• Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Oh no, I absolutely have ancestors in my past that have done horrendous things. And I’m Australian, so they were also British subjects ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    As for the executions, well I’d love to get my hands on Charles! #NotMyKing

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      You don’t need to look that far back in all honesty. The Australian treatment of aboriginals has been abhorrent; and continues to this day.

      Time to get your guillotine out.

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        Australians were considered British subjects right up until the ‘Australia Act’ of 1986. I still very much blame Britain for much of the way Indigenous Australians have been treated. In the same way that I put a lot of blame on Britain for the current war in Gaza. Or the escalating conflict between Pakistan and India.

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          Well yeah, it’s an easy cop out to blame a country the other side of the world for your fellow countryman’s treatment of aboriginals.

          Introspection is hard; but deflecting the blame will do nothing to resolve the issue.

          Edit: Australia gained Responsible government (IE: making their own rules independent of the UK; though subject to higher laws like taxes etc) between 1855-1890… with full autonomy granted in the 1930s.

          So you lot have had around 100 years; and the treatment hasn’t budged… Let me guess; still not the Aussies fault eh?

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            I never said it wasn’t Australians fault as well. This is a really reductive take that shifts the blame for colonisation. Fluffing hilarious that you’re a feddit.uk user. Cope much for your country destroying the world?

            Edit: Also, no, the Westminster Act was not full autonomy, it was the dual Australia Acts in both countries parliaments in 1986 that granted that.

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              “as well”.

              You’re still deflecting. The current treatment of aboriginals is wholly down to your country. I ask again, why haven’t you got your guillotine out yet?

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                  Exactly. And your inaction during the ongoing issues in your country aligns you with our common ancestors who did nothing way back when; so when’s the guillotine coming out?

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                    What the fluff makes you think that I fail to act? You know literally nothing about me. I can both take responsibility, blame YOU and your country, and act to change things for the better. I am pretty consistently out protesting, and out there donating my time and money to causes looking to change the status quo, even though I am disabled and on a pension.

                    THIS attitude is why people blame your shitty country for these things. Grow up.