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1907 telegram: "Send arsenic...exterminate aborigines"
@WearySky wrote: jonathan_colvin: “Killing aboriginal people with arsenic” (Australia’s genocide) is not in quite the same category as “forcing aboriginal people to go to school” (Canada’s “cultural...
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@jonathan_colvin wrote: Yes, nearly all from tuberculosis. These were the days before antibiotics. Large numbers died outside of residential schools as well. In the 1950’s almost a 1/3 of Inuit had...
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@anon68952647 wrote: roundeye: Who exactly gave these blankets to whom? Funny thing about detestable acts by the dominant and victorious forces… they’re not often written down - with all the Cherry...
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@L_Mariachi wrote: lamaranagram: served as a butler as part of his punishment Wasn’t that a Seinfeld episode? Read full topic
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@Tony_Yates wrote: There’s some problems with this telegram. For one, the telegram was sent to Henry Prinsep, who was at the time the Chief Protector of Aborigines in WA. Prinsep was a known...
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@Kimmo wrote: nungesser: This leads to the terra nullius issue. It’s a bit tricky to admit that Australia should actually belong to the people who were originally there when the Europeans moved in. We...
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@nungesser wrote: Tony_Yates: Oh and that story about Aborigines being originally classified as animals - it’s a myth. Well then, I wish the folks at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide hadn’t...
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@Tony_Yates wrote: I doubt that they lied to you, they probably actually believed it. Unfortunately there are many people, even highly educated ones who should know better who have swallowed that myth...
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@anon26470017 wrote: Citation needed! Maybe more than one. Lets explain myself (sorry, my English is not good, not native not enough practice): I do not know a lot of this specific history. But I do...
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@nungesser wrote: Tony_Yates: I doubt that they lied to you, they probably actually believed it. Unfortunately there are many people, even highly educated ones who should know better who have...
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@milliefink wrote: nungesser: I learned that history back in elementary school and was taught it throughout my childhood and adult education. Just because nobody’s mentioning the terrible things done...
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@anon27822705 wrote: Yes I think you are on to something. I googled more about it, and found text describe one leader’s approach early on to dealing with the locals near New Amsterdam. Basically, it...
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@nungesser wrote: milliefink: If that’s the case, then how do US Americans even stand up, given that they have no moral grounding on which to do so? By no means is America the only country in the...
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@milliefink wrote: nungesser: By no means is America the only country in the world who treated its native people poorly in its early history. Or who continues to frequently do so. ? I never said it...
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@nungesser wrote: Okay. You’re trying super duper hard to pick a fight. Not interested. Thank you. Read full topic
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@milliefink wrote: What? Just saying what I see and think, just like you. I learned to see through the “Lies My Teacher Told Me.” Hope you do some day too. Have a nice day, and thank you too. Read...
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@WearySky wrote: jonathan_colvin: Yes, nearly all from tuberculosis Tuberculosis that many of them likely would not have contracted, were they not forced to to attend those overcrowded, poorly...
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@jerwin wrote: Henry Prinsip spent some time defending practices which seem barbaric to those not wholly invested in the system ‘Neck-chaining has not a pleasant sound, and perhaps that is the worst...
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@jerwin wrote: I may be getting myself in whole heap of trouble here, since I don’t have kids and haven’t really been paying attention to the latest literature, but part of being a parent involves the...
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@Tony_Yates wrote: My reference to the Enlightenment was not to suggest that human beings ceased doing bad things to other human beings after the Enlightenment. It was simply in relation to the claim...
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@Tony_Yates wrote: Captain Cook and his crew weren’t “declaring the Aborigines to be non-people for the sake of land acquisition”, legally they didn’t need to. The fact is that although there were...
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@Tony_Yates wrote: Prinsep was right to argue that neck-chaining was the most humane method available. At the time, police officers had to go into remote areas on horseback to arrest Aboriginal people...
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@Diana wrote: There is no correspondence in the files of the Chief Protector of the Aborigines for Western Australia that matches sender or receipient “Morgan” or in 1907 to/from the station “Broome”....
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@Tony_Yates wrote: You may well be right. If, for the sake of argument, it was the Charles Morgan who had leased land from Prinsep in the past, that may have developed into some kind of ongoing...
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