Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Another Anti-Woke Freak STRUGGLES To Define ‘Wokeness’" video.

Australia here: What you are describing is the HISTORICAL attitude of and excuses made by people here for most of the last 200 years (since white settlement) and I dare say for many other nations. I was in Canada a couple of years ago and the similarities with Australia were stark. New Zealand is similar to Australia as we were both settled by Europeans around the same time and have had similar issues. Like many other societies were are trying to move on and repair the damage done, but just as other places we to have these types of conservative (or regressive) people who just won't see that the rest of us are moving on. In general these are people who of whatever reason are afraid of change and it really is fear. Some are afraid of losing power (political or otherwise) and others just change itself, while for some it is an ideological issue. What is in Australia's, Canada's and New Zealand's favor is that we have at least started down the path to reconciling our past and not too many countries can say similar. Maybe we have a slight advantage in that our colonial history is more recent in terms of time scales as it only goes back around 200 to 300 years (a bit longer for Canada). For many others they have a lot more history to reconcile. We sometimes forget that the Jews, Egyptians, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Romans,.... etc have complicated histories going back at least 3,500 years (1,500 BCE) and in some cases much longer. If you don't know the references recently made regarding Amalek by certain Israelis references events in the Eleventh Century BCE (which is over 3,000 years ago).
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@richardferguson6893 I can't disagree with that because if you look at what I am saying I agree with you. YES we (Australia, Canada, New Zealand,....) are NOT doing everything that we could or should be doing and there are some terrible things still going on. BUT COMPARED to other countries we are doing better because at least we are doing somethings. That doesn't give any of us any reason to be proud of what we are doing because there's still so many bad things still happening. Its like saying on test you get 4 out of 10 and the passing grade is 5 out of 10. 4 out of 10 is still twice as good as 2 out of 10 BUT ITS STILL A FAIL. SO I am NOT CLAIMING that Australia, Canada or New Zealand gets a passing grade. I am saying that we are at least doing better than most. Consider the situation of the Uyghurs in China, the Palestinians, the Yezidi's who were massacred by ISIS in Iraq or even the native tribes in the USA. Do you know that some native tribes in the USA and its territories were used medical experiments and nuclear testing? Go look up the Bravo nuclear test for people on the surrounding islands. Even decades later the US government refuses to accept what happened.
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@SuperStrik9 I was in Canada in late 2017 early 2018 doing a project in Saskatchewan. At the time they were dealing with (among other things) the girls who'd simply disappeared and it wasn't a small number. Some of the issues like that were eerily similar to things we'd had in Australia. What separates Australia, Canada and New Zealand from many others is that we are at least TRYING to resolve these issues. If anyone asks "could we do better?" The answer is YES, we could always do better just like we could be doing better in many other issues with human society. But at least on these issues we are trying.
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