Do you know how many fearful conservatives have told me the place I live in has collapsed into a wasteland of violent criminal chaos? I can only go outside to check and make sure they’re wrong so many times before I just have to assume they’re fucking idiots.
Reminder that Australia produced the shitstain gutter scum that we call Rupert Murdoch.
Australia also runs concentration camps for refugees on remote islands with practically no legal oversight. The Aborigines were considered part of the local “fauna” until the 1960s.
Australia gets way to less flak for how deeply deeply racist that country is.
Australia certainly is, like most countries, “deeply racist” but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.
Calling immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.
There are criticisms to be made but they are not “concentration camps”.
The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn’t withstand a moments critical though. There’s a more comprehensive rebuttal here:
Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They’re not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.
portland here. same issue. i have people who visit that refuse to leave my house because they are terrified of the city. many aren’t even conservative and are liberal. propaganda has done it’s work well. it’s hilarious and sad.
I live in California.
Do you know how many fearful conservatives have told me the place I live in has collapsed into a wasteland of violent criminal chaos? I can only go outside to check and make sure they’re wrong so many times before I just have to assume they’re fucking idiots.
Reminder that Australia produced the shitstain gutter scum that we call Rupert Murdoch.
Australia also runs concentration camps for refugees on remote islands with practically no legal oversight. The Aborigines were considered part of the local “fauna” until the 1960s.
Australia gets way to less flak for how deeply deeply racist that country is.
The reality is not better, but the “fauna” thing is a common myth
I feel obligated to provide some context here.
Australia certainly is, like most countries, “deeply racist” but exactly what that means and how we compare to other countries is contentious.
Calling immigration detention facilities “concentration camps” is disingenuous and has connotations that dont apply. At last count in 2021 there were 107 residents, all of whom could leave at any time, and were provided multiple resettlement options outside of Australia.
There are criticisms to be made but they are not “concentration camps”.
The fauna thing is an obvious myth that doesn’t withstand a moments critical though. There’s a more comprehensive rebuttal here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650
Australia does have deeply embedded tensions around race. They’re not easily solvable problems. Are more salient example might be the recent rejection of the voice referendum, but that would take more than a few moments to read and understand.
Someone hasn’t heard of Nauru and the Pacific Solution…
up until the 1930s Australia had ships that would kidnap indigenous people to enslave them for plantations in a practice called blackbirding
Australia itself was a concentration camp for prisoners just saying ;)
Bro I’ve spent some time in South Texas and conservatives don’t know there has been a border wall since mid 00s.
portland here. same issue. i have people who visit that refuse to leave my house because they are terrified of the city. many aren’t even conservative and are liberal. propaganda has done it’s work well. it’s hilarious and sad.
Everywhere in Cali must look like the beginning of Predator 2. Frankly it’s amazing that any infants survive to gang member age.