BP,

The riff raff referred to are activists, not those people in general who claim some Aborignal lineage. Neither were they people locked up for crimes. But, as you chose to get right of the track and advise that Aborigines make up ONLY 29% of the prison population, I’m wondering, if that figure is correct, why the activists make so much fuss about it. Then, of course, there is another statistic that people with some Aboriginal background make only 4% of the Australian population. That means 4% of the population makes up 29% of the prison population. Glad you think thats good news!

But, I repeat: I have no beef with people who identify as Aboriginal. My beef is with the very few of them who are shite-stirring activists, and with the shite-stirring whites who are egging them on. Like the BLM thugs, they are using innocent people who would probably like to left alone to get on with lives that are not much different from everyone else’s in Australia.

ttbn, if your so informed, why not name names.

ttbn, if your so informed, why not name names.
Paul1405,
Would you qualify as a rough guess ?

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« The riff raff referred to are activists, not those people in general who claim some Aboriginal lineage »
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Thanks for the clarification, ttbn, but I’m more than a little surprised you consider activists “riffraff”, i.e., “disreputable or undesirable people” (OED).

Democracies such as we have in Australia do not outlaw activism, whether political or otherwise. Activism is an important part of the democratic process. Individuals and communities have the power to shape government policy and society by campaigning for change. As long as the activism is peaceful and respectful, not only is it legal but perfectly acceptable.

Quite frankly, ttbn, I can’t imagine that you would prefer a totalitarian regime as in Communist China, for example, where the slightest criticism is severely repressed. In China, even you would be branded a dangerous activist for your constant criticism of the country’ political leader as you criticise Scomo in Australia.

Also, so far as I can judge from your posts on this Forum, you appear to be more of a conservative than a progressist. The Aboriginal activists are too. If they could roll back colonisation I'm sure they would. Unlike the large majority who have assimilated our scientifically advanced civilisation, they can hardly be considered “progressist”.

I note with interest that you approve the majority progressists and condemn the minority conservatives.

Strictly speaking, neither one nor the other qualifies as “riffraff”. If anyone does, I’m afraid it is those poor 60,000 British convicts who were deported from their beloved homeland to the penal colony of New South Wales. They alone truly qualified as ““disreputable or undesirable people” – at least in the eyes of the British government and its justice.

But not in ours, ttbn. They were our venerable and admirably courageous forefathers.

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Oops ! I meant to write 160,000 British convicts – not 60,000 !

Sorry about that.

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I'm not an expert on anthropology but I find it interesting...

The map is interesting it shows the Huns (Chinese) invading Europe displacing the Germanic Tribes prior to the Slavs (Euro-Stepes) occupying central Europe from north of the Black Sea creating Moravia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Invasions_of_the_Roman_Empire_1.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period

Yamnaya culture seems to be the proto-Slavic culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Steppe_Herders

These sites give some explanation why people of certain parts of the world have certain phenotypes. British people having recessive phenotypes seem to be related to Germanic people genetically- perhaps this is why Germanic peoples have on occasion aggressively defended their territory.

Lithuanian people appear mainly fair and blue eyed. Slavic people appear to have come from the Steppes and probably have a greater Asian genetic heritage- the Steppes stretch from Mongolia to Europe and Mongolia contains the great horse plains- sounds like a somewhat mobile people in prehistoric times.

Of course peoples of similar phenotypes have gone to war in history.
Britain went to war against Germany in WWI and WWII both being Germanic phenotypically perhaps.

There have been pan-Slavic (mainly Russian) and pan-Germanic movements. As well as pan-Islamic, etc in more contemporary times. Often interesting- code for disruption and often suffering- events have occurred on the borders of these phenotypical zones.

Some of what occurred in The Great Game, The Migrations in Europe, The Roman's, The Pogram's, etc can be seen in the context of a struggle between the Slavic and Germanic (Nordic, British, Dutch) phenotypes and cultures. Interesting the Irish talking of so called Black Irish as being related to the African Slave Trade or the Spanish Invasion.

Sometimes I see this cultural positioning through the lense of phenotypicality- though it isn't the only lense. This cultural positioning seems to be occurring through the vehicle of the Australian National Anthem- of course it would be.

I'm sure that much of what I see is misinterpreted but even in misunderstanding there is often much truth.