mothra wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 7:31am:


A lie. Not even in remote Aboriginal settlements is everyone like that.

mothra wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 7:44am:


So not inevitable, then.
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Who let's this minority get away with it for so long? The majority. Why? It has cultural reasons. Every report says that because it is obvious.

Aborigines in remote areas do not mistreat each other because there are whites r Ind iiand or chinese somewhere thousands of kilometres away. That is corrosive excusing of bad behaviour and cultural tolerance of bad behaviour.

When whitey does it, it's the culture of toxic masculinity and sexism. When Aborigines do it, it's poverty, grief and loss.

mothra wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 8:12am:



mothra wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 7:05am:



Welcome to the Pandaverse!

It's all about poverty, lost, grief, slavery, colonialism and white supremacy.

mothra wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 8:48am:





Discourses of defining characteristic

If one examines Baudrillardist simulation, one is faced with a choice:
either accept Marxism or conclude that consciousness may be used to oppress the
underprivileged. Baudrillardist simulacra suggests that sexuality, somewhat
paradoxically, has intrinsic meaning, but only if reality is distinct from
culture; otherwise, we can assume that the significance of the writer is social
comment. Therefore, Lyotard uses the term ‘constructivist deconstruction’ to
denote the role of the participant as artist.

The primary theme of the works of Stone is not, in fact, theory, but
pretheory. However, a number of discourses concerning the role of the poet as
participant may be revealed.

Bataille uses the term ‘poststructural materialist theory’ to denote not
narrative, as Baudrillardist simulacra suggests, but subnarrative. But Bailey[11] implies that we have to choose between Marxism and
posttextual materialism.

Sontag’s critique of Baudrillardist hyperreality suggests that academe is
capable of significant form. Therefore, the characteristic theme of Pickett’s[12] model of Baudrillardist simulacra is the bridge between reality and class.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 9:09am:



More regurgited poorly understood facts from Ecky.

But hey, just say it with confidence, no?

Sure there was bloodiness and warfarring ... but there was also art, music, spirituality, rich family bonds, deep understanding of the environment, trade, ..etc.

But you just keep on going on about how inferior they all were til we got here. I know it makes you feel better.

mothra wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 9:19am:

Something affluent philanthropists quickly learn is that the quickest way to foment social discord, upheaval and inter-communal violence is to privilege one village/tribe/ethnicity over their neighbours.

Seems we're primally hard-wired to resent the good fortune or advantage of those groups over our own. The same can be witnessed among all high-order primates.

John Smith wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2024 at 9:42am:

Of course there was!

Think of the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English/British going to war with each other over the resources of the new world(s) as they were being discovered...

Think of Elizabeth I of England giving assent to an alliance with pirates and the English against the Spanish in the Americas.

Think of Cortes forming alliances with several Indigenous tribes to conquer the Aztec Empire.

Think of the British forming alliances with several indigenous North American tribes against the French and (as a side act and trade) the Indigenous traditional enemies of the collaborators.

Think of African tribes exploiting other tribes to fuel the transatlantic slave trade.

Think of impoverished Chinese workers' resentment of being used as slave labour to supply us and others with cheap goods.

etc...

So taking the actual number killed and working it out as a percentage - 94% deaths of women in the NT are Aboriginal - is 'selective use of statistics'?  And the reality that most of those occur in the 'remote areas' does not indicate that such a level of personal violence has any 'cultural roots'?

Were you raised in Fairyland or something?  You never saw how rough even kids can be at school and how ready to turn to physical violence and bullying - including girls - they are to settle any dispute? 

My old German neighbour once said to me that children are born savages and it is our job as parents to civilise them... when a child grows up in an environment where that early stage of 'settling disputes' by force remains the norm - that is what they do.

The Abo bloke here who has the wild eyes etc and hates on 'white counts'  etc - he wasn't picked on at school here or by our locals - he copped his wild eyes and his simmering violence from his 'home life' ..... now I don't know what that tells you - but it tells all sensible people plenty.

It's generational, it's cultural, it has nothing to do with 'oppression' and 'poverty' - the proof is that not all turn out that way... it's not that long ago we here in Australia got out of the idea that all differences are settled by a good punch-up - still persists with some - and that is right across the 'culture'.

Now we are all civilised, no?  So the Outliers need to be re-trained - not coddled in their ways...

Look at that recent murder in the NT - bloke does time for 'manslaughter' for killing 'his woman' - kills another woman..... look at that woman who ran from ultra-violence in a remote community up there, and who was then pursued after the perp got out, and bashed brutally again, leaving lifetime injuries...

WTF is the matter with you - you and a few others who flatly refuse to address the real issues - but try instead to score Brownie points by attacking others who know better than you ever will?