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minus-squareMindSkipperBro12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoDidn’t know Australians still had slavery so late in history.
minus-squareLavaPlanet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThey didn’t even class indigenous Australians as people, until late 1960’s. They were considered fauna.
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoThat’s a myth that needs to end. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650
minus-squareFloufym@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoIs it ? Australia hold a référendum this year to give a bit more rights to native people. They voted against it.
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoYes? I am Australian. And the vote wasn’t about rights, it was about representation.
minus-squareFloufym@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoYou can use the wording you want, Australia is a racist country that shows no respect to the native people.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialMlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 months agoFormally, it wasn’t slavery. Effectively, it was.
minus-squarePoop@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI’m seeing chains on necks, looks like slavery to me. Even if they were prisoners, that is inhumane. Fucking greasy to think it’s so close to recent history.
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 months agoAmerica still had slavery in the 1940s when the last slave was freed (might’ve been later than that) and it still has slavery in the form of prison labor
minus-squareSokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoChina still has slavery today.
minus-squareraynethackery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoCan you tell me more about that?
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoHere’s where I got this information, it’s a long watch but well worth it. video
minus-squareImmersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agoHis videos are really detailed, fact based and eye opening for sure.
minus-squareGoldELox@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·11 months agohahahahaha you think this is late???
Didn’t know Australians still had slavery so late in history.
They didn’t even class indigenous Australians as people, until late 1960’s. They were considered fauna.
That’s a myth that needs to end.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/fact-check-flora-and-fauna-1967-referendum/9550650
Is it ? Australia hold a référendum this year to give a bit more rights to native people. They voted against it.
Yes?
I am Australian. And the vote wasn’t about rights, it was about representation.
You can use the wording you want, Australia is a racist country that shows no respect to the native people.
Formally, it wasn’t slavery. Effectively, it was.
I’m seeing chains on necks, looks like slavery to me. Even if they were prisoners, that is inhumane.
Fucking greasy to think it’s so close to recent history.
America still had slavery in the 1940s when the last slave was freed (might’ve been later than that) and it still has slavery in the form of prison labor
China still has slavery today.
Can you tell me more about that?
Here’s where I got this information, it’s a long watch but well worth it. video
His videos are really detailed, fact based and eye opening for sure.
hahahahaha you think this is late???