It's natural to love a post that supports your own position.
My background is Irish Catholic convict settler and I do not identify with anything related to English history. So my distain for Australia Day on 26 January has nothing to do with being liberal or virtue signalling.
Has anyone read an opposing point of view here and changed their position. I haven't.
It's deep in my being the rejection of this day, and I respect others feel completely different.
It seems clear this date is not uniting people. Maybe some can agree that's disappointing.
You'd think ancestors of early settlers who got
pulled away from Great Britain, landed here as
convicts & helped set up the penal colony here -
in service of the King George III - would be aggrieved
with anything to do with the monarchy & Oz day - yet they do the opposite, they suck
on mother England's teet lmao. Most boomers
are the biggest whingers & complain when other
people want to change the status quo, or when
it's time for collective change. So drunk off power
and perpetually stuck in the 'days of old' that
they betray their own sensibility & civility. Such
a spoilt, coddled generation of know-it-alls and
entitled prats. I find it embarrassing when
some posters write "this immigrant guy i met"
or "I spoke to this indigenous guy and they're
so greatful and love Australia and nothing is
wrong with the date", yadda yadda. They love a
token black or ethnic to reinforce their own belief systems, it's like those losers that say they
don't hate gays or black people because they
have 1 gay or black friend. It's so sad. Another
sad thing is people saying we could have been
speaking Dutch, French or Indonesian if Cook
hadn't discovered Australia & everyone else should
somehow feel eternally greatful for his landing in Botany Bay. Piss off. It's the same thing
Zionist settlers say when they take Palestinian
homes, "if it's not me, somebody else will do it",
sorry that doesn't wash, nor does it erase the
atrocities committed and are still felt to this day.
Oh, you know ethnics that migrated here, worked
hard and paid taxes all their lives & that love 2
celebrate Australian day? Good 4 you! They were
not even allowed to date white woman 50 odd
years ago, how privileged they are to celebrate
a day that's celebrated by people who don't even
view them as 'real Australians'. For every black,
and immigrant that love the country & feel like
they belong there are 100's behind them that
feel the opposite way. If we are all going to come
together & truly feel Australian we're going to
have to hear each other out and not just feed
into things that confirm our conscious bias.
Do what you want to do, celebrate how and with
who you want to, but don't act dumb and pretend
you don't understand why everyone else doesn't
share the same enthusiasm as others do on this
date. I went out earlier, drove around and it's DEAD
no special events, parks are pretty quite and
local councils have stopped doing citizenship
ceremonies. Look around, not everyone gives
a shit or feels connected to the date/Australia
day, most people just care about the day off
work. Anyway, yarn over. I know I'm going to get
quoted 100 times for speaking my peice but
I've got time today. Apologies 2 boomers I upset/
or may have disrespected in my monologue lol
