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should these guys be allowed to publically celebrate australia day? (1 Viewer)

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well objectively they didn't go too far bcz they're just posing behind a sign and flags

the socialists ive met at uni and at protests are a whole diff crowd, they're very vocal abt standing for first nations
 

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looks like they're meat riding the UK
 

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I just find it stupid to wave the UK flag while "celebrating" Australia day, because it implies that we should care about our heritage (which I disagree with) and this is also the ideology of the Aboriginals protesting against Australia day.
 

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why is it stupid? the australian flag literally has the uk flag on it

they're an ethnonationalist group, and australia was created by people from the british isles who remain the predominant majority population in the country to this day - so waving the uk flag makes perfect sense for a group like this
 

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And? does the UK flag mean/symbolise the same thing to you as the Australian flag?
 

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I said I found it stupid BECAUSE I disagree with heritage being important not because it wouldn't make sense for them to do it.
 

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my bad, I didn't mean they're stupid I meant you're stupid asf for using slurs to express opinions 😐 sorry if that turned out wrong mods, love ya!!
 

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I said I found it stupid BECAUSE I disagree with heritage being important not because it wouldn't make sense for them to do it.
well then that's even dumber bc ethnicity and your heritage does actually matter and is important, its the most fundamental form of human group and individual expression besides immediate family
 

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When people put their heritage above all else, it creates hatred, division and resentment. When people put their heritage below all else, it allows them to understand each other instead of treating one another as outsiders.
 

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When people put their heritage above all else, it creates hatred, division and resentment. When people put their heritage below all else, it allows them to understand each other instead of treating one another as outsiders.
am i also the only person who basically doesn't know their heritage

like i know the general region but not mcuh else really, i get why some people are invested in it due to culture and all that but like that doesn't mean u can kick people from other heritages out of ur country (which btw, australia is pretty much built on immigration especially from people who aren't white, without it this country probably would have failed so i cant understand why people want to just make the country white or whatever, yuck)
 

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it's important to know and connect with your heritage but if you make it your personality then that's how you become an intolerant close minded person, or country if we're talking large scale
 

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it's important to know and connect with your heritage but if you make it your personality then that's how you become an intolerant close minded person, or country if we're talking large scale
so most people in the world are intolerant and close minded?
 

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