Barkly regional mayor sits on young Indigenous boy while another man threatens to kill him – video [Australia]
Barkly regional mayor sits on young Indigenous boy while another man threatens to kill him – video [Australia]
A Northern Territory mayor is resisting calls to resign after disturbing video footage emerges of him pinning down a young Aboriginal boy
The pretty important context to this video is that the boy in question had allegedly just broken into the mayor's house and he was waiting for the police (see here for a news article about the event).
Thanks, always important to have the context.
Are you trying to tell me buzzy headlines and sound bites aren’t enough to form an accurate, in depth opinion so I can have lengthy discussions with people about complex societal problems and suggest no solutions? How dare you insult my world view
What!?! No! That complicates my emotional response! Damn you and your “context!” Leave me with my clickbait titles and feelings of justified rage! Everyone I disagree with is a reasonless Neanderthal! I am superior and always right!
I think if there was any rage it's because it's a kid and the man is a figure of power. He's supposed to represent the population and it's interests. Basically what I'm saying is, if he made an effort to know the kid maybe he could find ways to help.
When you are a kid doing bullshit do you prefer to be helped to a better path or just plain old intimidaded for no truly decent purpose.
I think we have to find ways to improve help carry the next generation so they can achieve better things. But maybe that's just bc I watch too much anime
I’ve got this strange feeling of relief after reading this guy ISNT from the United States. 😅🫠
JFC news reporting is so far below the bottom of the barrel at this point.
There is no such thing as news anymore, it's all tabloid bullshit just looking for clicks and eyeballs.
Do we write a headline that's accurate, or one that enrages people so they click the link?
Do we write an article with facts in an unbiased manner, or do we cherry pick interesting things that will pull emotional strings and tell people how they should feel about it, so they share the article with their family and friends?
Is it bad that I saw "Barkly" and thought this was an absolutely bonkers story out of one of those towns where they let a dog be the mayor?
Feel like this guy gave in to the darkness. The wheel turns as the wheel wills.
You bet!
If you're not familiar with aboriginal culture generally, the Deadly Stories history timeline and the rest of the site gives a good overview from an aboriginal perspective. Especially for the Dreamtime creation mythology which is a core similarity between different groups.
Bruce Pascoe wrote Dark Emu in 2019 which is a very important book about agriculture and tech that upset a lot of people. I've linked you a page that contains a brief summary plus links to academic responses to it, because it did cause controversy. Apologies for the school-age-centric link, there's a big push in education right now to teach kids about the aboriginal stuff they didn't teach adults, so links to aboriginal science tend to be at this level or uni research papers.
The whole movie about the writing of that book, criticism and backlash is up on ABC iView - The Dark Emu Story if you're keen for something more human that gets into the racism of erasing aboriginal science. A shit VPN might be needed, but I doubt ABC has done much more to geoblock.
Short article on aboriginal engineering, by NITV who cover news from an aboriginal perspective.
Older article on fire as land management by aboriginal peoples with a few pics is a good entry point for that topic. Fire is a huge part of many aboriginal groups, so the idea they didn't have it is frankly ridiculous on the surface.
And just because I enjoy it, this map of the aboriginal groups in Australia. Also because people keep talking about Aboriginal Australians as though they are a monolith. There are at least 250 languages.
Pretty sad their tangata whenua are still treated so badly.
E hoa, you are posting on the World Lemmy, about an Aboriginal boy in Australia. Tangata whenua is known to perhaps 0.06% of the world.
When you dump a bunch of white criminals on a tiny continent and let them breed...
When you introduce two groups of people who have very different backgrounds.
Australians want to burn coal and spread hateful lies in the international media.
Aboriginals didn't even have a way to make fire, write, make wheels, or farm.
Sadly, I'm not surprised that some stupid members of each group will cause trouble where it doesn't need to exist. It's really unfortunate. This major is one of those awful people.
Aboriginals didn’t even have a way to make fire, write, make wheels, or farm.
Incorrect, indigenous Australians used fire extensively for land management. They were the first society in the world that we have evidence of milling seed for flour (36k years ago), they had yam plantations, built stone weirs for fish farming, and a bunch of other things. The reason people believe they didn't is because their way of life was systematically erased and dismissed as 'primitive' by the colonialists.
They didn't use wheels, because many groups used waterways for transport instead. Other groups were on land where the environment wasn't really conducive to wheeled transport.
They also didn't have writing, instead relying on an extensive oral history, as many cultures have.
Please don't spread misinformation.
Australians want to burn coal and spread hateful lies in the international media.
Largely incorrect as well, even if Australians are having issues with their government and the mining/energy industries.
