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Discussion (7 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

petermcneeley•about 3 hours ago
Wow you know its gonna be good when the first thing you are hit on the page is some sorta bizarre land acknowledgement.
worik•about 3 hours ago
Be patient with Australians. They have have a terrible tradition of vicious racism.

The indigenous people of Australia were only considered part of Australian society (e.g. counted in the census) in 1967. As a New Zealander visiting Australia the casual racism of white Australians is mind blowing. New Zealand is not free from racism, far from it. Australia is next level

It will take a few generations for Australians to come to terms with living on stolen land, and to adjust to being colonisers. (White New Zelanders, Pākehā have been doing this for over thirty years, it is a process)

It is odd to put that declaration on a web page, how a digital asset is comparable to standing on land is clearly something the Australians are working on. Good luck to them, move on and let it be.

petermcneeley•28 minutes ago
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
IncreasePosts•about 2 hours ago
What exactly is supposed to happen though? "Don't be horribly racist" is a nice idea, but it's not like we see people who put these acknowledgements up actually attempting to return the "stolen land"

I think it makes sense to put it on the website if you're going to do it though, since it's a website about, basically, a building in melbourne.

TMWNN•about 3 hours ago
The same performative nonsense occurs in Canada.

Land acknowledgements are the ultimate in virtue signaling; once they actually mean something, they suddenly end. Two overlapping tribal claims in New Brunswick cover 100% of the province. Thus, New Brunswick provincial employees ordered to not make land acknowledgements while working, because of legal case <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/first-nations-n...>.

worik•about 3 hours ago
What is the counter factual to "virtue signaling"?

I think you need to rethink what you expect!

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