Man we really fucked this place up
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By "we" do you mean "Europeans and their colonial spawn" and by "this place" do you mean "earth"?
Europeans werent the only colonisers. Just saying
They hate the truth! It hurts their eyes.
Slave. The word is slave. "Forced labor" sounds like it's downplaying the severity.
Didn’t know Australians still had slavery so late in history.
America still had slavery in the 1940s when the last slave was freed (might've been later than that) and it still has slavery in the form of prison labor
And we still have slavery. It is legal per the 13th amendment. Disgusting.
Can you tell me more about that?
Here's where I got this information, it's a long watch but well worth it. video
His videos are really detailed, fact based and eye opening for sure.
China still has slavery today.
Also India, many places in Europe, the Arab states, South and North America. Or do you mean China is specially “slavey”?
I mean sure maybe idk anything about china. What made you bring it up?
They didn't even class indigenous Australians as people, until late 1960's. They were considered fauna.
hahahahaha you think this is late???
Aboriginals we’re even denied a seat in politics just in the last few months. I remember being shocked they voted in Tony abbot ..who for years screamed about women’s menstruation in parliament. Australia is super backwards.
Abbott was also appointed Minister for Women.
The Voice which, if I understand correctly, wasn't an offer of a seat in parliament, it was a constitutional amendment that would allow an advisory board for Aboriginal and Torres strait islanders. They wouldn't have had any actual power any way.
It was a British penal colony up until 1840
He looks way too fucking smug
No John Browns in Australia.
It's crazy to me that people can look at this picture and then immediately start arguing about semantics.
Every one of those people said it's effectively slavery.
Even today, only cursory recognition that the Aboriginal people remain excluded from their own lands and ways
Hey you could get a token reservation increased policing a nation that thinks themselves native and have since 1740 at the very least.
"We forge the chains we wear in life." -some white person.
That statement isn't about slavery, or labor, it's about emotional bondage.
The statement is about whatever the last person to crotchet it on a pillow believed it to be.
It's a quote from Dickens, A Christmas Carol. It's about our sins binding us to misery or torment.
That enormous cockhole Rolf Harris sung about this in Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport like it was no big deal. And it was a huge hit and no one said anything.
I can't speak for anyone else, but the lyrics you wrote are the only lyrics to the entire song that I know, and I've always thought it was just some weird gibberish. Granted, I've never actively listened to it or sought it out, I've only heard it in passing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_Me_Kangaroo_Down,_Sport
There was an offensive verse in the original song, later deleted. But this is far from the most offensive thing about Rolf Harris.
Holy fucking shit…
What is with the odd looking rib cages; I guess these are torture burn/whip marks, as they don't look like regular ribs at all?
Look like scars
I think it might be ritual scarification, but it could be torture marks as well. I'm not well-versed on this period or region of history.
What fine, upstanding men there were in days gone by.
They look like they don’t give a shit. What is the story of this photo?