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Some Australian politicians, supported by Rupert Murdoch, deny that the Stolen Generation ever happened. This girl ate and left no crumbs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
DaisyfromDownunder
The Stolen Gen involved taking indigenous babies and infants away from their parents for decades. Most were never reunited. They were indoctrinated in white ways including religion while preventing access to country and culture. It's now regarded as the height of cruelty and child abuse.
redwesley
Thank you! She's conflating a few different but related atrocities but her heart is in the right place and is better informed than 80% of us.
Bunnies007
Phillip Noyce's 2002 movie, Rabbit-Proof fence deals with the Stolen Generation. It's worth watching not just for it's informative value but because it's a really good film with great performances from its young stars and direction which avoids melodrama to gives us a strong, uplifting movie.
Doddie2020
Yes. Definitely recommended!
GuyleDoucheFieldReporter
Nauwreigh
mattrixk
I grew up watching Sesame St, I thought Bob's name was "Barb" because yanks are incapable of saying Bob correctly.
jumpbus360
And THAT is how you "own up" to your country's history. The good and the bad. By acknowledging it. By teaching your kids about it in school. By saying "this happened and it was wrong." And it's a great way to make sure it never happens again. Good on her! Good on Australia!
AntiProtonBoy
Don’t need to own up to anything. It’s not like she’s responsible for history. It’s just stating facts.
FPAlpha
Completely agree and just want to add that the later generations wouldn't need to feel guilt in my opinion as they were not responsible but they have the duty to learn about it so it will never repeat ( and if possible mend or repair past mistakes).
cabalin
Or you could try to bring slavery back as Republican Mark Robinson has said he wants to do. Mark Robinson is supported by Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
She is glorious. 10/10
Bunnies007
The internet has ruined me. I thought she was going to be a bimbo, instead it turns out that she's bright, articulate and clearly has good moral values.
JackalopeElope
In fairness, the coast question was a little vague.
rennyslion
"Stolen generation" was done by courting them and having them fall in love, right? Then treating everyone equally and they could perhaps decide the "new" way was a better way of living? Playing the long game of getting what they both wanted? And then BAM, "surprise we're one people!"
Schtauffen
I went to NZ and was pleasantly surprised at how forward the museums and tour guides were with how poorly they had treated the Maori. It seemed to me they were doing their best to raise them up. Signs had both English and Maori on them. I'm not saying everything in NZ is great as I'm not Maori and can't say for them, but it at least seemed an effort was being made to honor them and the huge impact they continue to have there. I wish the US would get to this point with our own indigenous peoples.
somethingsomethingwittyhere
The time has come to say fair's fair
To pay the rent now, to pay our share
Rhinta
Midnight Oil! Maaan... My dad had that cassette on repeat. I can vividly remember sitting in that old Camry right now.
As a kid it was totally lost on me that the song is attempting to shed light on indigenous issues.
cgt9803
Australia has an active volcano on Heard Island, an external territory near Antarctica, but none in Australia proper.
HuskyDude1
Damn girl... you're a 10 !
Ultratoxic
She left out that Australia lost the great emu war
spittleteets
Having had to discuss systemic oppression in BIPOC community groups as a white person, boy oh boy did I feel that uncomfortable exhale/"laugh". The first card after general introductions was an elephant, "Let's address the elephant in the room...I'm white and don't want to be up here trying to "explain" systemic oppression to people who unfortunately know it better than I ever will. That said...please, please, pleaseeee participate otherwise this is going to suck for all of us."
Rrrrgrr
Australia has no active volcanoes? Shit, NZ has 9.
SergeyPrkl
This girl is... pretty. I love girls that know stuff.
IndigoThursday
Didn't the emus win the emu war?
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
Who doesn't know about great emu war?!?
Awmph
TIL half-caste is Australian is an Australian saying
stokaboka
Read this if you want your mind blown on this subject
---> Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
joemac65
It's a British Colonial saying. Used in the Crribean i think, but also in other colonies later, including Australia. But we kind of pinched it from the Portugese casta meaning race.
marthafarquar
It is derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word term casta ( from the Latin castus meaning pure ) meaning race or lineage. Terms such as half-caste, quarter-caste and mix-breed were used by colonial officials in the British Empire during their classification of indigenous populations, and in Australia used during the Australian government's pursuit of a policy of assimilation. The British also introduced the word "caste" in the 1700's to describe Hinduism's social stratification system.
