It is racist to assume that a person's beliefs are inherent to their race and hence it is racist to assume that all Aboriginal people have the same religious beliefs, or namely, the same objection to people climbing this rock. There is no such thing as a "racial belief", and indeed, pre-contact the Aboriginal population of Australia consisted of a variety of distinct, if correlating groups, the majority of which... (continued)
(continued) had no relationship with Uluru, perhaps not even an awareness of its existence. And yet the discourse surrounding Aboriginal affairs in Australia is quick to group the entirety of this diverse range of people together, and indeed, deprives many contemporary Aboriginal Australians of their right to be acknowledged for the modern, non-superstitious people many are. The objection to climbing the rock is purely spiritual in nature, and hence need only be observed by believers.
It is racist to assume that a person's beliefs are inherent to their race and hence it is racist to assume that all Aboriginal people have the same religious beliefs, or namely, the same objection to people climbing this rock. There is no such thing as a "racial belief", and indeed, pre-contact the Aboriginal population of Australia consisted of a variety of distinct, if correlating groups, the majority of which... (continued)
GrateGodAlmighty 1 year ago
(continued) had no relationship with Uluru, perhaps not even an awareness of its existence. And yet the discourse surrounding Aboriginal affairs in Australia is quick to group the entirety of this diverse range of people together, and indeed, deprives many contemporary Aboriginal Australians of their right to be acknowledged for the modern, non-superstitious people many are. The objection to climbing the rock is purely spiritual in nature, and hence need only be observed by believers.
GrateGodAlmighty 1 year ago
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GrateGodAlmighty 1 year ago
It's a rock people get over it.
Or more to the point get on it.
fakta15 1 year ago