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Australia was initially populated with Aboriginals, from who the land was stolen by convict settlers.
by discordance 5y ago
Australia was initially populated with Aboriginals, from who the land was stolen by convict settlers.
- fieryskiff11 5y agoYou say stolen, I say conquered.
- grecy 5y agoIf I came into your house at gunpoint and literally took everything you own, would you say I stole your stuff, or that I conquered you?
- x3n0ph3n3 5y agoThe difference is that there is currently a government to mediate disagreements between you and I, as well as a shared set of laws.
- grecy 5y agoAre you saying the original inhabitants of Australia didn't have their own form of Government and laws about what people could and could not do? Or are you just saying ours are better, therefore it's fine to walk all over theirs?
- eplanit 5y agoThere's a difference between "country founded by", and "land occupied by". Yes, the aboriginals, like native tribes all over the world, were displaced by modernity. One can debate the good vs. bad of it all, but the country of Australia was founded as a penal colony (after displacing the aboriginals).
- tikwidd 5y ago"Displaced by modernity" is such a wonderfully Orwellian description for what the colonisers did to Aboriginal Australians.