• ThenThreeMore
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    9 months ago

    The Australian’s about their treatment of aborigines first nation Australians

    The Irish about mother and baby homes.

    China about Uyghurs

    • @[email protected]
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      289 months ago

      Didn’t a bunch of Muslim countries actually ask China about Uyghurs (and even visit Xinjiang) and they left unanimously content with the response?

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      9 months ago

      “aborigines” is not a great word to use these days. It’s generally seen as pretty offensive to Indigenous Australians as it’s a bit dehumanising and comes from colinisers who treated people like animals.

      Better to go with “First Nations people”, “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” or “Indigenous Australians.”

      But yes, they’ve been treated (and in many cases continue to be treated) pretty horribly.

    • Carl
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      49 months ago

      The one that confuses me, is the statement about the Irish.

      • ThenThreeMore
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        99 months ago

        I guess you could say ask the Catholic church about Irish mother and baby homes. But the meme was doing nations.

        • @[email protected]
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          49 months ago

          Blaming the Catholic Church is a good way to start but the argument that Irish people were led astray by the Church is pretty much the same argument as those who seek to divorce the Wehrmacht from complicity in SS atrocities. In both cases the answer is that they shared vital infrastructure with each other and ranking officials could have stopped the excesses, which they had full knowledge of, if they’d have disagreed with it.

      • Bernie Ecclestoned
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        29 months ago

        Ask them about their tax avoidance schemes for big tech