Your title made me laugh. Well, museum curators and journalists and various other professionals... as the saying goes, God makes them and they find each other. As for attempts to demoralize me, I recognize them for what they are, and I find them (dependning on my mood and the weather) either hilarious or tedious.
Basically, according to good people(tm) only Aboriginal people are the rightful inhabitants of Australia. Everyone else who is non-Aboriginal must be 'welcomed' to various places in the country. It does not matter if your family was taken in chains as prisoners by the English at the founding of the nation or you are a fresh migrant.
Essentially, YOU DO NOT BELONG.
This is a Satanic inversion - a humilation ritual, where one is 'welcomed' but it really reads 'fuck off and pay us the rent you white/Asian/whatever and FEEL BAD FOR YOUR RACE.'
Most of these fake Aboriginals are paid HUGE sums of money to attend functions to blow smoke around and dance a bit where people call them 'aunty' or 'uncle' and they berate people.
There are also 'minor' welcomes to country where people 'acknowledge country' at the beginning of Zoom meetings and change the names of great cities like Melbourne and Sydney to sdljfsoeiur and wekjsndlslo to show 'inclusion.'
It is a fake ceremony invented in the 1970s to grift money.
The government is doing this as a humiliation ritual to divide the country and destroy us from within. It was not like this 25 years ago. Race relations are absolutely awful right now.
Edit: It is the official Australian state religion. I am not kidding, this is not hyperbole. Welcome to country like prayers before every activity. I either turn my back, walk out, or stay seated. Often I will not attend an event if there is a 'welcome to country.'
Stuff like this is great for reaching "normal people" and break them out of their conditioning. Tell someone they are being an evil racist colonialist for collecting houseplants and they'll call you insane. Then show them articles like this and they'll believe it a joke. Then - you have the necessary starting point to start imparting to them the mental tools they need to recognise the coded language of mental oppression and conditioning they are being bombarded with 24/7.
It works. I've showed people similar stuff, and it really works - they start rejecting the silliness ("problematic bird-names" is a recent one) and may even start protesting when some True Beleiver starts trying to scold them for using "the wrong word".
Case in point: my younger brother's partner-turned-spouse forbade him from used the term 'retard' (which he frequently employed in years prior). While certainly his use of the term was often more like 'moron' or 'idiot', my brother's spouse initially began with limits, such as permitting use of the term 'retard' three times per week; they're now at a full ban on the word.
While you may or may not consider this stupid (which it is), it's exactly the way you described it: it may start out as well-intentioned, but the dynamic appears to be always in favour of mission creep and the eventual employ of such tools to suppress speech. and thus thought.
In my neck of the woods we have been informed from on high (don't open that box of sociology, you can't be sure what Soros creature will crawl out) that we can no longer call homeless people "homeless people," no, now they are to be called "unhoused persons." My favorite relative responded to this with, "Oh, you mean vagrants."
I could give innumerable examples of words that all of a sudden are deemed bad, and the people who use them very bad; new words are provided which one "must" use instead. This is not a natural evolution of language (of course words used change over time) but something purposeful, and meant to demoralize. It's like pre-1970s French fashion, one really must scramble, à la Charlie Chaplin on his rollerskates, to keep up. It's at the point now where no matter how "politically correct" you might try to be," you're going to say something "wrong"— and then get piled on by the righteously woke. Charlie Chaplin, though, he always managed to sail on. And I think that's it: he who sees the comedy wins.
Exactly the point of these shenanigans. The point of this exercise is, of course, to make you, at first, think twice before saying anything and, secondly, to say nothing.
Wait until the museum starts giving an acknowledgment of stolen land before everything they say (for the indigenous Celtic people who lived in Vienna before; or, more likely, they will claim that Turks are indigenous since the 1600s and that most “Austrians” are recent invaders from other parts of Europe).
Funny. But it's not really about acknowledging the people who came before, as it might seem on the surface of things; it's about shaming the people who are here now and who presumably have families that have been around for a while. Celts long ago blended in to the European population in that area, so they won't serve the purpose. Too bad for the Viennese wokies, they're missing that particular cudgel.
I would love to see a land acknowledgment naming the Roman settlement...
