>>674720The only reason Australia day is such a big issue for indigenous people, to begin with is because they've been totally assraped by poverty and demoralized to an absolutely crushing extent and with the absence of a movement capable of making real concrete demands for economic/political autonomy they are being dominated by narcissists, grifters & pety bourg rootless cosmopolitans claiming indigenousness whose politics are influenced by the CIA controlled media towards safe, meaningless, publicly divisive demands which just get people upset on both sides & even if they did come to pass would do fuck all to actually improve the lives of Indigenous people. There is a reason media on "both sides" of the politically correct CIA controlled discourse push the issue so hard, and it's it is a dumb nothingburger issue which will never be resolved but which can reliably be utilized in order to rile dumb grillpilled normies, richkid rootless cosmopolitans (lefty & young libs alike) & Twitter addicted neon hair BPD whores up at each other over a nonsense issue rather than fighting for actual concrete material demands which could actually improve the lives of indigenous people.
>But muh trauma associated with invasion dayThe day is awful for them not because of some mystical connection to the date but because their day by day living conditions are fuck awful, most of them are in assfuck poverty and hopelessness, and seeing society celebrate the day that their people were obliterated and this entire shitshow began is upsetting. The solution isn't to "change the day" which literally achieves nothing. The solution is to totally change the conditions which aboriginal people have been forced into, to improve their lives in real way, to allow them the basic political/economic autonomy to be able to self actualize as a people in dignity & to build themselves up rather than to "gift them" dumb, patronizing hand-out social policies which just lead to a cycle of dependence and worsening destruction.
The reality is that the conquest of Australia was an inevitability long before cook ever set foot here. A population of neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers on a huge, resource-rich continent in a world of hyper-competition dominated by imperialist industrial powers will eventually be conquered and looted bare. This does not excuse the scale or atrocities committed against them as a people, but moralizing aside what happened to them was guaranteed to eventually happen, the most optimistic cut off point from which they could have developed mass agriculture & developed up to a point that they could match the Europeans or Asians enough that they'd have gotten the same colonial treatment based on the exploitation of the indigenous people with a transition into neocolonialism (as in the rest of Asia minus Aotearoa) vs the outright megaholocaust genocidal settler colonialism they were forced to endure was thousands of years beforehand. The idea that the 26th of Jan is the anniversary marking the beginning of their destruction as a people is to this end a total myth to the same degree as the idea that cook "discovered Australia" is.
Moralizing over the past, crying over the horrifying history of what happened achieves nothing. “Punishing” the descendants of convicts and settlers, treating the entire issue as if it’s a problem of some kind of original sin which can only be changed by self-flagellation and performative moralizing achieves nothing. There needs to be a focus on real concrete, material policies which can eliminate the assfuck conditions that these people are forced to endure, give them the means of building themselves up & actualizing independently as a people with dignity. Do this and you're going to see trauma and upset over the date disappear very quickly.
As for what could be done, one example I’d advocate for would be an autonomous region or state within the interior (carved out of WA, NT & SA) with its own independent parliament (one with a minimum 60-70% indigenous membership), security force + ownership of natural resources, etc within its boundaries, basically akin to an ASSR or if you want to sell it to grillpilled normies in a way they can relate and which isn't associated with big scary political language, Wales or Scotland within the UK. Just eliminating the assfuck poverty & allowing them to build for themselves a sense of human dignity is going to go a long way on its own though.