UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2014 at 9:31pm:
I'm well aware of what the context of the cartoon was about. It was about tarring the rest of the country over the mistakes of the few in our country.
Was it? I thought it was mocking the Prime Minister's claim that we've never had such things in "our country".
Quote:Simply because they may have died within our borders. It doesn't make us a bunch of head hunters, now does it?
Ah, but the taking of heads does, don't you think and that was the very point the cartoon was making - white colonists did take heads. They often shipped them off to European scientific institutions for "study" and display. Rather similar in principle to what the Salafists do, when they make a video of their head taking, don't you think?
Quote:But trying to disseminate misinformation about 65,000 aboriginals getting killed and implying evasively that they were all beheaded, that's getting really rough.
Is it? Why? No more than the implication that many here draw from what the Islamists have done and blame all Muslims. Rather in the way Tone Rabbit has implied that blame be passed to all Muslims by suggesting that Muslims need to join "Team Australia"...
Quote: Quote:As to my sympathies, it would depend on the circumstance. I'd at least make an effort to understand their viewpoint, as I would hope they would make an effort to understand mine. It's all about reconciliation, now isn't it? Not about perpetuating the mistakes and the wrongs of the past.
Oh please, Brian. Mr Munga kicks down your door. Has a machete at hand, and starts chopping up your family. Do you sit there debating some historical context of what his ancestors have been through, or do you immediately take up arms against him in some sort of defensive strategy, and try and subdue him? The idea of letting an attacker win over the victim, because the attacker is from such and such ethnicity, is such rubbish that I doubt that the lords had it exclusively their way over the peasants of middle aged England. You debate the context, after it's all over. Personally, if someone used their racial background as an excuse for criminality, I would just chalk that one up to being another reason to not let people use the race card.
Appears you have a reading comprehension problem. What part of "it would depend on the circumstance," didn't you understand? If my family or myself was being directly threatened, then obviously I would attempt to defend them and myself. However, if Mr. Munga knocked on my door and asked whether I supported the theft of his land/the destruction of his culture/the destruction of his family/etc., I would speak to him as civilly as he had asked the question.
Quote:"Ackbah" is really stringing you along, Brian.
Who's "Ackbah"? Is he a relation of Mr.Munga?