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One can consider all the land listed in Australia well and truly stolen without recompense from their aboriginal owners.
by gizajob 3y ago
One can consider all the land listed in Australia well and truly stolen without recompense from their aboriginal owners.
- hinkley 3y agoI always forget just how big Australia is but from one British Colony to another, we are 28% ahead of you in the US, and North America is at least 2.6 times worse. And that's not counting the Spanish colony to the south.
- gizajob 3y agoDo you mean me? I’m British, so the coloniser not the colony. Have spent a decent amount of time in Australia though, and even have an Australian ex-wife to prove it.
- hinkley 3y agoYeah I assumed you were talking about your own home. Let's blame it all on the Norman Invasion.
- gizajob 3y agoThey do have a lot to answer for
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoThis is interesting to me. You're British "by accident of birth". You, yourself, are no more a coloniser than any native person, surely. I know it's considered a British thing, in jest at least, to assume the guilt of past generations ... but do you really perceive yourself in this way, even a bit? Personally, I don't think guilt helps us move forward, we need to do what is right now. Interested in anyone's thoughts here.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoIt sounds like you want to perpetuate the same failed system, someone owns the land exclusively and everyone else is out of luck? No matter the status or origin of your parents, don't you deserve a share of fertile land (or it's proceeds)? This has a major impact going forward, some native peoples land are going to not exist due to sea level rises ... Just for avoidance of doubt, imperialist colonisation is absolutely wrong, IMO. Morally indefensible. But that's not because it infringes property rights; we've got one planet and, intrinsically, none of us have any greater birthright in that planet than any other.