tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post1713908947940703218..comments2023-10-27T02:41:51.530+11:00Comments on My Gripes of Wrath: Australia DayLexcenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17856993035719777231noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post-308985784263948922012-02-02T12:58:43.474+11:002012-02-02T12:58:43.474+11:00So far it's just the usual suspects demanding ...So far it's just the usual suspects demanding it (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Ferrakhan), it normally get shot down in short order, as it wants people who never owned slaves (everyone alive today) to pay reparations to people who never were slaves (but their ancestors were). If that's the case, I owe myself some money, for what my ancestors did to my other ancestors! I count German, British, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and Czech as my ancestry, but I claim Texas as my homeland. (Which isn't without it's own problems, as there are many Mexicans who act on the false knowledge that the American Southwest was "stolen" from them in the 1800s.)Mattexianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364636677279037964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post-39070682233512166952012-02-02T07:23:18.924+11:002012-02-02T07:23:18.924+11:00Mattexian,
The reparations for slavery is somethin...Mattexian,<br />The reparations for slavery is something I wasn't aware of. <br />ThanksLexcenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17856993035719777231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post-38973677093777292592012-02-02T03:38:53.915+11:002012-02-02T03:38:53.915+11:00Well, there might not be equivalancy, but there is...Well, there might not be equivalancy, but there is a lot of similarity. In the US, there's a long history of subjugating the American Indians, forcibly moving tribes from historic lands to places in the ass-end of nowhere (like deserts), and the history of slavery, oppression, and segregation against the blacks, which all are now being treated thru the lens of White Guilt, with repeated calls for reparations for slavery, which by my reckoning is insane, to use tax dollars from everyone to pay blacks for what my great-great-great-etc-grandparents supposedly did hundreds of years ago. (The blacks especially feel empowered, as they have one of "their people" in the Presidency now, and any criticism of him or his policies or his administration is dismissed as racist attacks, because "he's black.") The White Guilt is also used to justify allowing the Indian Tribes to build casinos to attract gambling and tourism to the Reservations, while any other part of a state is NOT allowed gambling, much to the detriment of everyone's wallets and morality.Mattexianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364636677279037964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post-28489375341277682902012-02-01T18:44:43.366+11:002012-02-01T18:44:43.366+11:00Mattexian and Jeannie,
I find it very hard to equa...Mattexian and Jeannie,<br />I find it very hard to equate what's happening in Canada and America with the situation with aborigines here in Australia.Lexcenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17856993035719777231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post-78842721018433939342012-02-01T09:35:40.769+11:002012-02-01T09:35:40.769+11:00Happy belated Australia Day! (I noticed it on our ...Happy belated Australia Day! (I noticed it on our calendar at work, as one of our execs is from there, but he took off the whole week, so I couldn't wish him anything.)<br /><br />I'd say it's a trick question, as those could be answered with "US" also, especially around Columbus Day. Altho we don't public admit to any failure of integrating any ethnic groups, as singling them out would be <i>Racist</i> and hurt someone's <i>feelings</i>.Mattexianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364636677279037964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23157576.post-23909461084347879502012-01-27T11:51:46.850+11:002012-01-27T11:51:46.850+11:00Canada has a lot of the same issues. But Canada Da...Canada has a lot of the same issues. But Canada Day isn't frowned on - because it's the anniversary of Confederation - not when anyone in particular landed.Jeanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320507412459242451noreply@blogger.com