MeleeMonk
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Post by MeleeMonk on Mar 4, 2019 5:06:43 GMT
MeleeMonk Keep in mind these kind of movies are never 100% accurate. Also, Scipioafricanus meant Quigley would've done more good than the removal program, which was well intentioned but completely misguided. As for aborigines helping themselves? Unfortunately, in this day and age, you don't hear many good things coming out of aboriginal communities in the outback. Incest, violence, petrol sniffing, unemployment, alcoholism. I doubt that it's entirely the white man's fault. We do have a few successful aborigines like Cathy Freeman and Ernie Dingo, but not many.
Also, many aborigines aren't pure blood and look nearly as European as everyone else. Most, you really, really have to squint (or use divination magic) in order to look for telltale signs of their racial heritage. Some of these may use their "victim status" to take advantage of you. Personally, I think the aborigines, as a race, have NOT completely adjusted to a crafted, non-nomadic society. While other races have had hundreds of years to adjust, they only had around two hundred. They're not wired like the rest of us, at least not yet. Until the British came, the aborigines were nomadic and took whatever they wanted from the land. Life was simple. But when the British settled, they introduced to things like "Private property" and "land ownership". They would just hunt livestock because they assumed it was up for grabs, and this caused conflicts with the farmers. scipioafricanus Brother from another mother? Aw, thanks mate! I knew going into it that it wasn't going to be 100% accurate and I didn't care because the movie itself was so well made. Like I said I loved the story, acting, and scenery of beautiful western Australia. In regards to the portion of your post that I bolded, I want to say that most of those things are also issues that our american natives have faced since europeans colonization of North America, ESPECIALLY alcoholism. Alcoholism alone has single-handedly blighted our entire native-american population. Alcohol is practically synonymous with modern day indian society, which is why I do think it's safe to blame white people for how these peoples have ended up. Of course americans would never accept the blame for this, since we're in denial about social issues like alcoholism and most of us can't even acknowledge that it's a problem among our own culture, so that clearly isn't going to change anytime soon. I'm not that keen on Australian history, but considering that major Australian cities like Darwin have a reputation for terrible booze culture, it seems like something that was passed around to the aborigines or maybe traded in for their goods like animal hides, as was the case with our native americans shortly after we settled this country hundreds of years ago.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jan 3, 2020 21:58:25 GMT
It took me almost a year, but as promised, I found a way to watch it, and here's my review of it. "This is one of those movies that should not be that hard to find online streaming somewhere legally, but it is surprisingly hard to find. Even the copy at my library was so messed up that the disc froze on the 5 minute mark, rendering it unwatchable. So after casually looking for it for almost a year, I found it on SBS and there too it was only possible to watch it on a certain day on a certain time. It was almost like I was destined not to watch it. Anyways, Rabbit-Proof Fence is the quintessential movie you watch in school. It was mentioned in my English class when we learned about Australia. Many people all over the world have watched it in school. Why is that? It must be because it is a very politically correct movie that critiques something of historical value that is mostly irrelevant nowadays, it is a biopic, the pacing and cinematography are nice but incredibly safe to the point of being completely harmless and bite-less. Rabbit-Proof Fence is by all means a fine movie. There is nothing inherently wrong with it, and that too me makes it one of the more boring movie watching experiences I have had. I cannot rate it badly, because on a objective level, the film is alright. But god damn is it not worth watching. I would rather watch something bad over this because I would have a higher chance of being entertained then. I think this movie beats The Wave for the award of being the movie that everyone watched at school. I promise never to have my class watch this in my lessons." 2.5/5 Now to wait for MeleeMonk to tell me how wrong I am and how I cannot possibly understand art like this based upon his judgment of me as an artist because of my avatar.
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MeleeMonk
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Post by MeleeMonk on Jun 12, 2020 3:23:01 GMT
www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-scott-morrison-prime-minister-wants-blm-protesters-charged-claims-country-had-no-slavery/I'm reviving this thread because of the race-tensions that Australia's PM created for the country's aborigine population after Scott Morrison recently made a particularly astounding comment in regards to the country's history: "while slave ships continued to travel around the world, when Australia was established, yes sure, it was a pretty brutal settlement… but there was no slavery in Australia."-Scott Morrison What a piece of shit. Comments like that make me want to take to the streets and join the George Floyd protesters. White conservative trash like Morrison, Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro continue to keep igniting race wars through their ignorance and racism. He should consider watching this movie.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jun 12, 2020 9:07:43 GMT
This movie isn't about slavery though.
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MeleeMonk
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Post by MeleeMonk on Jun 14, 2020 1:31:02 GMT
This movie isn't about slavery though. You don't consider that slavery??? Welp, speak for yourself then, because I sure as hell take issue with the problems white people created for these girls in this film. Honestly, I think anyone with a good conscience would look back at this part of Australia's history and object to the way white aussies took possession of these native people. In this story they even forced a bounty hunter to track them down when they ran away. That's fucking slavery in my book.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jun 14, 2020 8:18:02 GMT
This movie isn't about slavery though. You don't consider that slavery??? Welp, speak for yourself then, because I sure as hell take issue with the problems white people created for these girls in this film. Honestly, I think anyone with a good conscience would look back at this part of Australia's history and object to the way white aussies took possession of these native people. In this story they even forced a bounty hunter to track them down when they ran away. That's fucking slavery in my book. Thos is a problem about pushing culture onto another culture, a cultural genocide. It has happened to many indigenous people over the world. It happened to the Sami people here in Norway too. It's tragic, but we need to learn from it. But we can't do that if we can't distinguish between it and slavery because it's not the same at all.
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