ive always wanted to visit down there.
Keith Windschuttle is generally the sole "dissenting" (non-woke) academic voice on that particular topic.
But I would also recommend "The Secret River" (fiction) and "Arthur Phillip: Governor, Soldier, Spy" (non-fiction) for good early historical context...
Also, the classic, "For the Term of His Natural Life", which, while mainly focussed on the convict story, naturally touches upon some of this, too...
Robert Hughes' "Fatal Shore" is also probably a key book to start with. And maybe "The Cotton Papers" (about Tasmania), if you can find it.
Finally, Quadrant (https://quadrant.org.au/) and the Australian Spectator (https://spectator.com.au/) have both long-form essays and lists of "recommended readings", so that should be a good start.
For a centrist take, Griffith Review (https://www.griffithreview.com/) is ok. Sometimes a bit too "left wing", for me, but they do the job.
Left wing sources are ubiquitous, if you wanted those. The Conversation is at least academic (if very biased), and The Monthly... Well, at least it pretends to have academic rigour, if nothing else.
Aus Geographic is relatively not bad. It's "drier" than Nat Geo, so there's that. Occasionally they'll touch on these issues. Older editions are, naturally, going to be better. I assume they're available online.
Hope that gets you started!
If you ever do get down here - if you stay away from the capital cities (and especially inner city/wealthy areas), generally it gets much less woke, and more tolerable.
There's plenty to see here, still. It's just that, as you can see here, our "social betters" are utterly determined to take away anything they can, at every given opportunity!
Cool! Thanks!!!
Oh it's definitely crazy all right.
We've only seen this sort of thing, with this sort of language, in national parks, since they did the same thing with Ayers Rock, in the last five years or so.
It's been getting more and more extreme. Much like Canada and parts of the US. But yeah, this is an outlier, even by those standards, unfortunately...