“Europeans, and the governments that have run our country, have raped, killed and stolen,” he wrote in Fairfax newspapers.
reference to the 'government' rather than all of us & our forefathers.
Goodes attacked Australians who resisted this lurid characterisation of our past: “The people who benefited most from those rapes, those killings and that theft ... turn away in disgust when someone seeks to expose it.”
again, only a reference to a minority rather than everyone
Adam, my grandparents committed no thefts, rapes or murders. My ancestors were all in Europe when, you claim, our governments were raping and slaughtering Aborigines.
Adam never referred to your grandparents, unless they were in the controlling governments or, otherwise, land stealers
Before British settlement, Aboriginal deaths in tribal warfare rivalled European losses, per capita, in World War I, says historian Geoffrey Blainey in Triumph of the Nomads.
Life for many Aborigines then was brutishly harsh and often included appalling rates of violence against women, as established by paleopathology expert Stephen Webb from the evidence of fractured skulls
irrelevant
After all, a 13-year-old girl was subjected to national humiliation after she shouted “ape” at the bearded footballer from the sidelines of a tense game.
She was removed from the stands and made to wait two hours after she’d been interviewed by police while it was decided what to do with her.
She was then called the “face” of racism. The girl was named and film of her shown around the country, although she insisted she had not meant “ape” as a racial slur and was sorry.
There was only one way Goodes, a powerful adult, could be seen as the victim in this contest with a schoolgirl.
indeed, which is why he should have never been chosen as Australian of the Year
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Andrew's initial views were illogical, as I demonstrated
