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> Also the fact that he's Australian is a reassuring proof they don't base these question on color of skin... -To their credit, looking caucasian while coming
by lb1lf 10y ago
> Also the fact that he's Australian is a reassuring proof they don't base these question on color of skin...
-To their credit, looking caucasian while coming from Australia strongly suggest that your family has a history of trouble with the authorities... ;)
- vacri 10y agoThe last convict ship to Australia sailed 10 years before the US Civil War, and even then it'd been tailing off for decades. White Americans are closer to being slavers than white Australians are to being convicts. Besides, if you want to see who is more criminal-ey in the modern era, the US wins there with a 5x rate of incarceration...
- ubersoldat2k7 10y agoTIL, thanks.
- MarkMc 10y agoAnd a 4x murder rate
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoWait what? The Aborigine genocide has to figure in there somewhere. Add that in, what does the comparison look like?
- vacri 10y agoMarkMc is talking about the modern era, but if you want to talk about the past - are you that ignorant that you're going to ignore what happened to the American Indians?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoUm, the last Aborigine scalp was turn in for a bounty in the 1960's or so?
- vacri 10y agoGot a source for that? Given that Aborigines were slowly getting the vote between the 1920s and the last vestige in 1967, the idea that voting citizens were being scalped for money is supremely bizarre. I definitely want to see a source for that. While I'm not heavily into fighting for native rights myself, I hang around a few people that are, and I think that this little nugget of information would have made its way into discussion amongst all the other horrible things that have happened to Aborigines over the years.