Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

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Oh it’s not just us.

UK, and Canada have sordid pasts as well.

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UK

Where do you think the US learned it from?

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Where do you think Australian colonialism comes from?

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I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, MOM AND DAD! 😭😭

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You can throw the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese in there too

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You mean… the UK. Given that the USA, Canada and Australia were all British colonies, ergo the same past.

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Yeah but no because we are talking about today and not the 1700s.

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“sordid pasts”

“bUT WE’re tAlkiNg aBouT TodAy!”

🤦 goddamn you’re an idiot.

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Yeah but this is the present.

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Canada is actively shitty to their indigenous people.

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I’m from the UK so I can vouch that the government are actively shitty to it’s not rich people.

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As is the US. Let’s have a threesome!

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It could be ignorance, but as a Canadian of European descent, I’d have claimed we were passively shitty more than actively shitty.

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And that is why I am soo embarrassed, and shocked, and dissappointed, and

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Pretty much any white person who doesn’t live in Europe is guilty of these atrocities.

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That’s not how generations or guilt works.

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