Jasin wrote Yesterday at 5:34pm:
Yes. Aboriginalism should forgive the British for who they were and what they had to go through to survive in just 2000 years of incredible change, let alone what they still have to go through in the future.
Aboriginalism refuses to acknowledge the histories of other people's that have come here and why. Instead, they just push their own cause of keeping their isolationism against the world as if it doesn't exist.
I'm not going to buy into the Irish v English stuff here, because that's just old world and it should stay there. The Irish are not privy to the Convict angle. Many English, were convicts too, as were others. Nor were the Convicts just the poor, so it was never about class either.
It was also not just about petty loaf of bread crimes, but murderers and other capital criminals from both rich and poor.
I think the Irish here cry poor and against English, just like Palestinians
do against Israel. It takes two.
‘’ I'm not going to buy into the Irish v English stuff here, because that's just old world and it should stay there. . . . ‘’
Trouble was it didn’t stay there, I’m old enough to remember looking for work and seeing job adds that said, in part ‘’. . . Protestant only, others need not apply. . .’’
Discrimination has been alive and well in Australia since 1788.
We even have the bullshit so called Cross of St Patrick incorporated in our Flag.
It wasn’t on the flag in 1788, thankfully.’
Well maybe you should watch Once Were Warriors about Maori who live in the past and the 'bigger men' Maori who, in the end scene, walk into the future.
Same goes for Irish & English here. There are Irish who hold onto the past and praise Ned Kelly, while the Irish futurists know that Kelly was a scumbag and move on away from a criminal past.
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