And did you know, there's actually a professor in the US, Cyclone Covey, who wrote a book arguing that there was a Roman settlement named Calalus in present-day Tucson, Arizona? If you can find a copy, grab it, it's quite a collector's item.
Ahahahahaa, and I thought online meme-tic claims that the Americas would be the true (sic) 'Old World' would be the top of these inanities--but now I'll have a new quest to locate a copy of that book…
I only glanced at a screenshot and decided it wasn't worth my time: I had no idea it was that stupid.
Speaking of which, here's another one: my dear colleagues recently published a two-vol. History of the Sámi (one pre-1750, the other one focussing on the era thereafter), of course in Norwegian. While they are working towards a translation, the importance of their findings cannot be overstated: turns out that the Vikings were neither the blood-thirsty, Wagner-esque caricatures nor the Sámi the conventional peaceful natives. They worked together (probably also inter-married--see below*), traded extensively (which enabled the Vikings to go on conquests abroad), and were kinda all-in on these things: what a wonderful revisionist proposition, eh?
(*) Now for the stupid-as-fuck part: the Sámi are Norway's indigenous people (it's the law, don't argue with me for I'm but the messenger), yet it's hard to kinda figure out what's the distinct trait that renders you a Sámi. As far as I'm able to determine, what makes you a Sámi is a kind of declaration that you are, but you may or may not be admitted into the ranks of the Sámi if your grandparents didn't speak Sámi at home. So, it's basically the perfect nonsensical thing: feel like it, but don't forget to somehow prove that three generations spoke Sámi at home to get approval. You can't make this up.
For what it's worth, at least Norway, while far from not trying to 'fornorsk' the Sámi, didn't run a gov't-sponsored, systematic (borderline) genocidal program lie the Danish gov't did in Greenland: I suppose 'hey, we're not as sick as these guys' must count for something, right?
Ha, the Sameting has the same rules here and in Finland, as the ones you cite from Norway, due to their old rules violating a whole slew of anti-discriminatory laws. Originally, the law governing who's a Sámi was a blood-law on par with 193- to 1945 Germany; you'd have to be able to show blood heritage several generations back, your family had to own reindeer (votes weighted against herd size at one point in time), women had no vote no matter what, and you had to speak Sámi fluently.
And only if you met these conditions could you apply for be given a vote by the Ting, who of course only awarded the vote to members of the families controlling the Ting already.
In Sweden, some 95% of "Sámi" live in Stockholm and other cities and are indistinguishable from Swedes.
And the reindeer "industry" is propped up by tax subsidies and welfare 100%.
Hehe, I do admit to having some succulents, albeit 'only' outside: the chicken like to pick them, the dog loves to pee on them, and the cat does, well, whatever cats are doing (she likes to poop near them). It's pest control by-by-pets (pests).
A fun thing to do is think of any word or activity and then type it into your browser to see if it is 'racist.'
Anyway, just standing by for your take on this latest atrocity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX1eGLXVEDY&t=142s
For God's sake, when is the Pope going to step in and fire every single cardinal and bishop in Germany.
Judgement will arrive.
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Your title made me laugh. Well, museum curators and journalists and various other professionals... as the saying goes, God makes them and they find each other. As for attempts to demoralize me, I recognize them for what they are, and I find them (dependning on my mood and the weather) either hilarious or tedious.
Shakespeare's Iago comes to mind.
My personal take is: ridicule and satirise them as often, and as frequently, as possible.
When they start crying, ridicule and satirise them more.
Rinse and repeat.
Yes [insert here GIF of crappy 1970s era acrylic painting of crying clown]
Ma'am we have 'welcome to countries' on domestic flights here.
At least people boo now.
What does that mean? I suppose I understand the words, but I'm at a loss as to what they mean in combination…
Oh God.
Basically, according to good people(tm) only Aboriginal people are the rightful inhabitants of Australia. Everyone else who is non-Aboriginal must be 'welcomed' to various places in the country. It does not matter if your family was taken in chains as prisoners by the English at the founding of the nation or you are a fresh migrant.
Essentially, YOU DO NOT BELONG.
