@aby You can call it socialism or left leaning but what this referendum shows is both the overwhelming meanness of 2/3 Australians and/or the gullibility that they believed the dross swilling around social media.
An educated, empathetic and open minded population wouldn't have voted this way.
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So the 97% Australians of Settler Heritage voted overwhelmingly against giving First Nations any voice at all at the big white table of government .
This shows that most of the AoSH majority have brought ALL their nasty prejudices (and ignorance) with them when they emigrated here and have learnt nothing.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
Some people here need to understand that racism is primarily systemic. While there are individual aspects to it (yes, what your uncle said IS racist), that just not using slurs or being a "good person" doesn't mean you're not actively complicit in racism by reifying racist tropes that these systems rely on to keep functioning.
Everything exists within a context, and nothing happens in a vacuum.
Even if you "didn't mean it like that", it's still perceived that way and still lends power to systemic racism.
Yeah, it's tiring to constantly be aware of the impact your words have. Suck it up, sunshine.
This is what we mean by "doing the work". But no matter how tired you are, I guarantee it's literally nothing compared to the tiredness felt by those people who exist under that racist system.
It never ends. It needs to be done. Stop complaining and just get on with it and stop crying about it.
If one more settler tells me that the referendum results happened because of some reason other than anti-Indigeneity I'm going to fucking snap I swear.
Being okay with racism makes you a racist. In a fundamentally unequal society, there's little practical difference between hating POC and being wholly indifferent to their well-being.
In Australia's Parliament this afternoon (16th Oct) there was a debate around The Water Trigger. The Bill needs to pass bc it is urgently needed to ensure that gas fracking projects don't harm local water resources and the local environment.
In NT two projects are in the final stages of authorisation. Both will poison water in the local #indigenous communities.
Precisely.
Go without water ?
In Australia 2023 ???
Saturday's referendum NO-voters need to realise that the referendum wasnt about division, bc Australia has division and inequality ALREADY .
How about some fracking in Dutton's seat?? God forbid !!!! His supporters would demand a #Voice and rightly so.
How many Australians really KNOW anything about First Nations' hardships or how the machinery of White Australia racism really works?
Truth is, like all other #FirstNations globally, they are in the way of the colonising overlords who want to seize land and resources for their own use.
And historically those overlords just needed to "wipe out" those indigenous ppls by any means possible: massacres, displacement, theft, siege, exploitation, disease, death, imprisonment...
The way Australia's First Nations are being treated nowadays is nothing new. They are unheard and invisible and 60% of voters are just fine with that.
So far I'm seeing a lot of white and non-Indigenous people be shocked that Australia is racist, seeing them talk about how now they know where the most racist parts are they'll go elsewhere on holidays, and tone police Indigenous people for telling colonisers to fuck off.
Not using certain words is less about causing someone offense and more about recognizing the power of language, particularly colonial languages, to reinforce and validate systems of oppression.