Re: The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread
Reply #383 –
Without wanting to state anything about the original position, Kevin Rudd got up and said this sorry.
At some point, this isn't about righting wrongs its about making sure that the rage is maintained. It's anti reconciliation and stands only to provoke and inflame.
Why do you think there is a giant backlash evey single time these matters come up?
Its because people shouldn't be made to feel guilt and shame for the ills of people that came before them.
Gallipoli literally translates to blue city in my native Greek language. What do you think Turkey have to say about the hellespont and Gallipoli peninsula? Nothing. Its theirs was always theirs will always be theirs and nothing that anyone says will say otherwise including the conversion of Christian churches to Islamic temples.
The people that live in these places call it their home. No apology will erase history. If someone wronged me, asking their children to apologise on their behalf is petty. At some point you need to let bygones be bygones and let people heal from these wounds not reinforce it and hold it against them for ever.
I’m sorry Thry but that is a complete misunderstanding of what is a complex situation.
Kevin Rudd quite rightly offered an apology for government policies that, while probably well-meaning, had dire consequences for Indigenous Australians. Rudd’s apology had nothing to do with Lang Hancock’s genocidal rant.
It’s worth noting that Hancock was advocating genocide in the 1980s. When did the Ottoman Empire displace the Byzantine Empire?
One could also ask when was the Islamic Al Andalus empire overthrown by the Christians (with the pagan Vikings running interference)?
Your cultural heritage doesn’t give you insight into the colonial treatment of Indigenous Australians, Melanesians, Polynesians, Native Americans, South Asians, etc.