Reply #105: That had zero to do with what I said... [View All]

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I was talking about how indigenous Australians and quite a few others refer to Australia Day as Invasion Day, and how none of us are run off...

If you want to learn about the history of indigenous Australians since European settlement, I can point you to a few books. While there were massacres (just like what happened to the Palestinians) and in Tasmania, genocide, to claim that they were hunted down and killed en masse is completely incorrect.For the most part, their land was stolen from them by European settlers, who sometimes would shoot them when they dared to return to grab a few sheep, while many others were exploited by the same settlers who stole their land, 'employing' them to work the land while only giving them a pittance in food, while Europeans doing less work than them were paid in cash....


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