canuckkat

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I got as far as "Gatorade bottles labelled in Mandarin" in the summary to know that it's shotty journalism lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You are correct except for calling the white colonizers "settlers".

Settlers in this context typically means immigrants who came over after Australia became a British colony. Usually non-white but there are plenty of Scottish and Irish families who are settlers because of the whole British enslaving them part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the term you're looking for is covert racism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm Canadian and yeah.... Even IRL a lot of people refuse to admit it.

I've been forced to educate people about the Chinese Head Tax and the 2 very distinct Chinese Exclusion Acts and how that on top of Yellow Peril still affects Chinese disapora today in government regulations including immigration and social programs, which is super traumatic as a Hong Kong diaspora who is also trans, queer, female-bodied, and neurodivergent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure why you're confused because the first sentence of the article literally says:

Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the country’s constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Which sums up why they were trying to make this happen, which also sounds like they don't have an official group of Indigenous peoples advising the government on anything that is an Indigenous issue, which is super bad.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Also, from the article:

Opposition to the voice seized on this ambiguity, adopting a campaign slogan of “if you don’t know, vote no”.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know the Western world still isn't into it, but kids should be allowed to wear masks if they're sick or trying to prevent illness. Like they do in Asian countries.

Especially by the point they're in high school.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Not isolated at all. Black kids (especially girls) get targeted all the time. It's usually ignored or doesn't make the news.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or the Japanese army during WWII.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Really? My Google Sheets has so many formulas and conditional formatting. There's so much I can't do in Excel that I can do in Sheets :/

Also, adding checkboxes in Excel is a pain lol. They made it so difficult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Society has moved on to attacking Trans and non-binary people, gays included in this ignorant lot (obviously not all gays).

People gonna hate what they don't understand or if something makes them uncomfortable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happens all the time IRL to me. I use both he and she pronouns and ignorant people always ask why bother just pick one. Well, I did, they're my PERSONAL pronouns and I chose both these.

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