“If this country has any conscience, it will start a healing process that starts with truth-telling,” the former Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, told the rally.
Irish heritage academic and activist Gary Foley told the crowd, the majority of whom were non-Indigenous, not to go away feeling “self-satisfied”.
Two people, a man draped in an Australian flag and a woman holding a sign that said “To defend my country was once called patriotism; now it’s called racism” remained at the Flinders Street station steps.
In London, self hating activists hung a banner from Westminster Bridge, which said “Abolish Australia Day
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What mad racist agenda are you trying to put forth with this incoherent post?
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The problem with “Abolish Australia Day” is that it suggests Australians shouldn’t celebrate at all, which is not what the change the date movement is about.
There are some fairly decent arguments as to why the date should be changed and none (that I’ve seen) as to why it shouldn’t.
Unfortunately at least half the population seems unwilling to even think about it, instead just saying stupid thoughtless shit like “Aborigines should just get over it”.
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One interesting point is that the Australians who really get worked up about this all come across as being utterly British or Irish. They usually w**k on about having Aborigine blood but you find it was one Great-Great-Grandparent out of sixteen. They look European. Their culture and mentality is utterly European. And they use their supposed “Aborigine” status mainly as a way of fighting cultural battles with other Europeans.
Most of them wouldn’t even want to talk to an ordinary Aboriginal person.
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