Plankosaurus
Spongeplank Dalepantski
The mistreatment of our indigenous people didn't finish some 200 years ago. Plenty alive today have copped the arse end of some pretty shit official policy, and that's just official policy.you all do realise that theirs a damn good chance that, without the colonisation of Australia, that none of use would be here right now to discuss this point?
or possible some other country could have "invaded" Australia and literally wiped out the aborigines ?? and that no one would be able to learn thier history ? which we can do?
Im not going to deny what happened was horrible etc , but as a country i believe we are doing more and getting better , moving the date will not change the facts.
to me and many others aus day 26th jan, is about celebrating where we are today, from where we have come from , with ALL races that reside here.
holding onto past atrocities ( from 200yrs ago or more ) is not going to help anyone. nor will a date change , fix anything
That argument is bullshit. Doesn't matter what country took over, they'd have every right to feel hard done by. Maybe the Spanish would have treated them shittier, maybe the Dutch better, it doesn't matter because the poms did what they did.
I'm a 2nd generation Aussie, no one in my family had anything to do with any of this. I have no guilt and I don't feel the need to make up for anything. Descendants of the first fleet shouldn't feel any different either, unless they're proper cunts. Changing the date has nothing to do with guilt or apologies, it's simply about not celebrating a date that is widely regarded as the start of colonisation in the country.
The same argument get swung around all over the place. If you're celebrating our ace country you can do it on any day and it'll still mean the same thing, burn some lamb and smash some beer and drape a flag around your shoulders and be merry. If you're celebrating the first fleet getting here and can't bring yourself to look at it from the flip side of that coin, then you're a shit human and you deserve to have your day taken from you. Hard to see a reason to keep doing the 26th more compelling than "fuck you, I don't wanna change"
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