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Indigenous Voice Yes or No?
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Quote " Being conscious of Racial discrimination in Society & other forms of oppression & injustice , past & present " unquote. So it relates to my prior post of Woke. There is the Inactive Woke & the Active Woke. The Inactive, aware but does not take up the cause & looks to the future in peace. The Active Woke gets on the band wagon, thrusts it down every Tom *smile* & Harry's # throat & wants to turn back the clock apologizing for this that or whatever .
# Prime example. Three male names no female. To the Active "Discrimination against the Opposite sex ".
Aah, I get it now, so ignoring racism, sexism, homophobia et al is fine according to you.
No worries, we all knew where your prejudices lay before this post, they are everywhere.
No wonder you want to vote no, don't want to give those indigenous Australians a voice, being conscious of racial discrimination is something to be criticised.
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Nah I look at the Big Picture. The big picture to me is how my ancestors from day one survived allowing me to be born. They survived Tyranny ,Tempest, Famine, Plague, Wars ,Depressions etc etc . On my paternal side they lived in Scotland on the border with England. They endured the wars, banditry ,starvation but survive they did. They most probably had to slew before they were slain. I basically do not like the English but have a soft spot for them. They could not catch three brudders on my Irish Galway maternal side. They were what we call now Political Activists . If caught by the British the nearest tree & a rope was the norm. Two brudders caught a ship out ended up in US of A. The third, a ship out landed Port of Melbourne . Illiterate ,broke but He survived thus in the long run , Me . I am grateful for their resilience . I am grateful to be Australian . I am grateful to the people who have sacrificed their life in protecting this country. For those who sit back on their Wokey butt & dub me a racist, as I post Nay not Yea , suck it up . Open your eyes to the big picture in Putin ,Kim Il Jong & Xi Jingpin.
It's more likely that your ancestors were causing those things than surviving them.
It could have been worse, they could have been enslaved. Slavery, how terrible it must have been for the poor souls to lose their freedom.
The dumbest part of Tiga's take is that everyone currently alive on the planet had ancestors that were resilient, survived, and persisted, by definition. Tiga thinks his ancestors - and by extension, him, were special.
They weren't.
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It cannot be anything but a YES
I saw an interview with an Indigenous academic and he said, "We don't want to be the driver, we are happy to be a passenger that gets listened to...."
That is a smart, fair, and cool way to put it ..
I saw an interview with an Indigenous academic and he said, "We don't want to be the driver, we are happy to be a passenger that gets listened to...."
That is a smart, fair, and cool way to put it ..
Yeah.
And theres gonna be 25% of Australians who dont want them in the car.
But theres gonna be 65% yes,
And we can progress Australia
Baloo get back in the dog box you aint sorry for slagging our indigenous brudders & sisters with that earlier dumb post.
What, do you think your ancestors and mine, and I'm sure many others on this site had tougher lives than those who had their freedom taken away when they were forced into slavery.
