Strange headline here :-   Bruce Pascoe has committed no offence..

Note the cunning here - no indication of actual support for dear Bruce, just a vague hint that others are accusing him of an offence, rather than of being offensive to all and an offence to Indigenous people themselves.... not to mention an offence against reason...

"Me uncle told me when I were but a boy... he was the only one even mentioned this, so I decided I'd create of meself the New Aboriginal Messiah and spread my Khoran like good ol' Mo did long ago... that's how it's done!  Only have to say positive things about the Golden Age of Aborigines and nobody can shoot down that kind of sacred cow.... easy as pie...."

Way down south near Eden, the archeological finds are middens - rubbish heaps of oyster shells etc... yeah, Btro - we had settlements there... we just moved 'em along the beach and stuff whenever we run out of oysters... but they was permanent temporary dwellings... portable, you know...

A not unsubtle difference there..... and I still shudder over his use of 'we' when discussing Aboriginal issues... who's this 'we', White Man? 

So Brian is leaping to the defence of Bruce - not on the merit of his arguments - but on the basis that poor widdle Brucey is being unfairly criticised.... so somehow in Brianland that equates to Bruce being right about everything.....

Then add to it this:-  not being charged with a criminal offence (who goes around charging people for saying they're Koons?) is now meant to be a statement that Dear Bruce is not only innocent - but somehow 'right' in his assertions... the two are not the same and the same could equally be said about any statement by any person about anything.... but we don't just accept without question such statements... (though I know about them Aboriginal pyramids - just don't tell Bruce - it might set him off again, and I believe we've heard enough)...

Brian Ross wrote on Jul 12^th, 2020 at 1:38pm:


You'd be one of the "nearly" category ey?

You earn respect .... it's not just given.

People can be afforded courtesy ...... but have to earn respect.

Gnads wrote on Jul 13^th, 2020 at 7:35am:

True. Mundine is a different guy away from the Media light. He has given a lot of his money to charitable efforts, although he milks the Media with notoriety. Good 'boxer', but too 'back foot' for my liking - much to his demise.
Fenech also milked the Media - but he really is the Marrickvile 'Mug'.
Older Boxers never had much Media backing for $$$ income. They had to 'carry' fights to make $$$.
One such was the Liberty Valance (35 pro fights) who I got in the ring with at Geale's gym (I only managed one good shot in a few rounds. He was way too good and could easily put away the likes of Mundine, Sony Bill, etc).

This is the demise of Australian Sport that, many males lack that 'professionalism' outside the Sport.
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Joseph Campbell was the best Mythologist around in his time. An 'expert' on North American (and other global cultures) Indian culture - but he wasn't 'indian' himself. Still, highly respected by both Indian and non-indians upon the subject. Does that make him a Fraud, Racist, etc?

Jasin wrote on Jul 13^th, 2020 at 6:33am:



Progress being made in what exactly? 

I know that's always a hard question for you and Brian etc, but how about you try to answer it.  And while you're at it, why not attempt to provide some genuine answers to real problems for Aborigines instead of your off the planet ideas of ancient cultural groups etc (but that's not 'racism').  And while ever people play the division game and call me a racist for no good reason, I will continue to call Koons Koons and refuse to even bother with their fantasies about some mythical golden age, and especially when their Messiah is as white as the snow and lying through his teeth about 'Aboriginal heritage' and 'we' while unashamedly self-promoting his silly book(s) and his equally silly 'professorship' of absolutely nothing.

Why are the victims and virtue signalers everywhere?




We argue that contemporary Western democracies have become particularly hospitable environments for victim signalers to execute a strategy of nonreciprocal resource extraction because several features of these societies make victimhood potentially advantageous. First, the spreading of egalitarian values in the West leads many people to perceive any differential outcomes as evidence of overstratification; hence, they conclude that status differences between individuals and groups in society that are associated with these outcomes are illegitimate (Black, 2011). People who signal victimhood because they perceive themselves as being deprived of what others possess, or are treated in a way that others are not, can therefore find a receptive audience among many who detect their signal. Second, the alleviation of human suffering is treated as a paramount value in Western societies. This heightened sensitivity to suffering, coupled with the ease of bidirectional mass communication, such as on social media platforms, has increased the reach and effectiveness of recruiting third-party support for people signaling victimhood.
https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Ok-et-al.-2020.pdf

Frank wrote on Jul 13^th, 2020 at 1:46pm:


Yes - only in a country that protects and defends their 'right' to object to any or all of it can such movements prosper.

Historically we allowed the sheilas to get away with it in the genuine interests of equality - then found that appeasement would never be enough until they occupied the whole continent, or had Quislings in place to make it look as if they didn't.  Labor men are just such Quislings.

There will never be peace in our time while ever our 'governments' appease the endless troupes of whining nay-sayers and self-servers who stack branches and exert undue pressure in the media that frightens and herds politicians into line for fear of being called, misogynist, racist, homophobic or some form of hater for simply saying NO to the endless demands...

In order to see the light of day once more, Sane Society must endure blood, sweat, loss and tears to restore Sanity .... and there is now no New World to look to since it is in an even more dire strait than we are .... this is indeed our Darkest Hour....