Declaring a people's culture as being worthless, is one step before declaring the people themselves as worthless, and open to extermination. Of course our forum racists will tell you they are no such thing, just pointing out the facts, all negative of course. The real racists are the "do gooders" who can't see the truth.

Foxy, dose this mob remind you of anyone? That mob took the same attitude towards others, a worthless culture, made up of less than worthless people, open to extermination.

Aboriginal artists have one thing to thank the Europeans for, acrylic paint and it comes in traditional colours or, if ones traditions are more modern it can be tinted.to your desired hue at the paint store.

Is Mise,

You asked about Aboriginal Art and a link?

I gave a link in my previous post.
However, here it is again:

http://kateowengallery.com/page/10-facts-About-Aboriginal-Art

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Dear Paul,

History is clear about the brutal treatment of our Indigenous
people by white settlers and how their population was
drastically reduced through violence, the introduction of
diseases, and the prevention of access to land that had
provided them with food and resources.

The introduction of alcohol to them was also a disaster.
Many Aboriginals were paid in alcohol or tobacco ( if their
wages weren't stolen) and white settlers also gave alcohol
to Aboriginal people to pay for sex. In the early 1800s
the white settlers found it amusing to ply Aboriginal men
with alcohol and encourage them to fight each other.

Knowing their sad history should make it even more incredible
in how patient and tolerant our First Nations people have
been and still are. We can learn so much from them and
their connections to the land and each other.

There's so much to learn, respect, and try to understand.

Of course the benign racism toward the aboriginals is generally harmless. If the anxiously gullible want to believe that dot art is an ancient form of expression it does no one any harm and creates a new industry. If the woke society wants to believe, in defiance of all historic knowledge, that aboriginal society practiced welcome-to-country ceremonies, then so what, it provides a few carpet-baggers with employment and gives those who buy into it, the warm inner glow of honouring what they think is highly significant ancient traditions - traditions going back a whole 50 years!!

After all, this whole thing is just a SBS marketing campaign to try to assert that they are relevant in modern society. While they'll rope in the gullible, no serious policy-maker is ever going to fall for the daft notion that aboriginal society has anything to offer modern education, for example. So a bit of woke marketing with no harm done.

But sometimes this benign racism as practiced by the likes of Paul and Foxy does have evil consequences. As I've mentioned many times before, domestic violence is rampant in the aboriginal community with native women 35 times more likely to be hospitalised due to DV than their non-native counter-parts. That is bad. What is worse is that the woke society turns a blind eye to this so as to not appear racist toward native men and not draw attention to the highly misogynistic nature of aboriginal 'culture'. When governments prepare anti-DV campaigns, aboriginals never feature. DV funds rarely go to stopping it in aboriginal communities. While there is strident efforts to re-educate urban white boys about misogyny, no such campaigns are aimed at their black counterparts.

So while the feel-good racism of the woke is generally harmless, for aboriginal women that isn't the case.

And still the 'Aboriginal uber alles' crowd avert their eyes.

There's a lot of talk about how aborigines were treated in the past - well before the time of anyone living today. But, all that is irrelevant to anyone connected to aboriginality now. All Australians have had opportunities provided by governments - nothing to do with individuals or their attitudes and opinions, apart from the fact that their taxes are paying for it. Some Australians, black and white, have decided not to avail themselves of those opportunities. That's a fact of life: certainly nothing that will be changed by a bunch of sanctimonious do-gooders and know alls who don't have to do anything but criticise and blame other people for a small section of society’s self-destruction through laziness, stupidity or lack of interest. If people would just shut up, mind their business and accept that most of these no hopers will continue to survive, happy in their own way, on a little bit of dole money, we wouldn't have to listen to boring bullshite about problems that will never be fixed.

The Biblical myths of creation in Genesis developed from the Stone Age culture of the ancient Hebrews. The Aboriginal myths of creation in Dreamtime developed from the Stone Age culture of the ancient Aborigines.

Both myths are beautiful, but they are products of primitive minds trying to make sense out of a world they inhabited but did not have the tools to understand. We can accept that both myths are beautiful stories that are no longer useful in understanding the world we live in. Christian missionaries were unreasonable in demanding that Aborigines accept the Biblical myths and Christian superstitions rather than their own.

Now we have the sciences of astronomy, paleontology, archeology and other disciplines based on scientific evidence. From those scientific disciplines we are pretty sure that the universe began 13.72 billion years ago, planet earth 4.5 billion years ago, life on planet earth 4 billion years ago, hominins 6 million years ago, Homo 2 million years ago, anatomically modern humans 300 kya (thousand years ago), behavourally modern humans 100 kya, settled agriculture 10 kya, cities 5 kya. Let us recognize that those Biblical and Aboriginal myths are Stone Age creations and move into the modern world together.