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Originally Posted by Argonavis
The "stolen generation" is a romantic myth. There are no documented cases of aboriginal children being removed from their families for anything other than welfare reasons. For abuse and or neglect. There have been court cases on this....
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This is not true.
The most telling fact against this argument is that only PART ABORIGINAL children were removed.
This leads to three possibilities:
(1) Only part aboriginal children were abused. (Naive and highly unlikely).
(2) Only part aboriginal children were rescued from abuse (This is highly racist).
(3) The removal of aboriginal children had very little to do with welfare reasons.
In the late 19th century the conclusion reached by State governments was that the Aboriginal race was doomed to extinction.
Policies were implemented to hasten this extinction by removal and institutionalization of part aboriginal children. Part aboriginals were to be used as an underclass to service white society.
There is nothing "mythical" about this. Go read the various State governments "Half Cast Acts" which sprang up in the late 19th century and were finally repealed by 1970.
Steven
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