rumbleroar
Survivor of the HSC
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- HSC
- 2014
I don't think people choose to become "petrol sniffers", as you so eloquently put it. It's the almost ingrained cycles of drug abuse that come from a disadvantaged and subjugated position people are forced into, that facilitate this behaviour. This is similar to people born into families with violence, they almost "absorb" this behaviour because that's what they see, and people, tend to learn through example. Their situation isn't getting better with the borderline ignorant attitude you display towards them. What they need is compassion in order to bridge the inequalities between our populations and their communities.uhh yea YEARS AGO
They've received 100x more compensation that they would ever have required.
its time to move on.
Now they are treated like gods. Nothing is biting at the heels of aboriginals that would prevent them from being treated equally in society like whites. In fact they are getting SPECIAL TREATMENT for something that happened so long ago.
If they CHOOSE to be petrol sniffers and drug addicts in central australia, thats their frickin problem. It has NOTHING to do with white people, AFTER ALL AS IVE JUST SAID we've been compensating for our sins since we came here. We are not harming them, there is nothing going on that would indicate white people believe themselves superior to aboriginals. We've been non stop trying to lift up their communities on par with white communities.
The problems aboriginals in central australia face are largely due to their own fault as well as inability to organise themselves as a community. YES we must help them out and encourage them to be like any other person in society, with a job and a stable income and healthy family, and if they decide to not do so, fuck them! We tried to help them, its their own problem if they dont want help.
All the drugs, petrol sniffing, crime etc continues. Why? Well maybe dont even ask yourself that bloody question, australia has done its job as well as it could in bringing the aboriginals up to speed in society and if they choose to lower themselves again WHY SHOULD WE BOTHER HELPING THEM if they will just revert to their state as before. Those who don't wish to better themselves as people and accept the help whites are giving them, they should be left alone. You wont change them.
I dont know who im talking to lol but its quite satisfying just writing things down.
Although it is debatable how the government chooses to spend money and "close the gap", in order to fix a system with gaping holes, you will require lots of investment that may seem outrageous to other communities that aren't 100% empathetic with these situations.
With regards to the bolded part, have you ever gone to mandatory history in high school, where we learnt about the deconstruction of Aboriginal communities, aptly known as "the Stolen Generations"? Or about the subjugation of them when the First Fleet and other colonisers arrived? Do you understand the poignant inequalities within their communities and ours, that makes it significantly harder to access resources that can help "reconstruct" their lives? Remote areas in Central Australia have significantly less access to economic, health and educational resources, making it much harder to "stabilise" their lives. There are efforts to alleviate these stresses, as I have seen Aboriginal communities binding together and raising awareness about these disparities through art (re: exhibition at MCA last year) and expansion of the 'bush food' industry, which aims to provide jobs to indigenous Australian workers. However, even though there are efforts that attempt to provide possible solutions for these problems, it's not going to help with ignorant attitudes and lack of empathy. You say "its their own problem if they dont want help", but do you know how hard it must be to simply "fix" your life? It takes years, and its extremely dismissive of you to say something like that.
I don't find any satisfaction with being a bigot.
I also hope you know it isn't just "whites" "giving them help", it is the entirety of the tax-paying Australian population of a diverse range of multicultural backgrounds. There's other racial groups than just "whites" you speak of.