Snekfast
Is it considered rude to say it now? I've noticed saying mixed race is probably the most common/modern phrase
Voodrew
"Naur...thats not true."
tellm1by
Why Emos lost the war:
GiantFlyingLabia
Hello, I’d like to move to Australia
JasonThorn
"Do you have a criminal record?"
"No, is that still a requirement?"
TinyOctopus
tiny octopus admires that this girl faces up to the facts, acknowledges them, and doesn't mince words. It's almost like a proper education about history lets people know what mistakes were made in the past so they don't pull a Santayana.
StellaMatutina
To be fair, gen X fucked up royally and never gets any guff for it. Telling everyone racism is bad, don't talk about, everyone's equal, don't talk about it, hey don't talk about it, led to rot in the social structure
gifworthy
AmEriCa CaN nO wRonG
pandemicmodedad
The reason they don't want their population from knowing the evolution shit they have done is because they are stoll doing it and don't want to stop.
CommunCreator
Don’t stop the evolution! Won’t stop! Can’t stop!
pandemicmodedad
Okay...I don't know how my phone autocorrected history from evolution. I guess they have something to do with each other.
NothingPrince
There was also a genocide in Tasnania. The army marched across killing all the first Tasmanians
SirWhiskersThe3rd
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
NothingPrince
We even have a week in school dedicated Australians first people. And all this is taught.
tellm1by
Saying "to pull a Santayana" is understandable but you are almost implying he is at fault and would do such a thing....
albaboss
My friend doesn’t know who Santayana is. They’re guessing it’s Santa’s Japanese cousin?
pixelsnader
No it's the Mexican artist best known for his 1999 hit "Maria Mariaaa".
dorenavant
George Santayana is the philosopher/novelist who said “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.
JoylessGreyhound
As a philosopher, Santayana is known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and "Only the dead have seen the end of war", and his definition of beauty as "Pleasure objectified". Although an atheist, Santayana valued the culture of the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview, in which he was raised. As an intellectual, George Santayana was a broad-range cultural critic in several academic disciplines.
MyBigMouth
The volcano question is kinda half right, on mainland Australia and it's near territories there isn't any active volcanoes; however, on the Heard Island and McDonald Islands there is, but they are way off in the southern ocean about halfway between Madagascar and Antarctica.
LespritDeLescalier22
And the Australian indigenous culture is the oldest living culture on the planet.
peterbozeman
TIL
LespritDeLescalier22
Think about it. A 50,000 year old culture that is more or less same/similar to what they were doing at the beginning. I think they even have stories involving giant sloths and other mega fauna indigenous to Australia that they would’ve had DIRECT CONTACT with. Mind. Fucking. Blown.
TupacAintDead
“Nauwreigh”
GuitarBobMonterey
Def. umlauty in the 1st half.
Racealistic
pixelsnader
🇳🇴
peterbozeman
That is incorrect.
Mreman71
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zcg3HOxyVzw
Djones06236
It's "no".
OaksParcel
Nar
Luvlyquants
Emu War is still going on though. :)
BoboTheIceMan
They sent 3 dudes and a camera man.
rhuala
I heard the Emu’s are winning
trinxter
The Emo war? Quite a shock.
Paullovespizza
There actually is a movie out at the moment
IUpvoteFuturama
I was kind of expecting that to lead to the Skyrim meme
idownvoteplottwist
wake the fuck up, samurai
Felimelinesk
Emmanuel no ! I'm trying to educate people.
Fhant
Emmanuel knows what he chose. And he will keep choosing it every. single. time.
Evillairforrent
The goose has joined him.
SkittishLittleToaster
Naw they just bout to drop a fire album
PeteyVonWho
Came here to say this. This album cover looks LIT!
flipj
Did the emus ever sign a peace treaty? Don't think so, so IT'S ON!
TankardHoot
The roos are ready
Baalzak
The emus already won. It's an emu occupation now.
ElroydIsGone
I think it's a little bit like in Korea; At one point they decided to stop fighting and now it's a kinda silent draw and they don't talk about it anymore.
lurkertron5000
The emus talk about it all the time. Talk about how they won it. We just can't understand them
ElroydIsGone
LOL, I don't have the proof to refute that!
trinxter
Hot. Australia is hot.
Djones06236
Yes, it's very hot and also full of murderous creatures. Fuck them creatures.
jeffois
They're call "Australians", but yeah, fuck 'em. Kunce.
Djones06236
You know, I wasn't clear, so that's fair.
linexnewt
*whoosh* I agree with you, quite hot.
