The stolen generation continues under other names, Indigenous familes are still regularly torn apart in the name of child protection, Grand Mothers Against Removals is a group that works to keep children in community, you can read some more about them here
www.foe.org.au/grandmothers_against_removals
I’m not going to spend the time responding to every one of your points, but you might need to take a step back and think about you were so quick to ardently defend an imperialist settler colony
p.s.
something that is really irking me lately is the implication that the state banning racist hand gestures, and nazi flags is going to solve anything.
Banning nazi symbols only means nazis now march under the australian flag, the australian flag was already a colonial symbol, it comes from a time when the state was explicitly white supremacist. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Nath@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
I have absolutely no idea how you can read the words “scandalous” and “cultural genocide” and think I was defending anything. I was saying that comparing the worst of government policies to literally rounding up every man, woman and child and outright murdering them is damaging to your argument. They are terrible failures in policy, but they are not comparable to Nazi policies.
What exactly do you propose the government do instead? We can’t lock people away for what they think. We can only prosecute them when they do something like hate speech, waving Nazi flags or doing Nazi salutes.
stib@aus.social 6 hours ago
@Nath
Uhh, isn't "literally rounding up every man, woman and child" exactly what went on? What else would you call the hundreds of massacres that occurred up and down the continent? The colonisers lacked the twentieth century mechanised efficiency of the Nazis, but the intent was just as explicitly genocidal.
@manuallybreathing
Nath@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
Does Mastodon give you the context of the thread or just that one comment? Because in context, I was saying in the past century. I absolutely agree that this was going on before that.