australia new zealand canada


"thank god we're not like america!"


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

this isn'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'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'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's a) trending b) American.

when I say 'Indigenous issues' I'm also referring to treatment of other nations' native people by these countries. Australia assisted NZ in quelling Maori uprisings. NZ took violent, oppressive control of Samoa. many people don't know this because it's... swept under the rug.

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