This is a Satanic inversion - a humilation ritual, where one is 'welcomed' but it really reads 'fuck off and pay us the rent you white/Asian/whatever and FEEL BAD FOR YOUR RACE.'
Most of these fake Aboriginals are paid HUGE sums of money to attend functions to blow smoke around and dance a bit where people call them 'aunty' or 'uncle' and they berate people.
There are also 'minor' welcomes to country where people 'acknowledge country' at the beginning of Zoom meetings and change the names of great cities like Melbourne and Sydney to sdljfsoeiur and wekjsndlslo to show 'inclusion.'
It is a fake ceremony invented in the 1970s to grift money.
For our troubles, non-Aboriginals are extorted in land grabs like so: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14746655/Aboriginal-native-title-claim.html
Or they close mountains so no one can hike: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13704761/NSW-Mount-Warning-hiking-ban-protest-marc-hendrickx-john-ruddick-wollumbin.html
Or they murder people after being out on bail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14641309/Darwin-supermarket-owner-identified.html
If you want to see what race relations are like in Aboriginal areas this gives a pretty good indication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGz1Tiaying
The government is doing this as a humiliation ritual to divide the country and destroy us from within. It was not like this 25 years ago. Race relations are absolutely awful right now.
Edit: It is the official Australian state religion. I am not kidding, this is not hyperbole. Welcome to country like prayers before every activity. I either turn my back, walk out, or stay seated. Often I will not attend an event if there is a 'welcome to country.'
Well, thank you for the explanation--I wasn't aware this was the case in Australia, too (my knowledge of these absurdities extended barely to Canada).
That said, I expect that kind of nonsense to spill over to Europe any day now.
Positive take:
Stuff like this is great for reaching "normal people" and break them out of their conditioning. Tell someone they are being an evil racist colonialist for collecting houseplants and they'll call you insane. Then show them articles like this and they'll believe it a joke. Then - you have the necessary starting point to start imparting to them the mental tools they need to recognise the coded language of mental oppression and conditioning they are being bombarded with 24/7.
It works. I've showed people similar stuff, and it really works - they start rejecting the silliness ("problematic bird-names" is a recent one) and may even start protesting when some True Beleiver starts trying to scold them for using "the wrong word".
Exactly.
Case in point: my younger brother's partner-turned-spouse forbade him from used the term 'retard' (which he frequently employed in years prior). While certainly his use of the term was often more like 'moron' or 'idiot', my brother's spouse initially began with limits, such as permitting use of the term 'retard' three times per week; they're now at a full ban on the word.
While you may or may not consider this stupid (which it is), it's exactly the way you described it: it may start out as well-intentioned, but the dynamic appears to be always in favour of mission creep and the eventual employ of such tools to suppress speech. and thus thought.
>'retard'
But sir, how does one then speak French?
When describing being late, is it now 'en special people'?
Also, since punctuality is an allegedly white-supremacist quality anyways, the obvious answer is, and always™ has been: racist.
Hahaha
In my neck of the woods we have been informed from on high (don't open that box of sociology, you can't be sure what Soros creature will crawl out) that we can no longer call homeless people "homeless people," no, now they are to be called "unhoused persons." My favorite relative responded to this with, "Oh, you mean vagrants."
I could give innumerable examples of words that all of a sudden are deemed bad, and the people who use them very bad; new words are provided which one "must" use instead. This is not a natural evolution of language (of course words used change over time) but something purposeful, and meant to demoralize. It's like pre-1970s French fashion, one really must scramble, à la Charlie Chaplin on his rollerskates, to keep up. It's at the point now where no matter how "politically correct" you might try to be," you're going to say something "wrong"— and then get piled on by the righteously woke. Charlie Chaplin, though, he always managed to sail on. And I think that's it: he who sees the comedy wins.
Exactly the point of these shenanigans. The point of this exercise is, of course, to make you, at first, think twice before saying anything and, secondly, to say nothing.
Tyrants fear laughter more than truth?
Laughter that is prompted by truth.
Wait until the museum starts giving an acknowledgment of stolen land before everything they say (for the indigenous Celtic people who lived in Vienna before; or, more likely, they will claim that Turks are indigenous since the 1600s and that most “Austrians” are recent invaders from other parts of Europe).
