Willy said:
What you wrote here is a flat out lie, I never said "that no Aboriginal person understands that abuse is wrong"
Why would you lie?
It would have been enough to tell James R that you disagree, and make the point as to why. However, as you've chosen the more political route, we might as well consider what you've said:
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Is it they "don't understand abuse" or they don't care? (
#1482800; topic post)
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Or maybe what white folks consider "sex abuse" is just normal cultural behaviour for Aborigines? (
#1482913)
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I think it has more to do with the different levels of intelligence, of different peoples. (
#1482939)
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If one culture is accepts child sexual abuse as the norm and another culture does not, I would consider the accepting culture least intelligent. (
#1482946)
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And now that same one culture that thought it was OK to come into land where other people had lived for hundreds or thousands of years are still trying to help the Aboriginal people understand what they are doing with their children is sexual child abuse to us. (
#1483528)
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People are first trying to teach Aborigines to understand that the sexual abuse of their children is wrong. (
#1484081)
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I did not say "that ALL aborigines do this or that" nor do I think that .... You are the first to think and write that. (
#1485146)
I'm going to start with the last one. James R is not, in fact, the first to
think that. I, for instance, chose to not write anything about it because I gave you the grammatical grace of carryover from the article in the topic post. Technically, I still grant you that carryover, but I actually doubt its legitimacy; in your topic about
black students, you openly demonstrated that you do not understand this concept, or its importance in conveying information. It seems unlikely, then, that you were consciously relying on a concept you are demonstrably unaware of.
Your next post (#1482913), however, applied to all aborigines. As did the third (#1482939). The application to an entire culture continued unabated (#1482946, #1483528, #1484081). While you never
explicitly said "
all aborigines", also ne'er did you limit your application to "some" until you were called out on the point. The fact is that some
white people don't understand that they are abused or abusing. We certainly do not apply it to
all whites. And, as your feeble reposting of an article excerpt shows, the broader application to cover all aborigines is unjustified.
Attempting to stand on the explicit, in this case, shows a lack of good faith. You could just have easily disagreed with James R, and then the two of you could have decided whether or not to pursue that aspect. However, you chose the political route, and your accusation of lying is simply not supported by the evidence in your posts. That you have asserted against an entire culture does, in fact, mean that you've extended to James R's interpretation.
If I took a poll regarding the appearance of racism in your posts, I am confident of an indictment. However, I consider such a poll to be too directly personal. You're welcome to hop over to the "About the Members" forum, and take the poll yourself. If it is that you legitimately don't understand other cultures, that's fine. But the racist, supremacist presentation you put forward is
not. Please consider Section 5 of the posted
Forum Rules, Regulations, and Recommendations available for viewing by all members and guests.
This community is willing to help you understand, and do so kindly. But as long as you continue this racist push, you should expect resistance from many of your fellow members, and lesser sympathy from the moderators. Playing the explicit card when everyone else can see right through it does you no real good.
