"It’s not offensive in Australia because we did not systematically travel the world kidnapping people before forcing them to work for no pay on the basis that because they were black they are not really people. If Americans have a problem with it because they used to put on black face paint and mock their former slaves that says everything about them and absolutely noting about us."
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No, but Australians did take Aboriginal children from their homes and put them with white families in something that sounds an awful lot like attempts to “civilize the savage.” Just sayin’.
Still, it’s an interesting argument found in the comments of Hey Hey’s Jackson Jive explain: why we did it
