You implied it by your refusal to accept responsibility, Reboot. I apologise if I misunderstood your position. Your refusal to accept responsibility is however interesting. Are you prepared to hand over all the wealth that you, personally have benefited from through the dispossession of the Indigenous Australians? If you aren't how does that make you any different from those who were personally responsibility for what occurred?The Reboot wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2019 12:52 amPffft. I never said I didnt accept that it happened. Oh dearie dearie me, provide evidence where I said that, you twat.brian ross wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:23 pmYet you and all other Australians benefit from what was done to the Indigenous Australians, Reboot. You refuse to acknowledge what occurred and you refuse to pay them back for what was done to them. Oh, dearie, dearie, me, another person who refuses to accept the reality of what White settlement did in Australia. Genocide, theft of land, destruction of tribes, destruction of families, destruction of culture and religion. All crimes which the Australian Government has accepted and decided to do something in restitution for. Yet, you refuse to accept that it happened? Oh, dearie, dearie, me.The Reboot wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 7:52 pm"We owe them."
Like fuck
The only people I owe is my parents for raising me. I refuse to be forced to accept the blame for shit that happened years ago that had fuck all to do with me.
How about you try: "It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud." Proverbs 16:19. It might do you some good, Reboot...As it is, in this day and age, we have specialist services tailored specifically to Aboriginals. Hell there's an "Aboriginal mental health first aid" course that I had to complete, that detailed the differences between psychosis and "culture" (hallucinations vs "talking to spirits").
I work in human services and had a fella who spent eight years in jail, whiter than a ghost, explain to me that whilst in jail he had the luxury of gaining qualifications for free due to having Aboriginal blood -- a privilege that white men in prison have to pay for, he added.
The government needs to stop bending over and start treating people equally. We are constantly inundated with preaching and bitching about "equality" when in reality our situation is Nazism in reverse.
Quoting a bible verse now: "The meek shall inherit the earth".
Yet you appear unashamed at what occurred.I am well aware, thanks to goody goody two shoes like yourself, in addition to general education, that it happened. I don't deny that.
What individuals do is not germane to this debate, Reboot. You appear happy to live on ill-gotten gains. Consider who gave those gains and their circumstance. Was it fair? I don't believe so. We cannot undo what occurred but we can make amends. We can help them to overcome the problems that we, as a society and as a nation have caused them. We can make reparations.However - and this is what you retards don't seem to comprehend - *I* wasn't personally responsible for their demise. Should I and countless others take the blame and responsibility for shit that happened years ago simply because we have white skin? For somebody who claims to be so holier than thou in intellectualism, you're not very bright are you? I have walked down the main drag of Kalgoorlie and been abused for not giving these wretches money or cigarettes. I had also witnessed one jerking off in public, and another pissing on somebody's car in the Woolworths carpark.
No one is "clinging to the past." What is required is for people to acknowledge the past and then to move on and help repair the effects of past decisions, nothing more. We don't need people saying, "Oh, that was in the past! I wasn't responsible for what occurred." Problem is, you continue to profit from the decisions made in the past, Reboot...I agree with the notion cods and BO put forward - the past is the past. Nothing is ever gonna change positively if you cling to the past.
Interestingly I spoke to an Aboriginal lady once who claimed to despise Aboriginal corporations. The reason being, "they aren't interested in helping the poor and impoverished. They're just in it for the money."
A common complaint which could be levelled at any organisation be they white or black, Reboot. Be it the politicians, the Big End of town, the Unions or anybody else. The point is, you need to accept responsibility for what occurred and help to seek to put it right, today.