If you think of Australia Day–essentially the country’s July 4th–as a great time to throw a shrimp on the barbie and be glad your ancestors were shipped off to Australia instead of getting hanged, then you have it all wrong, according to CNN.
The world would have been better off if your ancestors were hanged.
Well, not your ancestors or mine. But those of the fine folks of Australia. You get the idea.
Decolonizing Australia, by CNN. 😵💫
“It’s Australia’s national day, but the crowd in central Sydney seethes in anger and cheers in solidarity with Indigenous Australians, many of whom view it as nothing but the anniversary of their colonial dispossession.”https://t.co/bp7GO22vCw pic.twitter.com/dGm4I0PS95
— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) January 26, 2024
CNN wants you to know that Australians should be angry that Australia exists because the indigenous peoples…