Ausmerica
I wouldn't even survive an Australian winter, which, here's a fun fact: it starts in one of the months and ends in Surftember.
Danack
And more racist than I expected.
WeAllLiveInAUserSubmarine
I got a puppy upon arriving in Sydney. Lived in 3 areas (Concord, North Sydney and Newtown) for 3 years, and when I returned to London UK, my dog would bark at every black person she met. She'd never seen one before.
WeAllLiveInAUserSubmarine
And to further contextualise that (although building upon the video) the INDIGENOUS POPULATION are dark-skinned. I never saw one, the entire time.
EverNotRelevant
They also had a prime minister swim out to sea and never return.
Kennleth
He had crossed into international waters and they wouldn't let him back in without his passport. please note this is false but I find the thought entertaining.
NinjaCongo
Setting a shining example for other politicians.
Totallycasual
It's actually an expression now, like people use his name as an alternative to express how a person just vanished "to do the Harold Holt" 😂
EverNotRelevant
I'll never know if this is true, but sure, I'll go ahead and believe that
getadogupya
Rhyming slang.
onlyawfulnamesleft
And then we named a puublic swimming pool after him.
EverNotRelevant
Do you invite your elected officials there when you get tired of them?
onlyawfulnamesleft
Nah, we send em to Canberra. The roundabouts are designed to trap the dim ones in there.
littlecoatfatguy
Canada pursued the same goal by taking thousands of Indigenous kids away from families and handing them over to the Catholic Church to raise in “residential schools” whose stated method was “kill the Indian within to save the child”.
The half-century of systematic physical and sexual abuse that followed will affect Indigenous families for generations - that is, those who eventually got their traumatized kids back, rather than just a letter in the mail saying “kid died, no details”.
FierceAndAdorable
The English did this to the Irish as well.
Krackajak78
"Oh Canada, my home ON native land.."
Kiore
Same story in Aotearoa NZ, although by that time they'd started criminalizing the kids as an excuse to take them from their families.
Asadsadsadclown
The "kill the Indian within to save the child" was just the tagline to kick things off. When they couldn't beat the Indian out of those kids they just flat out killed them and threw them in a pit 'round back.
littlecoatfatguy
Generally worked ‘em to death first.
kensae4
Not just the Catholic Church. Anglican as well. It is why so many First Nations people in Canada despise the Crown.
TheDrunkenWrench
Even worse, the last residential school wasn't closed until the late 90s. That's TOO CLOSE to now.
raftus
I almost threw up the first time I learned of the 60s scoop. Fkn hell what was wrong with people.
EllisBurksrocks
Amd it wasn't just the Catholic church, it was Protestants as well.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I was going to say this, all of the big Christian sects in Canada were involved. It was no single church, they were all in on it. The govt was the central driver and it collaborated with all the Christian churches to do this.
cronkey
I grew up Christian Reformed - and that denomination was sure involved.
Krackajak78
Stung by WASPs
drcookieninja
Yeah pretty fucked up stuff. Genocide right in our backyard. Stopped just short of the American version, which was machine guns instead of residential schools.
drcookieninja
Now instead of being dead, Canadian indigenous people live with multigenerational trauma and ongoing discrimination and systemic inequities.
DiscountMusings
Well. Not 'instead of. 'In addition too' would be more accurate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools
It's all vile, all the way down.
Asadsadsadclown
Gunning them down left and right was the strategy until we got them sectioned off into reservations of land that were too shitty for anyone to live on. Then we switched to boarding schools to destroy entire generations of kids. Now in Canada those boarding schools were recently found to be home to mass graves of kids they just flat out murdered. That revelation kicked off the US doing their own investigation into their own schools that I believe is ongoing.
Asadsadsadclown
After a bit of research it looks like nearly everyone agrees that the US schools have mass graves but in true American fashion it is difficult to investigate because there is almost no records of anything on every level. They don't know how many kids they took, held, returned, died, etc. current estimates are 20-60k from 1900-1925. The US internal investigation seems to have stalled at this point with no physical investigation taking place, just document review. Native American groups have
Asadsadsadclown
Stepping up to start looking for actual graves and interviewing survivors. But they lack the funding for ground penetrating radar at the 350+ schools in the US. A Montana State University student did a scan as part of his masters thesis and found a few hundred graves at a single school location.
Asadsadsadclown
Note: that time frame is just a snapshot for scale, many schools operated well into the 60s and 70s if not longer.