Brian Ross wrote on Jul 21
st, 2024 at 2:49pm:
UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 21
st, 2024 at 4:49am:
Brian Ross wrote on Jul 19
th, 2024 at 8:38pm:
Clearly you need to follow my advice. Either shape up or piss off, Graps. You seem unable to leave your ego at the door. Why? Are you so insecure in yourself that you need to insult and annoy people at the drop of a hat? You joke has worn thin. Time to leave it. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
Have you ever looked yourself in the mirror, Bryan, and thought about how left-wing, liberal you have gotten these days? This woke, virtue-signaling that you are performing is just getting out of hand. I mean, you are not as ultra left-wing as Bb from 20 years ago. But, you surely push the limits of credibility where supporting indigenous rights are concerned.
Could I offer you advice and tell you to ease up on the ultra woke persona? At the very least make the occasional concession, even to Grappler, once in a while. He means well.
UnSub, there is nothing, "Woke" about what I post. Indeed your effort to classify me as "woke" is insulting. I am aware of the plight of many Indigenous Australians, nothing more, far more than it seems Graps and Gnads are. They just want to insult people all the time. You, act more "woke" than I am. I am well aware of the problems Queenslanders inflict on Indigenous Australians all the time. They dislike their basic skin colour, they dislike their bids for land rights and they dislike the benefits they are paid. Time you woke up to yourselve and your society. Joh is dead and buried. His days are long gone, thankfully. His crooked Government is no more. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
The simple fact is that no one is disadvantaged just because they are Indigenous.
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Colonisation happened and was always going to happen. It brought things like democracy, freedom and prosperity that were not known to Indigenous people.
To the extent that progressives continue to blame “colonisation”, what they really mean is they want to keep up their resistance to real reconciliation and integration. They would rather keep their policies of separatism and paternalism and dress them up in academic language than solve the real problems. If we really do want to heed the lessons of our history there are only two ways forward.
First, we can continue along the separatist road that sees Indigenous Australians as irrevocably damaged by settlement and wants to keep Aboriginal culture stuck in time like a museum piece. Traditional culture is romanticised by those who do not live it, while reinvention of culture has become an industry in the name of reconciliation for the purpose of political influence. This movement aims to keep Indigenous Australians on country, where they are land rich, but dirt poor.
This way forward leaves negative parts of Indigenous culture alone to grow and fester. Things like violent cultural payback, arranged marriage and apportioning tragedies and mishaps to sorcery, all of which are anathema to modern culture.
This is a view that lowers standards for Indigenous Australians. It attributes language and practices to some groups that do not belong to them, as a way of building up the victimising feeling that “things were taken away”.
This has been the strategy of decades of government agencies and academic activists, and yet they fail to draw the obvious connection between this approach and the failure to make much ground on Closing the Gap.
We need a second way: the advancement movement. Under this movement, we are all Australians. We can learn and cherish our Indigenous culture while still meeting the same standards that every other Australian is expected to meet.
Our culture will be respected like never before when Indigenous Australians are making it thrive under their own steam and not as part of a welfare industry. That culture will become part of our national tapestry, rather than a separate story to be fought over.
Jacinta Price
Everyone is aware of the plight of the 20% of the 3%.
Everyone also knows that it is not because of their skin colour or insufficient land rights or inadequate benefit payments.