freediver wrote on Sep 6
th, 2023 at 9:53am:
Quote:That would mean that they are not entitled to a mention in their constitution either ?
Would you like to elaborate on this sense of entitlement you are projecting onto others?
The argument put in the topic is that Aboriginals are not entitled to constitutional consideration because they are to some extent a mixed people not a race.
Most nationalities are mixed people. Does it not follow that these other people if judged to the same standard would also not be entitled to the same ?
That would include Australians and almost all nations who have a constitution as we are all mixed. The word race is just a furphy in the discussion. The fact is that the Aboriginal people were in Australia for centuries before anyone else and that Australia was not terra nullius. In terms of recent discussion.
In terms of the original post saying that because Aboriginals are a mixed people (using different terms) That it is not racist to abuse them based on their identification. While this would seen logical it would also apply to every other people. For example the Jewish people are not a race nor most other people of the world.
I am reasonably sure that even though jewish people are not a race it is still considered racist to be aggressive against them in a number of ways related to their nationality. Our resident fascist / white nationalist is cleary making an unsustainable argument when the concept is expanded.
Part of the issue here is that it seems that the term race has been somewhat incorrectly applied interchangeably with nationality and that the term racist applies to nationality race or peoples.
The reality is that there is only 1 race - the human race, all other classifications are sub to that.
In the 20th century the races were considered to be,
Negroid (Black) race.
Australoid (
Australian Aborigine and Papuan) race
Capoid (Bushmen/Hottentots) race.
Mongoloid (Oriental/Amerindian) race.
Caucasoid (White) race.
OH and by 20th century standards Aboriginals are indeed defined as a race.