Politically correct society (3 Viewers)

[soloooooo]

what is a smoking ceremony

An Aboriginal elder lights two sticks together and from what I gather, cleanses away the bad spirits etc.

 

[Lentern]

I am happy to show respect, although not pay for it. If the Aboriginal people feel they need a smoking ceremony (another question/debate in itself) then they should do it for free when invited to do so at events.

So are you against people getting paid a fee to sing the national anthem?

 

[soloooooo]

So are you against people getting paid a fee to sing the national anthem?

Yes. It should be enough of an honour for Ricki-lee Coulter or some other singer to sing the national anthem at an event.

 

[Lentern]

Yes. It should be enough of an honour for Ricki-lee Coulter or some other singer to sing the national anthem at an event.

Well I think there is far more cases of people singing the national anthem for a fee than smoking ceremonies so how bout you get back to us when you've successfully reversed the more prevalent trend?

 

[SnowFox]

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/.../comments/if_were_so_welcome_why_must_we_pay/

"COUNCILS are spending tens of thousands of dollars on Aboriginal welcome-to-country ceremonies amid claims by a tribal elder that some costs are extravagant. It costs up to $850 for an elder to perform a 20-minute welcome and smoking ceremony."

What a scam. I understand the practice is culturally significant to Indigenous Australians and it should be respected and performed. Although if they want to perform it, do it for free. Do not charge fricking up to $850 to do it. At prices like those it shouldn't be done if it cannot be done cheaper (i.e. free).

Take it as a land rent fee.

 

[Humanitarian4]

Model of a "too" Politically Correct Society?

"Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the RSFSR
Adopted by the Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets
10 July 1918

Part Two: General Provisions of the Constitution of the RSFSR

CHAPTER FIVE

Article 22. The Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, recognizing the equality of rights of all citizens, irrespective of their race or nationality, declares the establishment or toleration on this basis of any privileges or advantages, or any oppression of national minorities or restriction of their equality, to be contraventions of the fundamental laws of the Republic."

1918 Constitution of the USSR, Part II

Those words of that Soviet Constitution resulted in the following genocide:


GULAG PART 1v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITvDn5-qF0

GULAG 2v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwtmFr8th0

GULAG PART 3v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04gEjB-bZs

GULAG PART 4v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hA9drjCX6U

We have to be aware of the difference between words and actions when studying political systems.

 

[Debauchee]

Take it as a land rent fee.

I think said fees have been more than covered by billions in wealth transfers (welfare spending.)

 

[Graney]

GULAG PART 1v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITvDn5-qF0

GULAG 2v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSwtmFr8th0

shittest video I've ever seen

 

[Humanitarian4]

shittest video I've ever seen

I know. The Soviet Constitution of 1918 looks so good on the surface.

There are other Soviet videos on that site:

GULAG PART 8v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqfV0XCySZU

GULAG PART 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjdn_CuGNjs

They are indeed hard to look at.

 

[Humanitarian4]

shittest video I've ever seen

Politically Correct society can be shitty, apparently. Evidently the Soviets killed poets, artists who were not "politically correct" so to speak. It is shitty and it frightens every artist.

When we read the 1918 Soviet Constitution it is all about "equality" etc. but the documentaries on that site tell a different story in reality.

GULAG 9 1v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35s179KwEo

GULAG PART 6v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Z1peXoAsA

The videos show an entirely different, almost exact opposite of the 1918 Constitution. I guess the Marxists said one thing but did another.

 

[CarlU]

Yes, today you can't say anything without being called a bigot, racist, sexist or a homophobe. Overused words imo.

 

[soloooooo]

Australia should go back to what it was like 50 years ago.

 

[soloooooo]

If you say so
Income Tax Thresholds

What am I looking at? [it is a poor graph with no axial labels]

 

[soloooooo]

Okay. So what is your point?

 

[funkshen]

Australia should go back to the way it was around 200 million years ago.

 

[Absolutezero]

Australia should go back to the way it was around 200 million years ago.

Pangaea Pride

 

[Lolsmith]

Australia should go back to where it came from

 

[Galapagos]

Yes, today you can't say anything without being called a bigot, racist, sexist or a homophobe. Overused words imo.

Racist is THE most overused word out of them all. But that might just be my TAFE lol.

 

[funkshen]

All countries should go back to where they came from.