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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
It's a fact that 26/1/1788 was the beginning of an invasion, dispossession and genocide. We can't change that but we also can't unscramble the egg. Whites can no more leave Australia than the Celts can uninvade Britain or white Americans return to Europe. We can't change the past but neither should we deny it; we have to make the best of situation we have before us. If that means moving the date then so be it. And don't forget that from the white perspective 26 Jan 1788 was hardly covered in glory: people carted half way around the world and dragged ashore in chains for, generally, petty economic crimes committed by people desperate to survive in an inequitable and dysfunctional economy.
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That bad things happened in the past is not in question. That Aborigines are far better off now they were in 1787, is also not in doubt. If any Aborigine legitimately felt that way, then there is nothing to stop them returning to that way of life.
Europeans CAN leave if they actually want to. It's easier now then ever. The fact is, that they are happy enjoying the spoils of what happened, whilst decrying it at the same time, and making no effort to undo it.
This is hypocrisy.