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[–] 61 points 1 year ago

As someone said, the problem with Australia is not that its culture is descended from convicts but that its culture is descended from jailers.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    “All men are created equal. Also those men will remain my slaves.”

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    +only land owners may vote…

    I never quite got the Americans obsession with the constitution, was it not largely based on british law and changed like 30 times?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)
    1. No
    2. Revisions don’t change the fact that it’s the nation’s charter of rights. They still teach the Magna Carta, don’t they?
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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes1? “…the U.S. Bill of Rights, which are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, were heavily influenced by British law, particularly the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Many of the rights and protections outlined in the U.S. Bill of Rights have roots in British legal traditions and historical documents like Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights…” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States)

    Yes2? “…The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times…” (https://archivesfoundation.org/amendments-u-s-constitution/

    -There is no borderline religius infatuation with the magna carta, nor ant other charter of rights

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're telling me you don't have magna carta bathing suits?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Australian for father's were also racist.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean... being a criminal is wayyyy cooler than being racist

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, they were racist too. I don't think that there's anything native Americans endured that Australian Aborigines didn't have just as bad. Iirc the Aborigines were legally considered "flora and fauna" or something like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is that a Ned Kelly reference? I'm not Austrian.

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    Yet the Australian people are not much better at reckoning with the fact they live in a settler colonial state than the USians.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    People forget that America was a penal colony before Australia.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They were limited by the ignorance of their time. …….Or whatever Tony Starks dad said.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Hell, they literally had to invent "whiteness and blackness" as racial constructs to justify continuing to enslave the African slaves that converted to Christianity.

    That move is a lot older than the colonisation of Americas. There's a reason why westerners don't consider Slavs white, and it's connected to the etymology of the word "slave".

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