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I am not an Australian but I've been to Australia and have Australian friends and colleagues. "Racism" is not quite the right word for what's been done to the a
by belfalas 4y ago
I am not an Australian but I've been to Australia and have Australian friends and colleagues. "Racism" is not quite the right word for what's been done to the aboriginals, it's more like the genocide committed against indigenous people in the Americas. Aboriginals are "Black" but that's beside the point - the British did a very thorough job trying to wipe them off the face of the planet. Think Trail of Tears level horror if you're familiar with US history.
If you want to read about things that are even more truly horrific, read up on the history of Tasmania. It was even worse there.
- quadhome 4y agoI was shocked to find out that Aboriginals in Australia were enslaved as recently as the 1970s: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bushtelegraph/did-legalised-slavery-exist-in-australia/5580456 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/busht...
- belfalas 4y agoYeah, in the United States as well pretty horrific things were happening right up to the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study (I'm of course not saying that bad things stopped happening after the 1970s)