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.
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.