By your own criteria, this is a bantustan and apartheid.
just like the Arab villages and cities in the West Bank.
By your own criteria, this is a bantustan and apartheid.
Glad to see you agree that Australia is practicing "Apartheid in new shoes", per The Fool's definition.just like the Arab villages and cities in the West Bank.
Glad to see you agree that Australia is practicing "Apartheid in new shoes", per The Fool's definition.
Really? Were they offered housing in downtown Sydney and rejected it in favor of living in a jobless wasteland, or was the only housing for them being built in said wasteland?
Dude, it said right in the quote that the housing was for "Indigenous Australians", and I don't think they mean anyone who was born there.
It's housing for persons of one race, aminority in fact. And it's being built far away from where white folk like you live. By your own criteria, this is a bantustan and apartheid.
Is any government-built houising for Aboriginals being built in Sydney?That's their traditional land, it's where they want to live. Their culture attaches a great deal of importance to that. There are aboriginals who live in cities, too. They would be offended if you called it a wasteland.
"Separate but Equal"?
Sorry, The Fool has informed me on many occasions that this is completely irrelevant when one talks about a Bantustan. According to him, the West Bank is a Bantustan and as far as I know there's nothing stopping Arabs from leaving or forcing them into the West Bank..People were legally obliged to live in a bantustan,
But I suppose it is unfair to compare Israel to Australia. After all, Israel never classified Arabs as wild animals for census purposes, like Australia did for Aborigines as late as the 1960s.
well, the fact that you describe thier traditional homelands as a "wasteland" simply underlines your ignorance and bigotry.Really? Were they offered housing in downtown Sydney and rejected it in favor of living in a jobless wasteland, or was the only housing for them being built in said wasteland?
I know there is nothing as "Far as you know" because your ignorance on this issue appears to know no bounds.Sorry, The Fool has informed me on many occasions that this is completely irrelevant when one talks about a Bantustan. According to him, the West Bank is a Bantustan and as far as I know there's nothing stopping Arabs from leaving or forcing them into the West Bank..
no its notDude, it said right in the quote that the housing was for "Indigenous Australians", and I don't think they mean anyone who was born there.
It's housing for persons of one race, aminority in fact. And it's being built far away from where white folk like you live. By your own criteria, this is a bantustan and apartheid.
In new shoes of course.
The difference between Israel and Australia is rather clear.
One of them is a country founded bycriminalsnon-natives from an imperial power, withno historical or any otheronly a religious and possible 2,000 year old ethnic connection to the place, by ethnically cleansingand killing all the nativesand classifying them assubhuman animalsenemies of the state, and confiscating their land without any compensation and keeping them under martial law for 30 years
Exactly!The gist I'm getting from this back-and-forth is that the discrimination that Israel practices is *slightly* different than the discrimination that Australia, the US, and Ireland practice. So Australia, the US, and Ireland are A-OK, but Israel is still evil to the core.
Exactly!
It'sdoublehigher standard for Israel time again.
Exactly!
It'sdoublehigher standard for Israel time again.