📣 In times like this where politicians & billionaires want us to be scared and divided, we need to be in solidarity and united! Our words matter. Stop using #DangerousNarratives on climate and migration!
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“Our existence doesn’t negate theirs”
“Australians are in no way dismissed by acknowledging the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders... to say I love this country in the same way Aboriginal people do...”
#FODI #DangerousNarratives
#race #racism #whiteness
Most Australians don’t read constitutions, history
Australians aren’t politically literate enough to engage in these discussions
This is eerie given the current changes in #highereducation 😳
#FODI #DangerousNarratives
Liberal democracy preference individualism
Is out capable of recognition of collective people?
Great question from #StanGrant at #FODI
#DangerousNarratives
Reminds me of Prof Bruce Pascoe’s recent webinar via UTS
The selfishness at the heart of #capitalism #patriarchy
“Your rights are washed away on the tides of history”
Me: I don’t think enough historians and archaeologists think about this in their work
#FODI #DangerousNarratives
#history #ancienthistory #archaeology #edchat
#race #racism #whiteness #criticalracestudies
If they give constitutional recognition to us, then they acknowledge the enormity of their crimes
The cunning of recognition (property rights + prove it)
#FODI #DangerousNarratives
#race #racism #whiteness
#colonising #history #paper #language #Western
#CrimesOfColonialism
