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.
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.
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.