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.
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.
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.
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.