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Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

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Re: Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

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>Contributing factor is that racism against indigenous Australians is somewhat fueled by the same sort of rhetoric that became popular in the Trump election campaign. indigenous Australians have been the victims of racism and racist action for centuries. Trump's effect on them -- if there is any at all -- is a small blip in their history. Your attempt to shoe-horn your personal issues into this feels apparent to me.

If you weren't living here during this time you may not have been aware that Abbot + Morrison being elected resulted in a distinct change in what was considered "acceptable" discourse. The reality is it definitely emboldened the worst kind of people.

I was here, and you're spouting rubbish.

Whilst the Morrison government was pretty shit, the call of "aboriginals are getting more from Centrelink than me" is not at all a new one, and can't be attributed back to them. And comparing our government at the time to the Trump administration is laughable.

The "acceptable discourse" is no more right wing or conservative since Abbott. If anything, progressive voices are louder. You know Rudd was publicly against gay marriage as a sitting PM, and it was passed under a Liberal government, right?

If you want to see the evolution of our acceptable discourse, go read a Murdoch rag from 40 years ago. A few opinion pieces from The Herald in the 80s might let you see what "acceptable discourse" was then compared to now.

Re: Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

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is it more precious than one human life ?

It’s definitely more precious than the life of a scumbag that spent considerable effort getting through security measures just to destroy this thing.

Thank goodness you're not in charge of the justice system.

Re: Vandals destroy 30k-year-old indigenous cave drawings in Australia

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My suspicion is that whoever did this was emboldened when none of the climate change vandals who did similar things to paintings in museums got any real punishment. If they all got a year or two in prison instead, I don't think this would have happened.

There's no chance this is anything but bored kids.
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