I found another article about this lady. It's talking about "indigenous academics" in Australia, and one of the pictures shows several people of different tribal groups. They are paler than I am, and my genetics score like 80% British Isles and the rest northern Germany.
Do these clearly white European people seriously believe they're abos?
Like, is this a common thing in Australia? It of course happens in American (Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Warren, Talcum X, etc) but we make fun of our fraudsters.
I scrolled through her Instagram. There's not even a single black person anywhere. I can't see any hit on mixed heritage in her features. Admittedly it can be very hard (or impossible) to tell by looks at times, but I would guess that at most she may have had a single great-grandparent aboriginal ancestor?? (1/16)? Or less??
Short version, yes, there are a lot of white looking people that identify as Abos for benefits. Do they believe it? Who knows. The mostly-white ones step up to speak for the Abos.
On this point, I would love to see them enforce some sort of... Financial criterion, for things like Abo-only scholarships and all the other gibs (because there's no way they would enforce any sort of "blood quotient" test, or anything like that, these days)... I really can't quite understand how someone from an obviously privileged background can magic up "Aboriginal ancestry" and then claim all that free shit (at my University they even have "Indigenous only" segregated study spaces, which is just... Yeah), when a poor white person, who doesn't have those connections, can't...
From what I've seen, this isn't even that "controversial" of an opinion. It's just that the ones who benefit from it (like Thunig) tend to be the loudest and most influential, and so of course they kick up a stink any time anyone brings this up, lol..
In the US, the tribes are allowed to identify their own members. So whether you qualify varies widely depending on what tribe you claim to belong to. Some enforce a blood quantum. Others do not. They tend enforce it if there's some casino money at stake... otherwise some rando tribe has little incentive not to give you paperwork. It's no skin off their back.
I have never a seen a "college Indian" live on a reservation. And I didn't go to college with any rez Indians. Poverty is endemic in those reservations, so living there would be a reasonable proxy for poverty, if not perfect.
Poor white who are not Indian get nothing, but that's par for the course.
The mostly-white ones step up to speak for the Abos.
See, this is one of the things which most annoys me. In no way whatsoever can Amy Thunig (or many of the university-educated "Aboriginals" I know who live in the cities, mostly on the East Coast) compare her lived experience to a full or half-blood Abo living in a remote community. They are completely incomparable. And in fact, a white person living out in Bourke, say, or even Alice Springs, likely has far more in common with said full-bloods...
And yet who are the ones who have all the political power, and push for divisive things like the Voice? Why, the entirely white-passing, usually upper middle class, urban "Aboriginals", of course! Because they stand to benefit the most. They're always the loudest, and the most (anti-white) racist. Pretty much always. And I bet, if you ask the majority of them, they won't even have been to somewhere like Maralinga or Roebourne, so their perspective on the actual issues out there is entirely warped.
I found another article about this lady. It's talking about "indigenous academics" in Australia, and one of the pictures shows several people of different tribal groups. They are paler than I am, and my genetics score like 80% British Isles and the rest northern Germany.
Do these clearly white European people seriously believe they're abos?
https://archive.is/zkzw1
Like, is this a common thing in Australia? It of course happens in American (Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Warren, Talcum X, etc) but we make fun of our fraudsters.
I scrolled through her Instagram. There's not even a single black person anywhere. I can't see any hit on mixed heritage in her features. Admittedly it can be very hard (or impossible) to tell by looks at times, but I would guess that at most she may have had a single great-grandparent aboriginal ancestor?? (1/16)? Or less??
Short version, yes, there are a lot of white looking people that identify as Abos for benefits. Do they believe it? Who knows. The mostly-white ones step up to speak for the Abos.
On this point, I would love to see them enforce some sort of... Financial criterion, for things like Abo-only scholarships and all the other gibs (because there's no way they would enforce any sort of "blood quotient" test, or anything like that, these days)... I really can't quite understand how someone from an obviously privileged background can magic up "Aboriginal ancestry" and then claim all that free shit (at my University they even have "Indigenous only" segregated study spaces, which is just... Yeah), when a poor white person, who doesn't have those connections, can't...
From what I've seen, this isn't even that "controversial" of an opinion. It's just that the ones who benefit from it (like Thunig) tend to be the loudest and most influential, and so of course they kick up a stink any time anyone brings this up, lol..
In the US, the tribes are allowed to identify their own members. So whether you qualify varies widely depending on what tribe you claim to belong to. Some enforce a blood quantum. Others do not. They tend enforce it if there's some casino money at stake... otherwise some rando tribe has little incentive not to give you paperwork. It's no skin off their back.
I have never a seen a "college Indian" live on a reservation. And I didn't go to college with any rez Indians. Poverty is endemic in those reservations, so living there would be a reasonable proxy for poverty, if not perfect.
Poor white who are not Indian get nothing, but that's par for the course.
See, this is one of the things which most annoys me. In no way whatsoever can Amy Thunig (or many of the university-educated "Aboriginals" I know who live in the cities, mostly on the East Coast) compare her lived experience to a full or half-blood Abo living in a remote community. They are completely incomparable. And in fact, a white person living out in Bourke, say, or even Alice Springs, likely has far more in common with said full-bloods...
And yet who are the ones who have all the political power, and push for divisive things like the Voice? Why, the entirely white-passing, usually upper middle class, urban "Aboriginals", of course! Because they stand to benefit the most. They're always the loudest, and the most (anti-white) racist. Pretty much always. And I bet, if you ask the majority of them, they won't even have been to somewhere like Maralinga or Roebourne, so their perspective on the actual issues out there is entirely warped.
Talk about out of touch, unfortunately...