It is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.
  • Bo7a@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    5 hours ago

    The Inquiry:

    *Opens a 7th grade social studies class textbook.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    My Aussie mate back in England told me that the British killed the First Nations and took their land, like his ancestors just turned up here to find swathes of unoccupied land and were like “crikey, what’s been happening here!” and immediately started doing Acknowledgement Of Country at the start of every office meeting.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      If the British showed up, they tried to genocide, that’s just what they do

      I mean only if it’s non-white people. They’ve helped white people out sometimes - of course only when it’s aligned with their interests.

  • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    12 hours ago

    If this inquiry has no power to actually do anything about this finding, I’m not sure I understand the point.

    Anyone who ever read a history book already knows about the multiple genocides. The issue is what happens now?

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      11 hours ago

      I guess the point would be for everyone involved to say “never again” and if someone quotes Hitler they should not win elections.

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    146·
    13 hours ago

    And the American settlers genocided the native Americans. All the western super-powers are built of slaughter, rape and pillage.

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      62·
      8 hours ago

      You think other empires weren’t. No slaves in Russia, Persia or china. Rest of the world was peaceful and dainty.

      How about the americas pre Columbus. Do you think they were peaceful and had not slaves.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      11 hours ago

      My dude, pretty much all countries have been founded by genocidal settlers.

      Problem is that some of them can’t get past it and keep being genocidal settlers.

      • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        7 hours ago

        Absolutely true, but the point isn’t whataboutism (well, sometimes it is, but it shouldn’t be). The point should be admitting and owning our mistakes and doing what we reasonably can to:

        a) admit that we did and validate the experience of the people who suffered from it
        b) make sure we’re not still doing it (way too often we still are, just through subtler means)
        c) try to make reparations if we can

        Even getting to step ‘a’ is a big fucking step. Nobody’s innocent, but honesty is the foundation on which improvements can be made.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        12·
        8 hours ago

        Well, once you’ve had your country invaded by rabid psychopaths, there’s bound to be some gene admixture (to put that far too mildly) and so you’ve a chance that their descendents, even if it’s recessive and rare, will have the desire go on to do the same.

        Of course, rabid psychopathy and the urge to invade other places can also come about on its own, but when you look at the way the Vikings and their Germanic cousins invaded western Europe a thousand years or so ago, and then note what happened a few hundred years later, it has to make you wonder whether it might have only happened the once.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          This completely depends on the organisation of society and has nothing to do with genetics. I don’t even know what you are going on about.

          BTW Germans were also invaded by Asian people multiple times. In fact, the most brutal genocide in history scaled to population size was committed by an Asian dude against mostly Europeans. It’s not like some nations were better with this than others. Middle-Eastern people did it just the same as Latins as well as Vikings and North, West and East Asians.