'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
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Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#2It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out.
You know, democracy.
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#3It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
Don't forget the foundation of genocide and displacement, followed by centuries of subjugation, propaganda, "reeducation", exploitation, economic and political maginalization and racism.
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#4It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
Democracy without compassion, which this referendum is an example of, is just the political equivalent of the tragedy of the commons, nicely sanitized for mass consumption.
A smug system of hidden, institutionalized marginalization and oppression.
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
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#6It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
"That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason."
Top quote the article...
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#7It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
> It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
Democracy isn't about winner takes all. Its about you balance the needs and aspirations of everyone in a society: literally the demos.
Sometimes, as in my country (UK), democracy is practiced by imposing a thresholding function on decision-making processes ("first past the post") but it's worth remembering that this is largely for political convenience. It doesn't have to be that way, and plenty of places do it better - and have healitier, more equal societies as a result.
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#8It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
The core concept of democracy is proper representation of interest groups.
If groups are being excluded and abused, that's not democracy.
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#9It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
"That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason." Top quote the article...
I’m quite certain that nobody involved here has been around for 235 or 60,000 years.
Re: 'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails
#10It's the core concept of democracy. You lose, you are mostly out. You know, democracy.
"That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason." Top quote the article...
It's possible to recognise them without giving them a special place in the constitution, thereby enshrining race in the constitution (the opposite of the concept of justice being blind to race).