So Hard Done By by P. Button

Sorry, but I can’t help noticing how many of those of the “Stolen Generation,” who have for years been claiming racial discrimination because they were taken from their Aboriginal parents, had white foster parents who  sent them to very good schools, some, top private colleges. I know that being taken away from one’s natural parents is intrinsically traumatic, but, unless there was an official policy to commit genocide (that is murder), which appears not to have been, is it so wrong to take children away from harm and give them a good education? Apparently, yes. I am not questioning this directly, only thinking through the consequences.

Let us not even get into the issue of mixed race, because, well, it is illegal to talk about, and races don’t exist, being social constructions, unless the power elites say that they do, then they exist exactly as they say they do. Amazing,  but this is not to be questioned.

If this is all so, then of course pay all compensation, a thousand times over. But then, never let another Aboriginal child be taken from their parents. Even if there is a threat of death, or sexual abuse (http://www.aic.gov.au/media_library/conferences/2003-abuse/stanley.pdf; http://www.smh.com.au/national/family-violence-and-child-sex-abuse-widely-underreported-in-remote-indigenous-communities-finds-crime-commission-20150330-1mb740.html),  the threat of a “stolen generation” must now override that.

Doesn’t that follow from the “stolen generation” narrative, as found in the genocide claim in the Bringing Them Home Report (1997): http://www.smh.com.au/news/gerard-henderson/the-real-meaning-of-genocide/2008/04/07/1207420295484.html?page=2? If it does not, then where is the line in the sand to be drawn? Please explain, in terms that Pauline would understand.

 

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Thursday, 28 March 2024

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