Leone invited strangers to light candles in a central Brisbane park on January 26, a date Australia’s Indigenous community views each year with dread, as it marks the arrival of British settlers, and the start of suffering for generations of their people.
That's such sloppy writing. Dread often implies anticipation, as in for future events. This is reinforced because everything that follows also is in the present tense. It sounds like they fear this day because, every year, the British arrive all over again, and guarantee suffering for future generations.
But even if you read it in a more sensible way, it's still deranged.
It is quite literally the best thing that ever happened to them. Colonisation was the difference between them being prehistoric hunter-gatherers and being a privileged caste sustained by a first world country.
No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.
'These people have stared for millenia at the ocean, yet never had the curiosity or wisdom to attempt the building of a ship. Their only concern is what they will eat and drink this day, and where they will sleep this night. They have no apparent concept of future, of aspirations beyond meeting their own physical needs, of art beyond rudimentary scratchings. They in fact seem to have no understanding of the conceptual at all, comprehending only the immediate, the physical and the visible and regarding all else with a childish disinterest or suspicion.'
That's not how I read it. It's like how someone who lost a member of their family in the Twin Towers might dread 9/11. Obviously that person can't die again, but it's a painful reminder.
Now how much emotional resonance events that are long out of living memory can have is another question.
That's such sloppy writing. Dread often implies anticipation, as in for future events. This is reinforced because everything that follows also is in the present tense. It sounds like they fear this day because, every year, the British arrive all over again, and guarantee suffering for future generations.
But even if you read it in a more sensible way, it's still deranged.
It marks them having clean water and not having to live in the desert subsisting on lizards and vermin while being raped by their entire village.
Progressivism is a social and psychological disease.
It is quite literally the best thing that ever happened to them. Colonisation was the difference between them being prehistoric hunter-gatherers and being a privileged caste sustained by a first world country.
An actual, practicing stone age nomadic hunter gatherer people.
No medicine, no food preservation techniques, no buildings, no textiles. Literal caves and "humpies" made out of bark and sticks.
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No government, no ability to negotiate or make treaties.
Their cultural practices included infanticide for unwanted or sickly babies; Practiced regularly until the 1970s, and still ongoing in some communities.
If the average lifespan was 30 years I'd be really, really surprised. They had a huge infant and child mortality rate.
"Child Betrothal" of girls as young as twelve.
Brutal population control enforced by the tribes to ensure that their population never got bigger than the food supply, limited by the seasons.
Oh, and aboriginal tribes periodically wiped each other out entirely competing for resources.
'These people have stared for millenia at the ocean, yet never had the curiosity or wisdom to attempt the building of a ship. Their only concern is what they will eat and drink this day, and where they will sleep this night. They have no apparent concept of future, of aspirations beyond meeting their own physical needs, of art beyond rudimentary scratchings. They in fact seem to have no understanding of the conceptual at all, comprehending only the immediate, the physical and the visible and regarding all else with a childish disinterest or suspicion.'
Well, I certainly wasn't saying their assertion was correct.
I think leftists should give up everything made by white people if we're so bad. The problem would solve itself.
That's not how I read it. It's like how someone who lost a member of their family in the Twin Towers might dread 9/11. Obviously that person can't die again, but it's a painful reminder.
Now how much emotional resonance events that are long out of living memory can have is another question.