MeisterEckhart wrote on May 29
th, 2022 at 9:45pm:
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on May 29
th, 2022 at 9:27pm:
Not going to state the injustice and how you see it being fixed, eh?
Trouble with a lot of you is that you always play the man and not the game..... emotionally charged comments do nothing but bring retaliation.....
I merely ask for information from you - you are the one reading so much into it..... you inability to offer anything is not my problem - nor are the things that afflict too many in Aboriginal communities..... I didn't cause them and I cannot fix them.... and this is as much my country as theirs, OK?
I have more part-Abo relatives than you - like Smith - do you even know one to speak to? Or is all this flim-flammery just that?
How about you look at the actual statement and comment on it??? Too hard??
P.S. the very vast majority of those who prepared this statement continue to live on their native area - where is the 'dispossession'?
The fact that you use the word 'Abo' indicates you are unaware that it is considered derogatory. You are ignorant.
Yes. I have worked with and know aboriginal people and those of aboriginal descent.
That 18th century explorers did not recognise sovereignty over (and thereby ownership of) the land by the native peoples of that land, in the absence of a government they could recognise, is a poor reason to allow that ignorance to persist; notwithstanding that they overlooked the status of sovereignty issue (or ownership) when it suited them (i.e. in New Zealand and in some parts of the United States and Canada) - not that it prevented 18th, 19th, and even 20th, century governors from appropriating land regardless of some form of recognition of ownership.
Not at all - I use that term because people call me racist and bigot for discussing issues and facts.... we'll stop pissing in their Bovril when they stop sh1ttin in our boots, OK?
Name-calling is a puerile way of trying to stop discussion - I incite discussion by hitting back in kind and refusing to accept that a simple term is derogatory.... it's just short for Abo-riginal and is not derogatory like Niqqer or Coon (not the cheese - that's someone's family name) or Spade with a capital letter... or Slick... or Boong.....
Ya wanna discuss the issues in the Uluru Statement or do you just want to engage in a slanging match, Pilgrim?
I guess if you just keep stonewalling by name-calling and assumptions about others, you never have to look at the contradictions and absurdities in ideas such as this and policies and moves about certain groups without reference to the majority - in a democracy, no less.