By the way, Australia wasn’t invaded by the British, it was infiltrated. This actually makes a lot of difference to what happened, once you know what the technicalities amount to.

Re “invasion”. I don’t think it was for most aborigines, although for some it might have been. Invasion suggests images such as armies charging up the beaches or large formations riding over the plains with drawn swords killing left and right, and burning anything they could. The settlement of Australia really seems more like the gradual migrations of peoples into Europe over the millenia in which there was certainly some local violence, but which usually involved one culture outperforming and replacing another.

Winston: I recently read an amazon review of Capitalism and Freedom. The reviewer whined that a “privileged white male” had no business telling us what Freedom meant. The reviewer was himself a white male and went on to recommend we read “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein, who is a White Woman.

It’s great that occidental people on the whole have mostly woken up to the stupidity that is racism. That is no excuse for being an ignorant fool who goes off half-cocked with a half-baked opinion straight from somebody else’s mouth. That’s exactly the kind of nonsense that led to racism in the first place and does nothing to close the gaps of disparity in income, education and health. Thankfully the cure is so easy that even your typical lazy lefty thinker would be able to do it: Leave people the hell alone.

Celts are red

Didn’t you get the memo? It’s not racist if directed to white people.

the soft bigotry of low expectations.