Stop dividing ourselves by race.
Yes. Although unfortunately, such divisions are already deeply ingrained into our society (e.g. casual racism in news and media, lack of historical representation in government, generational loss of land, segregation in many towns within living history), and we can’t mend these systemic divides by simply ignoring race. So it’s tough to mend the divide without giving some preferential treatment to the groups who need to be lifted back up.
I agree that the constitutional referendum wasn’t the best way to help lift up Indigenous people and mend the divide, I agree with your point that it presented some issues of its own, and I also believe it doesn’t make sense to treat it as similar to white-supremacist racism, which serves the dominant side in the divide, splitting it further.
it sends a clear signal to guys like this that it is OK
Ultimately, Nazism just does not care about what society thinks is ok. They claim to themselves that most people are brainwashed by a “Jewish conspiracy”.
To them, liberalist concepts like free speech, democracy, equality before the law are interpreted as weakness, foolish or just tools to be exploited on their path to dictatorship (like how their leadership is currently crying about their democratic rights while they want to strip those same rights from most of the population; they don’t care about these rights, they just want to exploit them when convenient). In their worldview, the constitution is just a list of tools that governments politely gave them.
spiffmeister@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Yeah it’s definitely the referendum and not the at least two decades of bullshit after Howard decided to weaponise immigration to win some elections.