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A record number of Australians enroll to vote in referendum on Indigenous Voice (www.npr.org)

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The referendum would enshrine in Australia's constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Voice would advise on policies that impact the nation's most disadvantaged ethnic minority.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m saying it’s both Russian trolls and plenty of homegrown colonial racism. I do honestly think though that the trolls have weaponised social media to create an astro-turfed permission structure in western societies where we had previously been pretty good at starting to smash that racist shit out towards the past.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

White settlers are never going to smash that racist shit out while occupying territory they acquired via genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We don’t have a time machine etc. We do have a sort of democracy, as flawed as it is. Voting ‘Yes’ can make an small but important step towards empowering the currently disenfranchised subjugated aboriginal people who didn’t deserve the colonial hand they got dealt.

So, what’s your problem?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

A democracy created by settlers is never going to decolonize itself. The only solution is for the indigenous nations to control the entire continent and oversee the process of decolonization.