Seeing the discourse in Canada and Australia is awful. Absolutely no acknowledgement of settler-colonialism. They have subreddits (I know, I know) for the countries and some posts were comparing what happened in Canada and Australia to Palestine and it seemed most people could not accept that setter-colonial countries have a stained history.
There are land acknowledgements, then in the next sentence there will be without skipping a beat, condemnation of the people of Palestine. One comment I saw took issue with a statement that had “so called Australia” in it, I believe referring to the fact that these places had names before they were colonized by imperial powers.
Anytime anything Aboriginal is mentioned in the Australia subreddit, the redditors act like the OP just murdered a baby in front of them. The mere thought that Aboriginal people are human and actually have a history is offensive to Australia’s redditors. r/Australia is a cesspit that stands out against the other cesspits, every fucking racist thing you can think of is spoken proudly there, and those who argue against it get banned.
Jesus, yeah that tracks. Not sure if you have seen it, if you mention Romani people (commonly referred to as g*psy) in any Euro-centric or adjacent subreddit you’ll see the mask drop fast.
In some threads, USians will be talking about Romani folks quite reasonably and when time passes and it’s end of work hours for Euros you’ll notice a shift in rhetoric and the mask will drop. Some of the lefter USians will be confused, like, how are these folks so blatantly prejudiced? They really think Romani people are inferior? That they are all criminals?
Practically every European I’ve met has opened the conversation with a “joke” about the Romani. I don’t even think Australia has a Romani population, but it’s shocking how openly awful people will be about them. Like, Australia is a really fucking racist country, but visiting Euros seem to take that as a challenge.
Seeing the discourse in Canada and Australia is awful. Absolutely no acknowledgement of settler-colonialism. They have subreddits (I know, I know) for the countries and some posts were comparing what happened in Canada and Australia to Palestine and it seemed most people could not accept that setter-colonial countries have a stained history.
There are land acknowledgements, then in the next sentence there will be without skipping a beat, condemnation of the people of Palestine. One comment I saw took issue with a statement that had “so called Australia” in it, I believe referring to the fact that these places had names before they were colonized by imperial powers.
Anytime anything Aboriginal is mentioned in the Australia subreddit, the redditors act like the OP just murdered a baby in front of them. The mere thought that Aboriginal people are human and actually have a history is offensive to Australia’s redditors. r/Australia is a cesspit that stands out against the other cesspits, every fucking racist thing you can think of is spoken proudly there, and those who argue against it get banned.
Jesus, yeah that tracks. Not sure if you have seen it, if you mention Romani people (commonly referred to as g*psy) in any Euro-centric or adjacent subreddit you’ll see the mask drop fast.
In some threads, USians will be talking about Romani folks quite reasonably and when time passes and it’s end of work hours for Euros you’ll notice a shift in rhetoric and the mask will drop. Some of the lefter USians will be confused, like, how are these folks so blatantly prejudiced? They really think Romani people are inferior? That they are all criminals?
Practically every European I’ve met has opened the conversation with a “joke” about the Romani. I don’t even think Australia has a Romani population, but it’s shocking how openly awful people will be about them. Like, Australia is a really fucking racist country, but visiting Euros seem to take that as a challenge.