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10/02/16
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Originally posted by Lapdog
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Rabbitoh, the data quoted in Parliament today clearly demonstrated that since John Howard's changes and especially his military intervention into Aboriginal communities, incarceration rates for Aborigines has worsened.
Together with Howard's steadfast refusal to acknowledge the pain suffered by Aborigines as the consequence of British 'settlement', the message communicated to Aborigines was IMO cringeworthy while the impact on those harbouring racist attitudes disturbing.
IMO; for those NOT in denial issues such as lack of understanding, differential outcomes from the criminal justice system and alienation; those matters alone are screaming at us that we're not listening to understand, we're just listening to exploit and to denigrate.
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Compared to the treatment of native Indians in the USA, the millions tortured and murdered by the hordes of Mongols in China, and the millions murdered and tortured throughout Europe and Asia in WWII, the arrival of Europeans in Australia, was a picnic.