Yeah, politics is something we “don’t talk about” in this country and people will legitimately get mad at you for even discussing it, which is something the reactionaries are very good at using, they love making a topic “political” so people don’t discuss it and their viewpoint on it is just the default.
Sometimes it feels like we might end up being the world’s last capitalist holdout even after the US collapses, just due to sheer indifference and people looking to blame foreigners for all our problems.
I met someone on lemmy doing the 14% line but for aboriginals. Literally said something along the lines of, “they are all criminals, alcoholics, and murderers who can’t be assimilated”. Reading through his comment history was wild, dude was genuinely arguing for segregation.
Not sure what the 14% line is but unfortunately that’s extremely common. I was raised to cross the street to avoid the <redacted slur> house.
People fucking love to pull out these reheated stories of one time a friend of a friend said he heard how some blackfella did something unforgivable like uhhh pinched a ladder or something.
Meanwhile community is shattered, overpolicing continues to shatter it, federal government has literally instructed cops fuck off and stop arresting people but they somehow just can’t seem to do it despite their oh so sincere efforts.
Aboriginal people are like 400x more likely to die in hospital which is just completely unfathomable but none of the racist drop-kicks wants to engage with how that could possibly be a explained without racism.
Shit’s fucked, it makes me extremely angry to see the genocidal spirit of colonialism is still in full swing.
Ah, right, you aren’t American. It’s super common for American racists to say
racism
“black people are 14% of the population but commit 50% of the crime”
::: which is of course a severely bad faith use of crime conviction statistics. The Aussie I am referring to quoted a similar stat for aboriginals.
Oh shit, that’s kinda like how there is a saying about Roma in Finland, how
Spoiler
90% of them ruin their reputation for all of them, referring to the idea of Roma being thieves, frauds and generally untrustworthy.
I’m pretty sure people say this unironically to this day, and we have a saying of similar vibes about Russians, too! A lovely culture, full love and acceptance*!
Idk if I have encountered someone anti imperialist in Australia that isn’t pretty clear eyed about the ongoing genocide against aboriginal Aussies.
Most people are disgustingly racist but most people aren’t ashamed of that either.
The situation is fucking awful :( people in Australia generally are not very politically conscious. It’s very status quo liberals and reactionaries.
Yeah, politics is something we “don’t talk about” in this country and people will legitimately get mad at you for even discussing it, which is something the reactionaries are very good at using, they love making a topic “political” so people don’t discuss it and their viewpoint on it is just the default.
Sometimes it feels like we might end up being the world’s last capitalist holdout even after the US collapses, just due to sheer indifference and people looking to blame foreigners for all our problems.
Sounds like America in the 90s and 00s
We are usually about 10-20 years behind the US when it comes to terrible ideas, so that would check out.
I met someone on lemmy doing the 14% line but for aboriginals. Literally said something along the lines of, “they are all criminals, alcoholics, and murderers who can’t be assimilated”. Reading through his comment history was wild, dude was genuinely arguing for segregation.
Not sure what the 14% line is but unfortunately that’s extremely common. I was raised to cross the street to avoid the <redacted slur> house.
People fucking love to pull out these reheated stories of one time a friend of a friend said he heard how some blackfella did something unforgivable like uhhh pinched a ladder or something.
Meanwhile community is shattered, overpolicing continues to shatter it, federal government has literally instructed cops fuck off and stop arresting people but they somehow just can’t seem to do it despite their oh so sincere efforts.
Aboriginal people are like 400x more likely to die in hospital which is just completely unfathomable but none of the racist drop-kicks wants to engage with how that could possibly be a explained without racism.
Shit’s fucked, it makes me extremely angry to see the genocidal spirit of colonialism is still in full swing.
Ah, right, you aren’t American. It’s super common for American racists to say
racism
“black people are 14% of the population but commit 50% of the crime” ::: which is of course a severely bad faith use of crime conviction statistics. The Aussie I am referring to quoted a similar stat for aboriginals.
Oh shit, that’s kinda like how there is a saying about Roma in Finland, how
Spoiler
90% of them ruin their reputation for all of them, referring to the idea of Roma being thieves, frauds and generally untrustworthy.
I’m pretty sure people say this unironically to this day, and we have a saying of similar vibes about Russians, too! A lovely culture, full love and acceptance*!
*terms and conditions apply
Them romas are always stealin’ the copper and burnin’ cables!
Tale as old as time here in the Balkans, just replace roma with the appropriate slur.
Not to nitpick, but it’s actually 13%, and they even use “1350” as a dogwhistle for the stat.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1350
It brings me some satisfaction that I don’t perfectly know the racism lore despite my upbringing