1y ago

History of Australia

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- I do not understand the need to whitewash (hah!) indigenous history to erase wars and conflict. Humans fight each other, and indigenous humans are human just like white humans.
  What they didn't do is war at the scale that white people have done. That's the innovation.
  
  the need to whitewash (hah!) indigenous history to erase wars and conflict
  "The noble savage" myth thing rearing its' ugly head again, not too different than "only aliens could have built the pyramids/Machu Pichu/the Moai".
  I wonder why they never say the same thing about the Parthenon, or the Great Wall of China, or so many huge structures in India. Some may be a little more recent, sure, but it's all still about lifting pretty big rocks.
  
  Yes, but that's not good propaganda which is 95% of the reason the disinformation hub Hexbear exists.
Hey, that sounds like the history of Canada too!
- And the USA! And most of Europe before the Romans!
  
  Technically, most of that is pre-history, since history is defined as the written record of what happened in the past.
  
  And everywhere else on the planet throughout human history.
Image with better resolution
- Now?! When I read it squinting?
  
  Was easier for me to look for a readable version than to strain my eyes.
  Oddly, the numbers in the 9th and 10th panels are different between the cartoonist's tumblr (my link) and facebook (op image) versions.
Why does this kid have demon bug eyes?
- I'm pretty sure they're just empty eye sockets... Which makes me wonder why he's pretending to read the paper? 🤔
TIL the word corroboree, neat.
- https://www.sbs.com.au/mygrandmotherslingo/
  
  That was really cool, thanks for sharing
  
  Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
  
  Can't use that, super broken
Wow the cartoonist really destroyed their opponent in this imaginary scenario!
Also why tf does the boy have demonic eyes
Yeah this is fantasy.
- Yeah this is fantasy.
  Oh, I thought this meme was meant to be a documentary on school-age children. Now that I know that it isn't, I can...
  ... what do I do with this information, again?
  Seriously, I might quibble as to the line between history and prehistory (which a good portion of that 60,000 years would be), but there's nothing here that's fundamentally wrong.

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