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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“All men are created equal. Also those men will remain my slaves.”
I mean... being a criminal is wayyyy cooler than being racist
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.
Is that a Ned Kelly reference? I'm not Austrian.
Also not an Aussie; but yes it is.
Yet the Australian people are not much better at reckoning with the fact they live in a settler colonial state than the USians.
They were limited by the ignorance of their time. …….Or whatever Tony Starks dad said.
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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