What you've done here, is bigotry. You've labelled a whole group of people with one brush. You've also the doubled down and added a bit of racist ideology in there.
You can label people's comments however you wish but it doesn't make it true. Yet if it's people labelling the entire Australian community for being guilty of what's happened to the indigenous community then it's apparently a fair comment.
I mean, if it is a bigoted statement, then it does make it true.
No no, don't misconstrue things. No one is labelling the entire Australian community of being guilty for what happened. We are labelling them guilty for continuing to honour it. Very big difference.
You literally said it was only Muslim kids, and that all family networks of those kids that are involved in organised crime. If you wish to provide your sources on only Muslim kids doing it, please do. It's only only one brush because your statement implies no other families or groups from other races and cultural backgrounds are involved in organised crime.
Oh, so white kids are just silly and don't know what they are doing. They are probably just joking. Silly Billy. I wonder why Muslim kids feel strongly about Gaza, not the like the place has been under siege for more than 70 years and is the world largest open air prison. Not like the media labels Islam as the enemy and that Muslim kids are subjugated to constantly being labelled a terrorist or from a terrorist religion. Every right-wing neo-nazi group is literally made up of only white people. Those people had their convictions as a young person and decided that it was so strong they needed to form their identity around it, form groups, and engage in political activism around it. Once again, I've taught and I teach Holocaust education. I've had stronger disdain from white kids, than from any Muslim, Jewish, Brown, Black or ethnic kid.
The Australia Day protests and discourse has plenty of shouting that Australia people are guilty of genocide. Of course it's a rubbish notion but that bigotry will just be ignored.
It's a joke and frankly heartbreaking as they've been given a chance at a good life but shit from the old country follows them. There are women from such cultures who have been killed for defecting. My dad had a Turkish Australian apprentice on the building site in the 90s and the family forced him to contribute a lot of his pay to a pot as other members were designated as non workers. He was fed up and had enough influence around him that he wanted to be Australian. His family disowned him. I get this is a cultural thing but to think all of this honour crap overrides the love or gift of life is frankly sad.
I'll repeat Loving your country and patriotism are different.
I think if you ask any indigenous, apart from the hard right aboriginals, that they do not want division & what they want is respect, for them as human beings & for their history, understanding, that their way of life was totally different way of life that was brought here 250 years by the Europeans & a voice to express their culture, history instead of being looked upon has getting handouts & drunks.
All of it together as a matter of fact. The official Australia day celebrations are generally done well with a combination of indigenous cultural and respect followed by celebration of all in the modern time. I get the view it's somewhat tainted as it'll tiptoe around controversy but the aim is to get the most possible positivity out of the day.
This is the problem with minority or oppressed groups. Once they start thinking for themselves and maybe even go to the conservative political side, the left shrieks that they're traitors or misguided.
Perhaps some South American countries in regard to their indigenous communities. It's interesting to see the ethnic make up of many countries on Wikipedia and you wonder how the 4% in Togo are going.
Years ago me and an ex pat mate who lived in NYC were in a bar in Midtown getting drunk & having a good laugh on the Yank definition of the word "root". So we are the end of the bar saying root this & root that and howling with laughter and the combos were coming up with when some guy told us to be quiet and we told him that we'll be rooting for him later on when he fails to pick up women. He got really mad for some reason and called me a kangaroo fucker which I thought was pretty good actually. The barman, knowing where his tip bread was buttered ( we were pounding the old wallet that day ) told the guy to leave and come back later.If he said that in an angry manner, you have clocked life
As someone who pretends to work with indegenous affairs I would have expected, at the very least, you were aware of the various stolen generation redress schemes in place already?
Had the yank done his homework he would've called you a kangaroo rooter as it were.
So it "aint my country" eh? Didn't take long for that little gem to come out....
I'll get cut down for speaking for others but I'm sure he's aware of this stuff. What you've done is equivalent to the wife complaining the kitchen is dirty and you've pointed the sponge out for herAs someone who pretends to work with indegenous affairs I would have expected, at the very least, you were aware of the various stolen generation redress schemes in place already?
WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme
Information about the WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme, including Support Services and payment information, eligibility, and how to apply.www.wa.gov.au
Tut tut. Remember, white people or evil Europeans don't belong to Oz but the bloke who arrived half a year ago on dubious student visa claim is absolutely part of what belongs in Australia. Make up your mind!
You couldn't make this up. Last visit to Australia was browsing Australiana kids books for my nephew. One book was about how Australian is a black nation just for the indigenous and everyone else is simply a guest on borrowed time. Utter tripe this is even published for children. Directly next to it, a kids book on how people from the more recent arrival waves, which have had their fair share of incidents, are Australians too and absolutely belong to the nation.
