Apparently she doesn’t use the English word for “mother”, but replaces it with her own Abo language group (in this case, I assume Gamilaroi) equivalent… Because she hates the “colonial language” that much. Despite being married to a white man with a Scottish/Irish surname…
Throughout that ABC article are all these absurd examples of why the singular “they/them” fundamentally does not work…
Fuck me these people are tiresome…
Also throughout she brags about her money and success (“Look at me, I get to live in the lap of luxury”) and how she “deserves it all” owing to the “trauma” she has suffered…
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.
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.
Apparently she doesn’t use the English word for “mother”, but replaces it with her own Abo language group (in this case, I assume Gamilaroi) equivalent… Because she hates the “colonial language” that much. Despite being married to a white man with a Scottish/Irish surname…
Throughout that ABC article are all these absurd examples of why the singular “they/them” fundamentally does not work…
Fuck me these people are tiresome…
Also throughout she brags about her money and success (“Look at me, I get to live in the lap of luxury”) and how she “deserves it all” owing to the “trauma” she has suffered…
Sigh
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.
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...