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More talk, no action in indigenous affairs : Comments
By Andrew Laming, published 30/6/2011Labor is applying a recycling policy to indigenous affairs - the reports and even their titles, remain the same.
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Well meaning Labor ideologues are utterly convinced that all human races and ethnicities must be equal in every way, and therefore everyone on planet earth must have equal rights. Rather perversely, by some application of Doublethink, these same people demand that indigenous people should have different rights than everybody else. That sure looks like racism to me. But these people seem to think entirely in moral absolutes and are unable to discern the contradictions in their own orthodoxy. Hence they can support the UN’s new “Indigenous Rights”, which differ from other "Human Rights", without clashing mental gears.
One right of equality which the left wingers utterly demanded was the right of aborigines to drink alcohol like white people. When it was pointed out that the consequences for aboriginal people would be catastrophic, the lefties were nonplussed. Every race must be equal, and nothing less than that was acceptable. This stupid policy created much of the ghastly problem which we see now today. Unable to admit that they were wrong all along because something was fundamentally wrong with their sacred ideology, we see the left wingers wasting squillions of sorely needed taxpayer dollars with all sorts of expensive programs to alleviate the damage they created.
Past administrations simply took it for granted that aboriginal people were not very intelligent, and that the white administrations had a responsibility to look after them. These administrations enforced race based rules which were designed to protect aborigines and to give the aboriginal kids a chance. From my perspective, I think that this paternalistic and racist approach was far more successful in alleviating aboriginal dysfunction.
But the Humanitarians think that they are the keepers of the gate for all that is good and holy, that they are the intelligent ones, and for them to admit hat they were ever wrong would be a particularly unpalatable piece of crow to eat