Oh how virtuous of you , feel better now do we, this has zero to do with skin color , if you own a rental property you own an investment that you bought to make money, you buy in the best area you can for rental yield and home price appreciation , all decisions you make will reflect on your return, it has zero to do with being self entitled or white as you call it, i guarantee you that if you had Indian or Chinese owners of a rental properties they also would baulk at renting to an aboriginal family unless they knew them personally ,same for renting to a white family you thought would be detrimental to your property , is it racist or is it a decision based on what you know and have seen, call it what you like but its their hard earned investment property, keep your head in the sand if you like but truthfully that bias was earnt.
As for invasion is there a deadline on when that excuse is shelved?, it was 250 years ago, many generations yet you point to it like it was 50 years ago, if you dont have a limit that means we can all Demand reparations from Denmark, Norway and other Viking countries, plus Italy and Germany but we dont, we got on with it.
I asked wife has worked with QLD police for 28 years now if she thought anybody in the police force would rent to aboriginals and it was a definite no way, not because they are racist but because of what they had encountered , an investment decision based on what they knew.
This country was always going to be settled by another nation, the govt has bent over backwards to lift the lives of our indigenous people at great cost , perhaps a little lifting from them to help themselves would go a long way, i have great mates and work mates who are aboriginal and they themselves are scathing of much of their fellow people and their behavior.
You said you would not respond to this thread again and maybe you shouldn't have , the thread had died and was conducted with good manners mostly but then you post your virtue signaling essay on your shock horror reaction to something 80% plus of rental owners would think, your head is in the sand.
This is probably the most disapointing thread I have ever read on The Pride.
It actually saddens me.
To think that there are some people who to this day will still stereotype and make massive generalisations based completely on skin colour is quite horrific. It's the 21st century and we still have self entitled white people saying they would not rent a house to Aboriginals because of their race.
I hope GI, AJ and Cody never need a rental from these people.
Similarly these same people use the lame argument of "what would have happened if the Spanish had invaded instead of Britain, it would have been far worse".
That's a little like saying to someone "well, I may have cut your arms off but just be grateful I didn't cut your legs off too, that would be worse".
What this thread has clearly displayed is that as long as we have racist bigots sprouting their disdain for the indigenous and refusing to see how they have been wronged in so many ways, and are still suffering from this bigotry, we are a long long long way from genuine reconcilliation.
Sadly it will not be until the majority of white Australians acknowledge the invasion, and that we are all benefiting from stolen land, that we will be able to move forward with genuine unity.
That's all it will actually take, some acknowledgement and then discussion about how best to move on.
But as I said, we are a long way from being that mature and understanding. It's just easier for some to ignore the black history of this country and continue with their racism and lumping all indigenous people into the labels of "they" and "them".
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