Funny. But it's not really about acknowledging the people who came before, as it might seem on the surface of things; it's about shaming the people who are here now and who presumably have families that have been around for a while. Celts long ago blended in to the European population in that area, so they won't serve the purpose. Too bad for the Viennese wokies, they're missing that particular cudgel.
Sure, but what have the Romans ever done for us?
lol Wherefore art thou, Monty Python??
I would love to see a land acknowledgment naming the Roman settlement...
And did you know, there's actually a professor in the US, Cyclone Covey, who wrote a book arguing that there was a Roman settlement named Calalus in present-day Tucson, Arizona? If you can find a copy, grab it, it's quite a collector's item.
Ahahahahaa, and I thought online meme-tic claims that the Americas would be the true (sic) 'Old World' would be the top of these inanities--but now I'll have a new quest to locate a copy of that book…
I just checked abebooks.com There's one first edition with dustcover on offer for about 500 USD and another for USD 1,000.
Our museums are busy claiming the Sámi were here first.
The problem for them is that there are petroglyphs and genetical archeology proving that the ancestors of the Swedes?
Came here as the ice receded. The Sámi came here this side of the Renaissance.
Didn't SVT run some 'documentary' showing that the first Swedes were black™?
Not black, Negros.
Same at some museums. Negros. Based on the same Science that claimed Vikings were moslems, and half the Vikings were women.
It's Heinrich Himmler-levels of "make your ideological history fit the doctrine" over here.
I only glanced at a screenshot and decided it wasn't worth my time: I had no idea it was that stupid.
Speaking of which, here's another one: my dear colleagues recently published a two-vol. History of the Sámi (one pre-1750, the other one focussing on the era thereafter), of course in Norwegian. While they are working towards a translation, the importance of their findings cannot be overstated: turns out that the Vikings were neither the blood-thirsty, Wagner-esque caricatures nor the Sámi the conventional peaceful natives. They worked together (probably also inter-married--see below*), traded extensively (which enabled the Vikings to go on conquests abroad), and were kinda all-in on these things: what a wonderful revisionist proposition, eh?
(*) Now for the stupid-as-fuck part: the Sámi are Norway's indigenous people (it's the law, don't argue with me for I'm but the messenger), yet it's hard to kinda figure out what's the distinct trait that renders you a Sámi. As far as I'm able to determine, what makes you a Sámi is a kind of declaration that you are, but you may or may not be admitted into the ranks of the Sámi if your grandparents didn't speak Sámi at home. So, it's basically the perfect nonsensical thing: feel like it, but don't forget to somehow prove that three generations spoke Sámi at home to get approval. You can't make this up.
For what it's worth, at least Norway, while far from not trying to 'fornorsk' the Sámi, didn't run a gov't-sponsored, systematic (borderline) genocidal program lie the Danish gov't did in Greenland: I suppose 'hey, we're not as sick as these guys' must count for something, right?
Ha, the Sameting has the same rules here and in Finland, as the ones you cite from Norway, due to their old rules violating a whole slew of anti-discriminatory laws. Originally, the law governing who's a Sámi was a blood-law on par with 193- to 1945 Germany; you'd have to be able to show blood heritage several generations back, your family had to own reindeer (votes weighted against herd size at one point in time), women had no vote no matter what, and you had to speak Sámi fluently.
And only if you met these conditions could you apply for be given a vote by the Ting, who of course only awarded the vote to members of the families controlling the Ting already.
In Sweden, some 95% of "Sámi" live in Stockholm and other cities and are indistinguishable from Swedes.
And the reindeer "industry" is propped up by tax subsidies and welfare 100%.
My succulents are definitely colonisers. If they continue growing it’s either them or me in the apartment.
Harr. I suspected you to be a Bauhaus type all along ^-^
Nah. My alignment is chaotic neutral. Those Bauhaus neatfreaks creep me out.
Hehe, I do admit to having some succulents, albeit 'only' outside: the chicken like to pick them, the dog loves to pee on them, and the cat does, well, whatever cats are doing (she likes to poop near them). It's pest control by-by-pets (pests).