Isnt it civilized here with all the Americans eating?????
No Right or Left madness. How are things with you??😷
70-79, M
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I wonder sometimes if the confllict here is like puppies or kittens play-fighting in a litter.
Occasionally one bites too hard and the other yelps.
Or like people loving to watch a fight in an arena and call it sport.
Occasionally one bites too hard and the other yelps.
Or like people loving to watch a fight in an arena and call it sport.
bijouxbroussard · F
@hartfire It’s deadly serious, with a lot at stake. When I was a teenager, a friend’s grandmother, who had survived the camps, said the scariest part was that reasonable people downplayed what was going on until it was much too late. They refused to believe what they were seeing with their own eyes. And they shamed those trying to warn them as "alarmist", "overly dramatic". When they finally believed, people were disappearing.
@bijouxbroussard Aah, you're right again - the history of the lead-up to the Holocaust - and similar trends for the Italians under Mussolini, the Armenian and Greek diasporas, and the persecution and execution of any targeted group in megalomaniac power struggles.
We recently had a majorly distressing loss over here, when Australia voted 60% against altering our constitution to give our First Nations people an institutional Voice to Parliament. It would have provided a means to ensure that all our indigenous peoples were fully consulted before introducing any legislation that directly affected them. Our present Labour Govt ran a poor YES vote campaign, not putting nearly enough energy into educating, while the right - the Liberal-National Coalition and further right minorites - did a brilliant campaign on the NO vote, raising scare tactics. The latter's most powerful tactic was to engage 3 well-known right wing Aboriginals to speak against it, claiming that The Voice was designed by a left wing intelligentsia and not respresentative of the majority of Aborigines and Torres Straight Islanders (which was not true). Unfortunately, it had a devastating effect in that many whites and immigrants of all backgorunds believed it. Now the cause is set back maybe by as much as 20 years.
Not all is totally bleak, however. Immediately after the failed referendum, South Australia and Victoria began the processes of creating Treaty and Voice at State level with each individual tribal mob (indigenous Nation/langauge group). This is already starting to show great success. There is also a movement building to create a series of Truth Telling sessions, so that anyone who wishes to tell their story publically may. It will be recorded on social media and paper, so that the documents and evidence will have full accessibility and wide reach. This will be a brilliant tool for the education of those who still know nothing about the cultural, political, historic, systemic, psychological and social issues.
Racism is still one of our most socially damaging issues here in Australia.
We recently had a majorly distressing loss over here, when Australia voted 60% against altering our constitution to give our First Nations people an institutional Voice to Parliament. It would have provided a means to ensure that all our indigenous peoples were fully consulted before introducing any legislation that directly affected them. Our present Labour Govt ran a poor YES vote campaign, not putting nearly enough energy into educating, while the right - the Liberal-National Coalition and further right minorites - did a brilliant campaign on the NO vote, raising scare tactics. The latter's most powerful tactic was to engage 3 well-known right wing Aboriginals to speak against it, claiming that The Voice was designed by a left wing intelligentsia and not respresentative of the majority of Aborigines and Torres Straight Islanders (which was not true). Unfortunately, it had a devastating effect in that many whites and immigrants of all backgorunds believed it. Now the cause is set back maybe by as much as 20 years.
Not all is totally bleak, however. Immediately after the failed referendum, South Australia and Victoria began the processes of creating Treaty and Voice at State level with each individual tribal mob (indigenous Nation/langauge group). This is already starting to show great success. There is also a movement building to create a series of Truth Telling sessions, so that anyone who wishes to tell their story publically may. It will be recorded on social media and paper, so that the documents and evidence will have full accessibility and wide reach. This will be a brilliant tool for the education of those who still know nothing about the cultural, political, historic, systemic, psychological and social issues.
Racism is still one of our most socially damaging issues here in Australia.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@whowasthatmaskedman I agree with you.
However I'm not totally despondent. I think the majority of our Indigenous peoples are starting to recovery from the shock, disappointment and grief, and are beginning to regroup and preparing to do a better job of widespread education of non-Indegines. I think the telling Truth to Power processes will help that process enormously. It might take another twenty years, but when we do get to equality within our public systems in will be a shift as great as banning slavery and universal voting.
However I'm not totally despondent. I think the majority of our Indigenous peoples are starting to recovery from the shock, disappointment and grief, and are beginning to regroup and preparing to do a better job of widespread education of non-Indegines. I think the telling Truth to Power processes will help that process enormously. It might take another twenty years, but when we do get to equality within our public systems in will be a shift as great as banning slavery and universal voting.