I mean, isn’t this the story of every place Europeans colonized? It’s the inverse of the Eurocentric narrative of where people indigenous to their native lands would be without white colonialism. Cultures existed before they were “discovered”. But whiteness has always assumed everyone wanted 1/
Michael TaylorThe next time someone argues that the Aborigines “did nothing with the country for 65,000 years”, instead of arguing back I will keep my answer simple: “Unlike the white fella, they looked after the place.” theaimn.net/what-if-the-...
