Thorny, I'll do anything for you my little turtle, so long as we can go say sorry to the fur seal colonies for wearing and eating their babies.
Crazy dickhead, thanks for the bad rep over caps dude. I hope you slept well after getting that off your chest big boy, give yourself a gold star for me hey dude?
Now, as for this saying sorry shit.
So far you've been arguing over the definition of an apology...And I just cannot comprehend how you can try and refute the definition of a word? Apologising is asking for pardon, or admitting to a fault or offense...
Sigh. Such confusion.
Now, let me see. Seeing as how the firslt fleet didnt come until 1788...And...um, seeing as how that's like..over 200 years ago, ADMITTING to a FAULT would be ADMITTING to MURDER. I'm pretty fucking sure, as being born in 1987, that I didn't kill these dudes.
But let's take another look at this shall we? England was an advanced, exploring race. They had a pretty big empire, and although Theran, Egyptian and Roman civilisations had sewrage systems back when dinosours were still rotting in the deserts, poms were still pissing out their windows into the streets in the 1800s. But we'll let that slide, coz in all honesty, they did effectively manage to own a few asses along the way, including the aboriginies.
Now, Egg, I cant remember every stating that I regret the aboriginies got owned...coz dude, I dont. If they didnt, we wouldnt have Australia.
So, it's safe for me to say, as I wasnt around I could not have committed the offense, therefore I dont apologise. Comprende?
Now, this stolen generation hoo rah. Were any of you in government from 1883-1969?...Neh.
Seeing as how Federation did not happen until 1901, it's Britain who should be assuming responsibilty from 1883-1901.
We'll do a case study ok?
Little Johny has been living in his London pad since he was a lad. The only urchins he sees are the whores on the street and the oliver twists singing annoying tunes on the corner for a bread crust.
Then, he gets sent to Australia, and sees dudes living under trees and catching their food with a stick...Naturally, this would either amuse you or freak you out...In this case it did the latter. We dont need these savages he said, so they went out to take the children and breed them into civilised kiddos. Now...you cant blame a dude for trying? I mean, England really wasnt the brightest crayon in the European box. They honestly thought they were doing the right thing by taking these kids.
Should the people who stole the kids apologise? yes. why? because they are at fault. Should I, or anybody I know agree to saying sorry? no? because we are not at fault.
you cannot take the word apologise and mould it to fit this situation. you cant forget that it means to ask for pardon for an offense...and it's pretty stupid generally to admit to doing something you didnt do.
we can offer condolences, sympathy or a gold sticker.
now, you people saying we cant compare this to other events is bullshit. a shitload of aboriginies were killed. hitler killed a few million, coz he was a git. pol pot should have been eaten by a rabid panda, stalin should have learnt to channel his energies into something like tennis and you should all pull your head out of you tree hugging, fern gully arses.
now ... this redfern/dubbo/entire central west caper. i cannot justify saying sorry somebody who claims to be an aboriginie, when they have blonde hair and blue eyes. this would make them, shock horror, of european decent also...so do they aplogise to themselves?
i honestly have not met an aboriginie who could give a shit about their ancestry, so long as it keeps getting them government hand outs..
oh hey crazy dickhead, they live in poverty...I forgot! So next time I take a drive through West Dubbo, and see some aboriginal dudes ripping up their floor boards to have a bon fire in the front yard of their government funded housing ill feel sorry for them, and stuff. that or i'll throw them a gold coin and tell them to get a job?
and next time I look at the scar on my friends face, i'll tell her to show mercy, because somewhere 30 years ago, aboriginies faced injustice, so it's an excuse for these 17 year old little pricks to do whatever the hell they want, coz apparently we owe them?
next time a white kid steals something, we'll kick his juvenile delinquent ass ... but if it's an aboriginal kid, we'll let him go, so that he doesnt run and land on a fence like a fucking idiot. hey, dipshit, fence, dodge it dickhead.
the cops that got hospitalised during the riots should smile and nod and say 'hell yeah man, i so deserved a kick in the balls and a punch in the face, because theyre aboriginal and they have a right to be angry dude'
next time my mum has to treat a drug crazed or alcoholic white dude in hospital, she should kick his ass and overdose him on morphine for being a moronic little git, but if it's an aboriginal, she should kick her own ass because europeans brought drugs into this country.
next time docs decides to take a kid from its mum, coz shes a herion injecting whore they should give the kid back, coz thinking you're doing the right thing, when it really isn't, is pretty fucking stupid, and in 30 years time people will be apologising for their mistakes.
and that white kid who's depressed and suicidal should just shut up, or go play infront of a train, coz he has nothing to be depressed about dude. but the aboriginal kid does, because like, 200 years ago some aboriginals were murdered, and nobody gives aboriginal kids a chance these days. we'll just forget the countless initiatives and incentives for aboriginal kids...
HEY here's an idea, stop acting like fucking victims for once in your life, and go get a job. the rest of us can, and it's not like, because im white im SOOO much better off than you ... coz i bet if i went and fucked myself up on a fence, nobody would hold a riot in 3 towns for me man...
. And remember, what goes on here, stays on here.