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Interesting to watch ‘cancel culture’ morphing into a white middle class version of ‘Its OK to white’ To see @PatsKarvelas wearing a ‘cancelled’ tee shirt like a badge of honour is an interesting escalation of her sense of ‘victimhood’ She might like to reflect on the history
Of her grandmothers country; I think it was her grandmother who arrive here in Australia as an illiterate migrant from Greece. My father arrived here from Northern Greece Macedonia in 1936. He wasn’t illiterate; was very smart, could read and write very well; left a village
That had been renamed; every town and city names and streets changed; language banned and people’s names changed; given a Greek name on his passport;that’s a cancel culture; more locally; Cook did not ‘discover Australia’ children were stolen and taught to be white; more recently
Adam Goodes career was ‘cancelled’ by a rabid ‘white Australia’ mob; 46,000 years of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage was casually ‘cancelled’ by Rio Tinto; Aboriginal people are casually ‘cancelled’ everyday going about doing things that we, priveleged ‘white’ folk don’t think
twice about; will I be followed in that shop; will that taxi stop and take my fare; will that policeman profile me for being in the street; so let’s hear no more of about being ‘cancelled’ for being questioned about ‘fairness’ and ‘facts’ It is a reasonable expectation by the
Public that journalism is practised independently, fiercely and fairly.That many see that it isn’t and speak up, demand better has nothing to do with ‘cancel culture’ but about people demanding our democracy be protected by the 4th Estate without fear or favour #auspol
Just to add; Cancelling of the role of Opposition by exercising the controlling mechanism of ‘that the member no longer be heard; cancelling Paraliament without the imagination or capability to work out how to maintain scrutiny and questioning of our Government #auspol
Furthermore; how and why was #TwiggyForrest allow to purchase traditional Aboriginal land with an unbroken connection to the cultural carers of their land https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-07-09/andrew-forrest-buys-jubilee-downs-quanbun-downs-for-30-million/12437842 This is wrong; it should be handed (not given) back; purchased at a reasonable price by us
This is how it is done; and should continue to be done https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enAU655AU655&hl=en-GB&ei=IaISX8y5EZiY4-EP_KGtiA0&q=images+of+gough+whitlam&oq=image+of+Gough+whitlam+hand+back+Guringi+land&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIFCAAQzQJQAFgAYOgxaABwAHgAgAG1AYgBtQGSAQMwLjGYAQA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#imgrc=xvCJwM1LN3e0DM Oh and #TreatyNow #UluruStatement Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land #auspol
