Text 29528, 100 rader
Skriven 2009-03-16 15:22:50 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 29418 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
Ärende: Stealing land
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David Drummond wrote to Robert Bashe on Monday March 16 2009 at 17:58:

["White" upbringing for Aboriganes"]
RB>> That they were still doing it. I thought the Australian government
RB>> had even apologized for the practice.

DD> They did - and kept right on removing "endangered" kids from their
DD> families.

Endangered is something else than "backward/black".

DD>>> I'm sure the Family Services Department (or whatever it's called in
DD>>> Germany) removes kids from the care of their parents when they deem
DD>>> those parents unsuitable too.

RB>> Not for racial reasons, however.

DD> Not here either, the kids are/were endangered. White kids get removed
DD> from their folks too - but per capita black kids are more
DD> "endangered".

<Sigh> Join the club. Seems like there are such groups in every country
nowadays. You have the Aborigenies, the States have their blacks and we have
the Turks. Life isn't dsimple anywhere.

DD>>> Alcohol, tobacco and porn are NOT their culture, it's stuff from
DD>>> white fella's culture that has infiltrated their lives.

RB>> That's what they said about the Indians too. But a culture that can't
RB>> take foreign influences and adapt them to itself is doomed anyway.

DD> Well, they're fucked then. They have not adapted at all well.

Hard luck. Lots of cultures have been extinguished over time.

RB>>>> Go out and piss on Ayres Rock, see what they say to that. I read
RB>>>> that's a holy place for them.

DD>>> The aboriginal people claim to be Christian...

RB>> Alcohol, tobacco and porn - you forgot religion above.

DD> All of the above concepts are found in that other great "christian"
DD> country - USA.

Don't you forget the mother of Australia/New Zealand: England? Or is England
just another word for America nowadays? Damn the one, damn the other. Sometimes
I don't know myself, the way things are going in England now.

RB>> Lucky once isn't lucky always. Don't tempt the aboriginal gods again
RB>> if you value your life.

DD> Fuck the aboriginal gods - along with Roy's gods. I have no fear of
DD> other peoples' imaginations.

You're a dead man, then. Anyone who doesn't believe in superstition is in bad
shape in this particular world.

DD>>> I haven't hefted a stone in a long time.

RB>> In this Echo? Nearly every day you write.

DD> No stone, just observations... Of course, I am sin free...

;-)))))))))

That was the best joke of the week.

RB>> Might be interesting to test that out, except that Australia's one
RB>> hell of a long way from here - and wouldn't accept me anyway, as I'm
RB>> not rich and much too old. Not even famous.

DD> If you can afford the fare - and prepared to leave your WMD at home,
DD> you can visit.

WMD? Like the "Roman sword" in my kitchen? It would never occur to me to bring
it along. No Romans in Australia (to my knowledge).

RB>> And I _hate_ insects, particularly flies. And have never been a
RB>> sports fan.

DD> Minimal flies here in the cities, that's an "outback" thing. We have a
DD> few mssies but screening the windows fixes them.

Sounds better, but still like Texas. Do you also have "chiggers" (biting fleas)
in the grass? They'll eat your legs up. I had to be treated for chigger bites
many times as a kid.

DD> I am not a sports fan (well, other than bedroom sport but that's a
DD> different thread).

DD> Not all Australians are obsessed with sport (nor all Kiwis for that
DD> matter).

That _does_ surprise me. I tghought there was nothing else to do in Australia.

Cheers, Bob

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