Quote:the lie is the implication that it has anything to do with skin colour. Skin colour didn't come into the decision.
So what I actually wrote is not a lie? Do you recall me pointing out that the rest of the paragraph says the exact same thing that you do when you think you are contradicting me? Is that why you keep doing your jellyfish impression, because you know where this is going? Have you read the rest of the paragraph yet?
Quote:yet it's not half as stupid as claiming you haven't visited uluru because you weren't allowed to climb it
How close did you get to it? Closer than the gift shop?
Quote:There is more to uluru than climbing it, in fact 80% of people that visit choose not to climb it, and they pay good money to not climb it. Trying to belittle it by claiming unless you climb it it's just visiting the gift shop further highlights just how dishonest you are.
I am not belittling it. I am calling it racist, sexist, and the imposition of superstition on others by law. I think it's a big deal.
Quote:When you visit a waterfall do you pretend you didn't visit because you didn't jump down the falls? Do you claim you didn't go see the crocodiles at kakadu because you didn't wrestle with them or pet them? Do you claim you didn't see the monkeys at the zoo because you didn't swing in the trees with them?
Do you claim you have visited a mountain when you only got close enough for a photo? And why are you so hung up on whether you can say you 'visited'. Bottom line is, you are banned from Uluru. You can visit the gift shop. You can take a photo from a distance. But the experience is diminished because the Aborigines feel compelled to impose their superstition on other people.