Brian Ross wrote on Jul 18
th, 2024 at 10:25pm:
What is sadly missing from Australia today is a common understanding about Indigenous matters. We had the left, with their view that Indigenous Australians are nature's victims. Then we had the right's view that indigenous Australians are nature's dominators and deserve our contempt. Here is everybodies' chance to talk nice things about Indigenous Australians. That means that Gnads needs to shut up and so does Grappler if they cannot say anything nice, while dear old Matty needs to keep his mouth shut. Indigenous Australians have been victims of so much ill thought out White Government stupidity and idiocy such as the Stolen Generations. Yes, folks such things did happen and Indigenous people suffered because of them. Time to get over them and accept them. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
The sort of dialogue you're suggesting is an impossibility here as Grap has already proven which his outburst.
It's a shame because there is far more to the story and for those who don't wish them genocide and aren't triggered by the idea of telling it, it's needed to move forward and not let the sins of the past dictate the path and progress of the future.
That said, it can't be forgotten and it does need to be acknowledged to heal, reconcile and move forward.
But some posters here, and I'll leave their motivations be discovered by the reader, will flat out refuse to accept that the stolen generation even happened, and if they conceded it did, they'll paint it as a necessity of the time.
There are too many like that here to have the sort of dialogue you're suggesting.
This is simply the wrong venue for it, too many mouth breathers.