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I love this board people people are articulate and tend not to name call.I’m randomly weighing in here because my mother wants to watch The Crown and I’m not that into it.
I would have said I was on the same side as Toump Ass on this, but I must say you have somehow crystallised the better arguments for the status quo and I’m close to swayed by them. I don’t know exactly what Australia Day is, but it’s difficult to escape colonisation as fairly fundamental to it. The notion of diversity and inclusion wouldn’t need promoting without the original event to have brought about ‘modern day’ Australia, and shifting the date of the holiday does nothing to change the reality. I also suspect that campaigning to change or remove colonial symbols is something of a middle-class intellectual luxury (I’ve generally been inclined to tag along with all similar campaigns) but when I think about it I suspect it may not be in the forefront of pressing need for the part of the population that the campaign for change is supposedly for.
Tbh i can see both sides, but i worry a bit we focus too much on the feels and not enough of the hard solution.
What folks think indigenous communities need? What do they say they need?