A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he’d run down an “oxygen thief”, has been spared actual jail time
The court heard Danby sent a series of “disgusting” text messages to his friends in the hours after the crash, in which he labelled the crash victims as “dogs” and “n***ers”.
No jail ? Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down I guess.
I have absolutely no idea how you can read the words “scandalous” and “cultural genocide” and think I was defending anything. I was saying that comparing the worst of government policies to literally rounding up every man, woman and child and outright murdering them is damaging to your argument. They are terrible failures in policy, but they are not comparable to Nazi policies.
What exactly do you propose the government do instead? We can’t lock people away for what they think. We can only prosecute them when they do something like hate speech, waving Nazi flags or doing Nazi salutes.
@Nath
Uhh, isn’t “literally rounding up every man, woman and child” exactly what went on? What else would you call the hundreds of massacres that occurred up and down the continent? The colonisers lacked the twentieth century mechanised efficiency of the Nazis, but the intent was just as explicitly genocidal.
@manuallybreathing
Does Mastodon give you the context of the thread or just that one comment? Because in context, I was saying in the past century. I absolutely agree that this was going on before that.