australia new zealand canada

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"thank god we& #39;re not like america!"

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sweeping Indigenous issues under the rug,
putting on a friendly front for the rest of
the world, deeply racist

this isn& #39;t a case of Who Wore It Best: Coloniser Edition - we each have our own racist structures to assess and dismantle. I see too many of my fellow Aussies going "glad we aren& #39;t racist!" but we are. maybe not each of us individually, but the foundations of the nation itself.

being ignorant is a privilege. being chuffed about it is especially vicious. Aussies shouldn& #39;t be gloating about how our very successfully-implemented genocide policies mean that the general public only have to pay attention to racism when it& #39;s a) trending b) American.

when I say & #39;Indigenous issues& #39; I& #39;m also referring to treatment of other nations& #39; native people by these countries. Australia assisted NZ in quelling Maori uprisings. NZ took violent, oppressive control of Samoa. many people don& #39;t know this because it& #39;s... swept under the rug.

"that& #39;s history, that& #39;s ages ago" when the systems historically implemented to disenfranchise people are still in place, saying "that& #39;s history" is the same as handing me evidence. history is proof of oppressive racist systems being unjustly imposed and maintained to this day.