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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by mandmandam on Thursday October 19, 2023 @04:41AM (#37940168)
Don't forget the foundation of genocide and displacement, followed by centuries of subjugation, propaganda, "reeducation", exploitation, economic and political maginalization and racism.
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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by krona on Thursday October 19, 2023 @05:12AM (#37940391)
So Australians should solidify their status in to the constitution in perpetuity? How do you square that with basic principle of liberal universalism?
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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by mandmandam on Thursday October 19, 2023 @06:54AM (#37941077)
I would assert that giving Aboriginal peoples a voice in government is a "bare minimum decency" sort of thing, rather than some sort of abstract attack on "basic principles of liberal universalism".
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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by krona on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:18AM (#37941258)
How do you personally choose whether an indigenous group have a right to be represented? For example, should people in Britain who can trace their ancestors to the Mesolithic gain this right too?
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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by kiwih on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:34AM (#37941416)
Perhaps a referendum would be a good way to do it? The UK has proposed, and even passed, a few of those in recent memory
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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by okokwhatever on Thursday October 19, 2023 @08:18AM (#37941824)
Please, stop the train, I want to step down...
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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by pauldenton on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:26AM (#38023480)
Are the people of the UK feeling represented since all those referendum passed?
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