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theferocity.bsky.social • 2 days ago

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As an Australian i am continually bowled over by the ongoing racism in US.
Black history month has shown me so much.
May you prosper and carry the light with you.

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marvelwitch.bsky.social•2 days ago

janetmorris.bsky.social•1 day ago

@profmdavis.bsky.social the work never stops.

slothandenvy.com•2 days ago

Uh.

triplingual.bsky.social•2 days ago

(Not the point, but how did you get the italics? Or os that just my new BlueSky client?)

theferocity.bsky.social•2 days ago

I… did?

metsfan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably the bluesky client. Using... markdown?

triplingual.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ah, I see. That's what I meant about my new client. I thought it might be this Skeets app formatting based on the asterisks.

oomeerrika.bsky.social•1 day ago

Aussies putting the damn AU in audacity.

joulesbyrne.bsky.social•2 days ago

Australia talking like they don't have a beam in their eye.

joulesbyrne.bsky.social•2 days ago

(was OP being ironic??)

gigiomics.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Aussie Audacity 🤧

maartintromp.bsky.social•1 day ago

What's surprising to me about Australia was the large Croatian population that moved there, including members of the fascist Ustazi. Later, the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood ran terrorist training camps, bombed embassies, and had people ready to fight as Yugoslavia split up in the ninties.

mhurgle.bsky.social•2 days ago

I heard wind-chimes from the wooshing that passes through this person's head.

That's not a good sign isn't it..?

tamaracharese.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like… I’ve been to Blacktown

cousinofdef.bsky.social•1 day ago

yourfavoriteosito.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Every question has an answer.

queenattolia13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah. When I visited Australia, I saw not one aboriginal person after days and days of walking all over Sydney and Melbourne. Not one.

Aeotearoa (NZ) was different. Many Māoris and other indigenous folks everywhere.

Yeah.

tucksabroad.bsky.social•1 day ago

It would be worth reading up on why Indigenous Australians may not look like a tourist might expect. Have a look at the Stolen Generations. There is not one way of looking Indigenous so you may have seen many Indigenous people and not clocked it.

queenattolia13.bsky.social•1 day ago

You mean they looked white? Of course. Still think it's weird that I never saw one identifiably aboriginal person anywhere I went in AU.

One sees Polynesians all over NZ and Hawaii.

ksgold.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did you go to Darwin or anywhere in the Northern Territory? I saw quite a lot there.

queenattolia13.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, in the hinterlands. I know indigenous Australians do not feel they own the land, but I do think there used to be a lot of them in Sydney & Melbourne (& not just ones with 1/16th indigenous blood) before being "relocated" to the worst places in Australia.

queenattolia13.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry; I was once scared by Peter Garrett. 😉

magicalblackkae.bsky.social•2 days ago

sezneg.bsky.social•1 day ago

Australia racism is when you are racist, but also use the C word like a comma.

banannav.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm from Georgia, and the racism I witnessed in Sydney was next level. 😒

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marcea.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Indigenous Australians would like a word . . .

sorayanadiamcdonald.com•1 day ago

Melbourne is so racist it made me homesick

roxanegay.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s so racist down under and up over.

lucyfosternelli.bsky.social•1 day ago

I saw your Melbourne show where you were warmly welcomed; but this is how you really view us? I think you know the OP is one view and not exactly representative

roxanegay.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Both things are true. Just because I have a lovely audience in Australia doesn’t mean the country isn’t racist. Do you even hear yourself? Have you ever talked to a black person about their experience there? My goodness.

jazzisblue.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Your response is the perfect example of the combined arrogance and cluelessness of racism. Same with people in America who dismiss racial injustice as identity politics or lump it into class warfare.

Must be nice to have that luxury.

lfresh.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are asking the wrong question and the wrong person australia's racism problems.

lucyfosternelli.bsky.social•23 hours ago

During her Melbourne show RG exhibited an understandably shallow knowledge of Australia. She is in no position to judge us, same as the OP who opined cluelessly about racism in the US. Both are great immigrant countries with unique problems

meemawblinkie.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I think you need to ask yourself why you're jumping to talk down to Dr. Gay about her actual real life experiences. As you said, she was literally there.

Seriously -- why was your first reaction "nuh-uh!" instead of listening?

fierceweebadger.bsky.social•23 hours ago

As an Australian-American who has lived extensively in both places, her judgement of “us” is actually spot on.

roxanegay.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I am absolutely in a position to judge. You’re mad because what? And now I have a shallow understanding? You are revealing your own racism. The idea that I should what? Be grateful for being treated decently which is what everyone deserves.

zephhowell.bsky.social•23 hours ago

You're a fuckhead. Australia is incredibly racist, maybe ask any non-white person, any international student, any recent or generational immigrant.

Ask me how I know. And ask me how I know you're white as fuck and live in a Melbourne, the central wankhole of the country?

mokie.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Not even refuting the racism - just angry that an American commented on it?

kathryntewson.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Lollllll

drkevguitar.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The people who get to judge are not the people doing the racism. That’s a rule that applies everywhere. Australia is in every way as racist, with as disgraceful a host of state racism and atrocity, as the US, Canada, Britain and Europe.

cjayconrod.com•1 day ago

What I'm learning is every time a white person from another country is appalled by the racism here, they're usually oblivious to the racism happening in their own country.

lfresh.bsky.social•1 day ago

exactly

gbrockell.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Having a flashback to being 20 in Australia and a French guy informing me how Americans are racist for mistreating indigenous people.

Me: Correct. Also, Algeria—

François: Zat’s different.

erichaywood.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is there another Australia I ain’t know about?

thedanib.bsky.social•2 days ago

hannibaltabu.bsky.social•1 day ago

This skeet brought me great amusement.

mia-ironeyes.bsky.social•2 days ago

I mean, they're not wrong, but

gwopiton.bsky.social•1 day ago

MAAAAAAAAN

iboji.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who is going to tell them because the consistency with which the sundown sisters international contingent thinks they are less racist continues to baffle me

rowyourbot.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not likely but it is possible they thought ‘the US is less racist than Australia’ and now read some eye-opening things to see the US is every bit as racist. If you didn’t know much about actual US you may think ‘hey, in American blockbuster movies, presidents and generals and CEOs are often Black…’

aurelia-nicole.bsky.social•2 days ago

Like we both can’t point at England and say “I learned by watching you!”

jrobie.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It's always easier to notice the mote in our brother's eye because we're used to the beam in our own.

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