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> It's also weird to see Australia called an apartheid regime. For all the terrible things done to the indigenous here, things weren't arranged as in South Afri
by rodgerd 11y ago
> It's also weird to see Australia called an apartheid regime. For all the terrible things done to the indigenous here, things weren't arranged as in South Africa.
Tell me again how denying Aboriginal Australians the right to be considered citizens - still the case in 68 - is "better than South Africa". Black South Africans may have been treated like shit, but at least the whites didn't pretend they weren't even humans.
- vacri 11y agoIf you stop projecting and read my comment again, you'll see that I'm not saying that life was better for the indigenous folks in Australia. I said that 'apartheid' was a weird term to use for the Australian experience. I said 'arranged'; you inserted the word 'better'. 'Apartheid' is a description of a particular political idiom. It's not a catch-all term for 'colonial oppression'.