Closing the gap is essentially a communist idea - equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. But it is far easier to measure outcome than opportunity, which is why so many have latched on to it. And of course the industry of parasites have latched onto it because it means more free rides.

Closing the gap is dead simple to achieve. The easiest way to close the gap is for the government to take everyone's food away, so we all starve equally. But of course, then everyone would realise that closing the gap was the wrong goal to begin with.

Somehow, combining communism with racism magically erases all the problems of both communism and racism in the eyes of its promoters. Yet if you pay attention, it is easy to see that the entrenched problems with aborigines are attributable to the continued combination of communism and racism in government policy. This can be most clearly seen in remote aboriginal communities, where everyone is on welfare, no-one is expected to do any work, and there is no work available anyway. But because of racist attitudes there is no expectation that the situation be resolved, other than by giving them even more money and telling them how much we respect them, while they live in squalor, drink themselves to death, beat their wives and rape their children. Oh, but we can ban alcohol. We would not tolerate abolition among white people, who can handle their alcohol, but it is OK for aborigines, because alcohol is destroying their communities (not communism or racism). So we have bandaids on top of bandaids on top of bandaids, with an ever growing bureaucracy of parasites to manage the bandaids and declare how wonderful they are for finally dreaming up a "working solution" to the problem. All to avoid having to treat aborigines as equals.

Please...

Stop hiding behind lazy, emotive labels to disguise the fact that you've got nothing of substance to offer.

Racism is about discrimination or prejudice based on race. Closing the gap is about eliminating existing racial inequities. It's not about treating anyone worse because of their identity, it's about recognising historical and ongoing disadvantage and correcting it. That's the very opposite of racism.

Communism refers to a political and economic system involving the abolition of private property and common ownership of resources. Closing the gap doesn't abolish property, collectivise anything, or dismantle capitalism. It's simply targeted public policy in health, housing, education, and employment, the bread and butter of every government, no matter what ideology they fly under.

What really unsettles people like you is the prospect of a level playing field. If the gap is closed, you'd actually have to compete on merit instead of coasting through a life of privilege, never having had to develop any. The thought of that frightens you.

And let's not forget, you can't call it communism while you're also frothing at the mouth about land going back to traditional owners. Those are mutually exclusive ideas.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 12:14pm:



I think if everyone in Australia just posted Twilight zone over and over again, the gap could be closed

ProudKangaroo wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 1:10pm:

Nonsense.

The greatest 'disadvantage', squalor, neglect, criminality and abuse occurs where everyone is an Aborygine:in the remotest Aborigyne 'communities' where there is NO community, no cohesion, no solidarity, no direction, self-respect. Aborignes suffer at the hands of other Aborigynes, not at the hands of whites. Aborigyne parents neglect and abuse Aborigyne children. School attendance is abysmal, school completion even worse.



You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Or to cite the horticultural variation, You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

freediver wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 1:45pm:


Communism is state ownership, full stop.

How are you struggling with such a basic definition?

What's really going on here is your fear of a world where our Indigenous brothers and sisters stand as equals.

You're free to object to traditional owners having a say over land or wielding real authority, but there are two things you should keep in mind.

First, it isn't communism. Don't cheapen the word by misusing it.

Second, you're sliding down a very ugly slope. The way you're carrying on, it starts with quibbling about co-management of country and ends with you fantasising about locking First Nations people in hermetically sealed compounds, selling tickets to the wealthy to go on safari hunts, branding the whole grotesque enterprise "Absoic Park" or some other dystopian joke.

ProudKangaroo wrote on Aug 25^th, 2025 at 3:19pm:

It is an idiotic misunderstanding by you, perhaps that's why.

It is common ownership in a COLLECTIVE, a commune. Like a kibbutz. 

State ownership is not communism.

The consequences are the same Brian, whatever label you put on it.