Joe,

What we're talking about here are the callous actions of a
young police officer who behaved badly. What does
that have to do with what his ancestors may or may not
have done in the past?

What does that have to do with what his ancestors may or may not have done in the past?
Foxy,
He simply inherited their mentality genes ! You should watch some of the "hunting" going on outside the City boundaries. On the other hand there is a kind of parallel with our drug abusers & the new traditional "hunters".

Foxy has it right a grub, who happens to be a Police officer [such people exist o sung wo] did a dreadful thing
Hunters killed for food not fun
He seems clearly unfit to hold his job

I don't have much time for any 'explanation' which involves genes, more like the sheer dominance of actual circumstances.

A distinguished friend, with many decades of experience, has sent me this comment:

"I saw

- the first news report which was just the video of the guys laughing and carrying on as they stone the poor thing to death. The report was run as an anti SA police story

You know – outrage over off-duty policeman’s cruelty to animals. The media loves that sort of thing!

- The second news report hung a strange non-sequitur on the end - Animal right activists want law changed on indigenous right to kill endangered species but without any explanation as the connection between the two parts.

- Then the third report later that night they finally got up the courage to mention the off duty policeman’s indigenous background, but you could see they were getting nervous about running the report They had backed off considerably on the cruelty angle.

And then the story died almost straight away Too difficult. Bagging cops is fine – great journalism - but this is catching the wrong people

It’s a perfect example of how the media wants to slant reports so that you only get what they want you to know … and the listener/reader/watcher has to look for their own little clues to work out what really happened.

But the really great part is the intersectional conflict where we all get to see the real status of the different sectional groups according to the media rules:

* Indigenous trumps animal rights

* Trans trumps gays

* Muslims trump women (Muslims trump everyone!) etc.

There is a great article on the subject by Daniel Greenfield called the Victim Value Index

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-minority-victim-value-index.html "

There has been a crisis in anthropology between objective scientific observations and analysis, and advocacy, for some decades, i.e. in how to properly 'explain' behaviour in traditional societies (not that this bloke's remotely 'traditional'), but this is useful for those who want some reality and truth:

http://quillette.com/2019/10/05/the-dangerous-life-of-an-anthropologist/

Joe

No worse than this,
http://www.9news.com.au/national/kangaroos-hit-and-killed-nsw-south-coast-teenage-driver-charged/c29481e3-94b7-477b-b04e-9019ac7ecfa3
and he could claim it as a cultural thing, for as Paul says, culture is always changing and it is surely a cultural norm in Australia to kill kangaroos with cars.

"Kangaroos accounted for 92.5 per cent of the top five most commonly hit animals on the road with 12,922 of them involved in a crash just last year across the state.

This was followed by wombats with 478 hit on the road, there were 286 cattle hit as well as 154 dogs and 133 cats."
http://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/6225247/tamworth-named-a-roadkill-hotspot-as-drought-causes-spike/

That's 35+ 'roos per day, and that doesn't include the injured who get off the roads and die, often a lingering death, in the bush.

On the other hand, I was driving with an Aboriginal friend along a country road, just yarning, and he swerved to avoid running over a sleepy lizard ambling across the road, almost without thinking. Nice bloke, a great thinker about hard issues. He was probably a damn sight more 'cultural' than this idiot.

Joe