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wrong thread lol

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Mar 16^th, 2012 at 10:57pm:



WTF are you smoking?

Seriously.  Could you be any more of a living cliche?

barnaby joe wrote on Mar 16^th, 2012 at 11:58pm:



What are you, 12 years old?

FFS kid, go away and get an education before you start with that bullshit in here, ok?

barnaby joe wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 12:03am:


"says the living cliche."

Did your mum write that for you?

Seriously guys, if all you're going to do is type school boy grabage like that, just stay away, OK.

Go back to your playstation and let the adults talk.

Uncle Meat wrote on Mar 16^th, 2012 at 11:55pm:


They are far from clichés. And later tonight I will list a number of readings from a university course on Australian history which will prove my point.

Annie Anthrax wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 5:35pm:


You're not being smug and privileged again are you, Annie?   

All of these texts come from the one course. A course on Australian history. Don't tell me it's a cliché to claim there's systematic anti-male, anti-white, anti-Western bias at university. 



Ann McGrath A National Story in "Contested Ground. Australian Aborigines Under the British Crown."

Basically, a text hell bent on claiming how horrible white men (males only, apparently white women were pure and innocent) treated aboriginals. This text frames colonization in a completely negative light. No mention of the benefits of civilization that was brought to Australia.



Ann Curthoys Men of All Nations, Except Chinamen in "Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia."

Basically, a text designed to induce guilt into today's white population because of how "we" treated the Chinese on the gold fields in the 1860s. Never once did it occur to Curthoys to look at the issue from the white's perspective; it's totally written from the postmodern deconstructionist racial lens parading as a Chinese perspective.



Patricia Grimshaw Federation as Turning Point in Australian History in "Australian Historical Studies" vol. 33 no. 118

Funnily enough, with a title like that you'd think that there would be some interesting details about the arguments for Federation. But no, it's just another text that goes on and on about how bad white men supposedly treated Aboriginals and white women. There's nothing in there actually about Federation at all.



Ann McGrath Beneath the Skin: Australian Citizenship, Rights and Aboriginal Women

One of the biggest attempts I've read to induce guilt into white Australians over the supposed sins of the past. Basically, all history of Australia is wicked, and, this is of course the fault of white men. Everything that went wrong with Aboriginals and women was the fault of the white male. While trashing Australia's effort in WW II, McGrath manages to write something positive: women taking the roles of men while they're away at war. (Apparently men's roles become "good" when women do them).



Kay Saunders The Dark Shadow of White Australia: Racial Anxieties in Australia in World War II

A text that highlights the racist attitudes Australians held toward the Japanese, Germans, and Italians during world war II. Fancy that, a country being suspicious of certain nationalities they're actually at war with. Germans gassing and slaughtering Jews, Russians etc, Japanese starving to death and cutting off the heads of prisoners. How dare Australians be suspicious of them!