I actually can't believe it has come to this. My ancestors would be appalled.
Honestly, it's shit like this that makes me largely give up on Australia. This was extrajudicial. There's plenty of CCTV in that area, and the police know that these commie vandals regularly target the statue. Yet they did nothing, and nothing will be done in response. And people I know will cheer this on, and gloat about it.
I'm done. I'm so fucking done. We can't vote our way out of this. We can't legislate our way out of it. How the fuck are we legally meant to stop this, when they've captured all our institutions?
Absolutely disgusting. Like toppling a statue of Jefferson or similar in the States.
I mean, Donald Horne, who coined that, meant the phrase to be ironic, and was already lamenting our apathy, and terrible political leadership in the book within which it was written...
Unfortunately, because said phrase and book hit a nerve, the media ever since that time has gone out of its way to misquote and misinterpret it. But yeah, it was always intended to be perjorative...
Not that we aren't lucky, in the sense of abundant natural resources, being surrounded by water, being relatively politically stable, etc., however the apathy you mention was definitely already abundantly apparent by the 60s, when Horne wrote about it...
I did not know that. I'll put the book on my reading list.
I find the study of Australia to be woefully lacking. The Tyranny of Distance, while not an overly provocative book, shattered 3 or 4 central myths about Australia and our history for me.
Like toppling a statue of Jefferson or similar in the States.
Ah, yes... about that.
From late 2020: No trial, no jail for man who destroyed [Christopher] Columbus statue https://archive.ph/yS0Le
Meanwhile, several other statues around the metro area have fallen prey to similar treatment at the hands of vandals with a social justice agenda.
A statue of former President George Washington that used to sit across from the Minneapolis Institute of Art was torn down and covered in paint on Thanksgiving.
That same day, a monument to the pioneers who settled in Minnesota was spray-painted with left-wing slogans.
There are probably several other stories like this, but this one popped into mind first as it was local and extremely similar.
Yeah, I was gonna say - Columbus was unambiguously a bad guy (even if his "discoveries" obviously resulted in current-day North America), but obviously that argument doesn't exactly fly for someone like Washington...
Although personally, I would go as far as to say that we shouldn't be tearing down any of these statues - Columbus, Lee, etc., included...
I actually can't believe it has come to this. My ancestors would be appalled.
Honestly, it's shit like this that makes me largely give up on Australia. This was extrajudicial. There's plenty of CCTV in that area, and the police know that these commie vandals regularly target the statue. Yet they did nothing, and nothing will be done in response. And people I know will cheer this on, and gloat about it.
I'm done. I'm so fucking done. We can't vote our way out of this. We can't legislate our way out of it. How the fuck are we legally meant to stop this, when they've captured all our institutions?
Absolutely disgusting. Like toppling a statue of Jefferson or similar in the States.
the trouble with being the lucky country is that it quickly becomes the apathetic country.
I mean, Donald Horne, who coined that, meant the phrase to be ironic, and was already lamenting our apathy, and terrible political leadership in the book within which it was written...
Unfortunately, because said phrase and book hit a nerve, the media ever since that time has gone out of its way to misquote and misinterpret it. But yeah, it was always intended to be perjorative...
Not that we aren't lucky, in the sense of abundant natural resources, being surrounded by water, being relatively politically stable, etc., however the apathy you mention was definitely already abundantly apparent by the 60s, when Horne wrote about it...
I did not know that. I'll put the book on my reading list.
I find the study of Australia to be woefully lacking. The Tyranny of Distance, while not an overly provocative book, shattered 3 or 4 central myths about Australia and our history for me.
Ah, yes... about that.
From late 2020: No trial, no jail for man who destroyed [Christopher] Columbus statue
https://archive.ph/yS0Le
There are probably several other stories like this, but this one popped into mind first as it was local and extremely similar.
Yeah, I was gonna say - Columbus was unambiguously a bad guy (even if his "discoveries" obviously resulted in current-day North America), but obviously that argument doesn't exactly fly for someone like Washington...
Although personally, I would go as far as to say that we shouldn't be tearing down any of these statues - Columbus, Lee, etc., included...