Black Orchid wrote on Dec 21
st, 2022 at 11:53am:
I accept that Australia Day is a celebration for ALL Australians to give thanks for all the things we love about Australia.
To acknowledge and celebrate the contribution that every Australian makes to our beautiful nation. It's an acknowledgement of our history not a celebration of it nor should it be changed.
As for immigrants, didn't they come to Australia for these very reasons?
Careful - to phil and the others that is clearly racist.... he likes to see racism instead of reality...
I said the exact same things and added that if the malcontents didn't like it here they could pack their bags... off he went from stage one in the discussion on his worn-out 'racism' screeching..... another fourteen year old in an adult body....
How many times must I say we are all Australians, all recognised in the Constitution, and all have the same Rights before someone stops screaming at me that I'm racist for simply stating those simple truths?
Of course the immigrants came here to find a better life - mine left Scotland, Ireland and Germany during the dark days of the mid 1800's when there were real prohibitions on the activities of the Irish, Scottish and Jews in Germany including discriminatory laws and even abject poverty and disempowerment for those of English/Welsh/Cornish extraction - you don't see our Abos or immigrants suffering under any different laws and restrictions here - though Peccary would have it they are all oppressed in Australia... so oppressed here that given their essentially patriarchal family structures in the case of many ethnics, where they are guided by parents and are obedient, they end up becoming doctors and lawyers and such instead of date pickers or rice paddy fillers fighting off their neighbours and hoping the government won't decide to genocide their group, etc.
Nobody kicks your door down at 3AM and carts you off to a show trial and a firing squad for speaking out against the government etc... nobody hangs you from a crane or throws you from a high place for being gay or whatever here ... many Greeks came here during their bloody civil war... Italians came here to get away from impoverished Italy and all its problems.... Euros came here to escape the eternal internecine wars and strife ... all were welcome and many prospered and prosper mightily.... yet some of them want to bring the place down and reduce it to a Third World sh
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t-hole where they can climb the remaining dung heap .....
Stoopid is as stoopid does.... pack your bags then ...
Some people are so stupid.....