HMMMMMM ……… I NEVER EVER SHOT ANY OF ‘EM NOR STOLEANYBODY’S LAND.
NOR DID ANY OF MY RELLIES.
MAYBE IT’S TIME THIS NONSENSE CEASED ?
Have We All Had Enough of ‘Welcome to Country’ Yet?
Even Indigenous leaders are over itall
by Lushington D.Brady 10 August, 2022
They don't really believe a word ofit, of course. The BFD.
You know you’ve reached asaturation-point of Wokery when even the intersectional voodoo dolls startpulling the pins. Senator Pauline Hanson’s furious reaction to thefatuous “Acknowledgment of Country” at the opening of the most recent Senatemight have set heads wagging and brows furrowing on the left, but she was notwithout her supporters amongst Aboriginal Australians.
Indigenous Senator JacintaNampijinpa Pricedefended Hanson’s reaction to the vacuous tokenism.
“We’ve just been absolutelysaturated with it,” Price said. “I’ve had my fill of being symbolicallyrecognised, like, I’ve had enough of it. It’s really nothing to improve thelives of marginalised people.”
Yes, but it makes city-based whitewokesters feel good. That’s all that matters.
Consequently, we’re endlesslybombarded with Acknowledgment of Country at everything from parent-teachermeetings, Zoom calls, and regional plane flights. Even low-brow tv shows.
Indigenous leaders have slammedreality shows for using the Acknowledgment of Country, labelling the gesture‘condescending’ to Aboriginal people.
As Jacinta Price said, while theAcknowledgement might once have been a nice gesture at particularly importantoccasions of state, it’s now become nothing more than empty tokenism.
Wurundjeri elder Ian Huntertold The Daily Telegraph on Monday that the use of the acknowledgementon The Masked Singer and The Block was ‘totally unnecessary’.
‘It should only be used whereappropriate such as a citizenship ceremony,’ Mr Hunter told the publication.
‘When too many people use it verylightly it devalues our ceremonial programs – it’s condescending,’ he added.
One of the most ludicrous abuses ofAcknowledgment of Country I’d previously encountered was at a wedding in one ofMelbourne’s hipster suburbs, to an audience of solidly lily-whiteAnglo-Australians.
“Hold our skinny almond-milklattes,” say the lefty prats.
Mr Hunter’s comments come after OsherGünsberg introduced Sunday night’s premiere of The Masked Singerwith an acknowledgment.
‘We welcome you tonight fromGadigal land, a place of beauty and abundance, where the sandstone meets thesea,’ Günsberg said.
‘We pay our respects to thetraditional custodians of this country, and elders past, present and emerging,and extend our respects to any to First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres StraitIsland people joining us tonight.’
And the audience yawned andscratched their bums. Who benefitted from this asinine tokenism?
But even that display of bienpensant dullardness isn’t quite the bottom of the brainless barrel.
Channel Nine’s The Blockalso aired an Acknowledgment of Country prior to Sunday’s premiere.
‘The Block and the City ofMelbourne respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi, Wurrung and BunurongBoon Wurrung peoples as the traditional custodians of the land on which thisproduction has taken place, and pay our respects to elders past, present andemerging. Always was, always will be, Kulin Nation land,’ it read.
They don’t really believe a word ofit, of course.
This, on a show dedicated to realestate porn. Which, if they really believed their woke nonsense, wouldhave the show’s makers handing over the titular block to the local Aboriginalco-operative.
After all, if they truly believedthat it “always will be” Aboriginal land, then, by their own admission, they’rein possession of stolen goods. Imagine acknowledging that a looted WWII-erapainting had been stolen — and then refusing to give it back. You’d be rightlybranded a hypocrite.
Just like the cretins who witter“always will be”, while they live on what they claim to be “stolen” land.
The Block’s castand crew are understood to have also undergone Indigenous cultural training ina bid to respect the land where the show’s latest renovations take place.
Which, I’ve no doubt, they werecharged a pretty penny for, by some spurious “Uncle” or “Aunty” who’d recentlydiscovered a distant, part-aboriginal ancestor.
