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Originally posted by WraothAscendant
reply to post by mazzroth
Actually yea its easy to NOT be racist when stuff like that happens. Like remembering it's not a entire RACE that did this but individuals.
Originally posted by mazzroth
www.thewest.com.au...
If your an Aboriginal in Australia hang your head in shame at this event on Christmas day of all things. Call me a rascist or what ever you like but today I am, and have had a gutfull of these pathetic scumbags.
If I calm down I might have to edit this post but for now my anger and rage is at boiling point, I feel like retribution using "payback" in their own traditions to teach them a lesson on civility.
Originally posted by W3RLIED2
All right so basically your saying that you can justify being a racist becsause of the actions of a small group of individuals..... makes a lot of sense to me...not.
If you want to hear it plainly, i'm guessing you've had some sort of pent up racial agression before and this is just an excuse for you to come right out and say it.
The actions of few should not put a whole entire group of people in check.... Theres been plent of individuals who have done things to make people extrememly upset.... but by your logic if one person or small group decides to make a bad decision the whole race should be blamed..... doesnt make much sense buddy.
If you CHOOSE to be racist thats entirely up to you, but to label an entire race bad becasue of the actions of one or a few is rediculous.
Also, if you choose to be racist, dont ever expect me to agree with you. We're all human, we're all made of flesh and blood. We all bleed the same color.... people like you are the reason i get in so many fights at the bar.
You can try and justify it however you want, but i know who the real problem is when it comes down to race.... its people like you.
Originally posted by W3RLIED2
i'm guessing you've had some sort of pent up racial agression before and this is just an excuse for you to come right out and say it.
Originally posted by mazzroth
www.thewest.com.au...
If your an Aboriginal in Australia hang your head in shame at this event on Christmas day of all things. Call me a rascist or what ever you like but today I am, and have had a gutfull of these pathetic scumbags. If I calm down I might have to edit this post but for now my anger and rage is at boiling point,
Originally posted by mazzroth
I feel like retribution using "payback" in their own traditions to teach them a lesson on civility.
Australian Aboriginal History
European settlers with more advanced technology arrived in 1788 from England and began re-colonizing.
They got on rather badly with the locals. Two primitive cultures based on force and exploitation (and nothing else in common) were bound to clash badly.
The European settlers were embarrassed by this, and the English ordered the Australian Governor to make a treaty with the native population. He was unable to do so, partly because of limited resources (life was not just brutish and short for the Aboriginal population) but mostly because there was no central Aboriginal authority to deal with. The Aborigines were in relatively small tribes, spoke many different languages and spent much of their surplus waring with each other. Negotiating with all of them was nearly impossible. The Local Governor reported this to his English command.
The English were embarrassed by this, and as a convenience they declared Australia 'Terra Nullius' (effectively uninhabited).
The European settlers passed many diseases to the Aborigines, who through their isolation for so long, had little resistance. In particular, two plagues of small-pox in 1792 and 1822 swept through the Aboriginal populations and wiped many of them out. There was also a plague of venereal disease, but many believe this was contracted from non-European fishermen in the north of Australia.
There was a low level war over a period of time. Aborigines would take sheep from local farmers (and eat them). Farmers would go and kill the Aborigines.
The area became the nation of Australia in 1901, and though it was basically democratic, Aborigines were not eligible to vote. They were not classified as 'Australians'.
The last mass-killing of Aborigines was in 1926 after a European-Australian was reported killed by an Aborigine, and a local-policemen collected a gang of people to kill the local tribe. The more senior authorities were embarrassed by this, and took steps to prevent it reoccurring.
Generally Aborigines were encouraged to move to 'settlements' away from the European infrastructure where they would cause less trouble.
The Europeans always considered Aborigines as racially inferior to them, and it was widely believed that they would simply 'die out'.