Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Indigenous documentary releases at ‘dangerous’ time for Australia" video.

@JohnnyRingo-c5v I know of no attempt or document that denies the use of cannibalism amongst indigenous Australians. My understanding was it was mainly used on babies and small children as a means of population control. You would have to reference the data you refer to for me to evaluate it. Are you suggesting civilised cultures are not brutal. I might point out the thousands of Palestinian children dismembered by Israeli bombs or the thousands of German children burned to death in the firebombing of Dresden by allied Air forces. I could go on, how about the strapping of nail bombs to intellectually disabled girls and sending them into crowded markets by the Taliban. Yes cultures can be brutal, good point, as to what that proves escapes me.
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So human cannibalism was and has been practiced on every continent and by just about all cultures. In the famines in Europe of the 1930s it was common. Human sacrifice is again common to many cultures. What exactly is your point? Other than your ignorance and vacuousness.
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@Stew-D1987 Just factually incorrect. Indigenous groups in Australia had laws. They were different to English common law, and are recognised as Aboriginal customary law by state and federal governments. So I'm afraid your narrative of indigenous life pre 1788 is completely false. Who was punished for the fire bombing of Tokyo in WWII. The architect of that, Curtis LeMay admitted publicly it was a war crime, he just happened to be on the winning side.
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As usual 109 comments and almost all of them racist in some form. Good on you Skynews.
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@Stew-D1987 The ignorance of indigenous culture you display is astounding. Indigenous customary law is recognised by all state and federal parliaments. Indigenous Australians didn’t have a written language they used oral traditions and songlines as a means of communicating and education.
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@leekane6681 Your kidding me yeah. Are you that ignorant you didn’t know indigenous Australians didn’t have a written language they used oral traditions and songlines as a means of recording information. I’m not suggesting it was perfect, but I am suggesting the sheer ignorance and stupidity of your question.
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@leekane6681 Well I don't have much interest either, as you can tell from my name my cultural background is entirely British, but I at least have the decency to understand and have some knowledge of indigenous culture. Not dismiss it out of hand as we did when we wrote our constitution. Racist document 101.
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@Stew-D1987 No, I didn’t say that or even suggest that. I merely corrected you on the claim Indigenous Australian didn’t have any laws or customs relating to how a Neolithic group functions. The systems you mentioned are not required in a Neolithic type system as the group sizes are relatively small. This was exactly the same in Europe at a similar stage of development. English common law didn’t just materialise in isolation it evolved over thousands of years from ideas from Mesopotamia and the Greeks right through to the Romans. I just don’t understand what you are not getting about this!
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@fionaforward3358 It is a well documented and historically accurate that Mercassan traders used the Northern parts of Australia to gather sea cucumber from 1700 onwards 70 years before Cook. There is conclusive archaeological evidence of this. You are completely mistaken and need to read some history literature. Read down through the numerous racist comments. I can easily pick out many, if you can't then that says more about you, than anything else.
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@JohnnyRingo-c5v oh I forgot to mention one other civilised act of modern western society. The Germans in WWII managed to slaughter more children in 5 years than the entire indigenous people of Australia could manage in 65000 years. Yeah indigenous culture was brutal, I’ll take their brutality any day than Poland in 1942.
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@JohnnyRingo-c5v I didn’t suggest that, however superior you feel to indigenous people they did have customary law, and had some understanding of the laws of physics. Obviously no enlightenment took place, however this was something that happened in Western cultures over a period of time and not in isolation. The indigenous people of Australia were isolated from the collective gains of technology and philosophy afforded to Europeans who fed of each others ideas. Indigenous people in Australia have scientists, authors, poets, teachers, and academics and have been forced to accept Western culture in a relatively short time frame.
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@Stew-D1987 Now you have just stepped into straight out racist abuse.
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@Stew-D1987 Wars between different groups have as i understand it existed for the entire history of humankind. You can't seriously be arguing that the existence of warfare precludes the existence of laws, because that is just silly.
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@Stew-D1987 That simply isn’t what the data concludes. Once again indigenous culture relied on traditions (laws) and oral histories in the form of songlines to maintain knowledge. I understand you are unable to understand this because clearly our western education system has failed you. Not your fault.
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@OldBismarck Certainly not wilful ignorance.
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@JohnnyRingo-c5v No i didn't say superior, i suggested you think English common law is superior, i would say different and yes i am comfortable with English common law i wouldn't describe it as superior though.
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@daleeustice9108 FYI, during the Depression and famine in Europe in the 1930s cannibalism was common. Read some history! and don't be so obviously bigoted, try and be a little more subtle.
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@Stew-D1987 Yep that’s right civilised society worked out how to gas millions of people to death and vaporise tens of thousands with one bomb. Once again your bigotry is on open display. Any chance you could be a little more subtle?
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✔One idiot racist reply.
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